Mommy SAID NO CASH GAMES or wire hangers... EVER!

So as history continues to repeat itself I am left feeling that I should be learning something. I have said repeatedly that cash is not my game (online anyway - live cash I am OK with my ability to smell when I am trouble)

I play a sit and go ... take first.... take the winnings... sit down at cash and loose it all to a paired board when I have the nut flush. No I was not rivered, I was nearly drawing dead from the flop. To the observer named Slurpee Dude who could barely stop laughing and wipe the tears out of his eyes long enough to comment on my terrible play, it was obvious - he in fact thought I must have the full house to make the call - ouch.

Below I described how I was going to play cash. It only marginally worked. Meaning it was a grinders kind of game and I was able to grind up in cash enough to take a big hit when I made an error. Just so that you reading this don't think I am a total donk who cant get away from a hand, here is the recap of the cash session where I lost the whole table:
1) AA - no slow play - on the turn the table goes crazy, I let it go - good fold - two sets out there
2) Turn the Q high flush (three spades on board two in hand) - I bet - when min raised and the third player calls, I let it go - would have been an easy call financially but I knew I was beat - good fold both the King high AND the Ace high flush were out there
3) KK - make it 4x pre flop - one caller - aggressive player, not the guy I want to tangle with at the table given a choice. He call - flop two spades all unders no straight, I bet roughly pot , he calls, turn black, I throw out another pot size bet - he calls. Third spade on the river, I bet he pushes all in, I let it go
4) Now I am down to less than half my max buy in at the table.
5) I have two spades with the A in my hand - flop has two spades, 33K, I stay in to the river hit on the river - he bets 8x blind, I raise to 16x he pushes. Now I have all of 20% of my buy in left - I admit it is a bad call, but I say to myself - how many times am I going to fold on the river to a big bet at this table? So I call and fade away.....

I don't understand (although I know there are differences of course) why I can seem to smell trouble at a sit and go and feel like I got continually hammered when I hit a good hand at cash.

My game is sick - very sick, my wife says I lack the instinct I need for a cash game, in a tourny my ability to calculate the odds, play stack size, position, and the player, have added value. That may be a bit a good technical ability for the game without the instinct would probably hit it on the head

Fold!

After yet another loosing session I am going to completely change my style of play. I am adapting what I am sure are pages out of Dude's book and others that are willing to sit for hours waiting for hands to come to them.
As it stands right now I am not playing :

Suited connectors anymore (not even my beloved Jennifer Tilly (23 suited)
Any suited Ace or King that has a kicker of less than I would play if it were not suited - currently I define that as AJ or KQ
Generally any pair using the Dude call to hit a set with less than 7% of stack method (this still has not worked - I am going to hit a run that will be enough for me to retire when this starts hitting lol)
For the most part these hands will apply to most positions and raises or calls depends on this situation at the time.
I wont call raises pre flop with AJ and situation pending AQ too.
I will likely bet 4x blind with AK

this is a good starting point.
Note: Doing this for two hours now at a 50c cent table sat down with 35$ (again being disciplined to play at what I can afford - although SD would disagree) currently at $62.30 no big hands - nice steady growth - 100% win on pots I went after.

to multi or not to multi

I have a NEED to play for real money, ie I almost always play beyond my bankroll. This must be the largest reason for my dramatic swings in bankroll size. It will take me to a 1000 quick and take it back again too.
I have two goals right now:
1) Use Sharkscope to become a stats whore and care enough about ROI to want to see it climb. Thus keeping me off of stepping up in limit
2) To stay at the limit I can afford I am going to play more tables. My honest preference is to have one or two tables max but at higher limits, but tonight I am going to have four or more tables open - right now as I type this it is one cash (25 cent) and three 5$ sit and go. Two single table and one 45 person tourny. I find it easier to fold what I shouldnt play when pocket AA happens every three minutes.

okay - 2nd in one - bust out other two - no poker play issues though - net (3) - cash flat
AND STILL no sets...

And it begins....

Apprently I need a blog to talk about how much I think about poker... probably not healthy.

I am at a crossroads in my pokerdom. A crossroads with a mack truck parked on my dumb, tilty, call anybody just to see what the fuck they had, ass.

I used to be somebody... I could mattered.

I am not sure how it happened but I hit the same bankroll that Slurpee Dude had and then tanked it.... then Slurpee Dude bought me back in and I was a king making a grand in a week, and then gave most of that away.... Now I am limping along trying to figure out how the highs are so high and the lows are so low.

Current Bank Roll on line... a drum roll please...

$96.00 Full Tilt, $107.00 Noble Poker,
$0.03 Hollywood poker, $10.00 Titan poker, etc. etc. etc.

Yeah sad but true. I have done DEEP analyses of my play, read the books, had the talks with Slurpee Dude, followed his dumb ass advice... and I don't have it yet.

However... I think I am using my limited talent in the wrong way. I think I can get a pretty good read on what a player has and I know when I have him beat. I know how to be agressive - BUT I think that works against me. I think I end up in positions where I know I am good and I make my re-raise and he calls and I am good 80% of the time the cards turn over. But the turn and river get me... why you say? I THINK it could be because I am doing that in positions where I am the favorite but only a 60/40 or 56/44 favorite. I admit I find it tough to not bet when I flop second pair... but you are supposed to last I read.

btw Dude I need to go to bed - oh and I hit a set... Tilly brought me a set of threes, of course his trip kings rolled up tight and placed lovingly in my ass didnt feel so hot.... dumb ass advice ;)