BBV FTW

    The last thing I want is for this blog to simply become another BBV (brag, beats, and variance) thread but variance is the only aspect of the game that is really relevant to my poker life in the last two weeks.

    So, I am in Atlantic City now, finally. I have been playing cash online and now have 3 sessions under my belt at my most commonly frequented poker room at The Borgata. Neither online nor live has been kind to me since my arrival in NJ.

    The other Flux member who is staying out here has been witness to endless beats, coolers and simply laughable spots but I will only subject the readers of this blog to two of the lowlights before I move on.

    My first online session yesterday set the tone for all things to follow in the next 36 hours.  The first 4 big hands of this session were all aipf (all-in pre-flop). AKo loses to AKo when the fourth spade hits the river. AKs loses to AKs when an all diamond board is slammed out. Two flips (QQ < AKo, AKo < QQ) within the next 5 minutes and I am down 4 buy-ins in the first twenty minutes minutes of the session.

    The last lowlight I will subject you to is the last pot of the evening last night which wiped out my entire day's grind. This one still kind of stings so I am going to gloss over it. Basically I have position on and am very deep with literally the worst player I have ever played with.  This is not hyperbole or or exaggeration in any form. I've played with first-timers this bad but never did they reload until they luckbox into a 700 bb stack. Long story short, I flopped a set against her flopped flush and lose a 1.1k pot. Good times.

    After that loss I wished my opponent good luck and headed to the cashier window because I was exhausted and wasn't entirely sure I would be playing my A-game until I had some time to myself. I then realize I have left my phone at the house so I have to use the AC cab service at the Borgata valet instead of my normal company. I get to the house and find out that they are twice as expensive and chalk it up to a taxi-selection bad beat.

    Variance is great for the game. Without it bad players wouldn't play and this game would not be a viable profession for so many people like me. I just hope that I have front-loaded my run-bad on this AC trip because I really want to be out of MU by the time I get to Vegas in the spring and would also like to have a little fun while I am out here. That may be a tall order but I'm going to do what I can to make it happen. That's all for now. Wish me luck in the upcoming weeks, apparently I need it.



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