Now THAT is a downswing!

I started off my bowling league with a real BANG and it has been all downhill since then...

I bowled a 246 in my first game and then a smooth 146 in my second game and an amazing 123 in my 3rd game. Honestly, I don't even know how it is possible to bowl a 123, but I certainly did it. Oh yeah, I also got a totally RANDOM nosebleed during bowling! I was just sitting there talking to Aaron and I felt my nose start to run so I sniffed a bit and reached for a napkin on the table. When I looked back at Aaron I noticed he was staring at my chair so I looked down and there was a drop of blood right between my legs! Anyway, it took me about 5 minutes to get in under control, but I ended up having to bowl one of my frames with a napkin jammed up my nostril. So after I got home from bowling I shaved and as I was washing my face my OTHER nostril started bleeding and it takes me another 5 minutes to get that one stopped. I have always gotten lots of nosebleeds, but Las Vegas makes it even worse with the dry air.

So I went to the Wynn to see Matt, Lynn, and Richard and play little bit myself. O'neal Longston is some geezer grinder that is always playing 10/20 NL and higher at the Bellagio and is WAY too aggressive. He was playing in our PLO game and to make a long story short we got it all in on the turn for about $1,500 a piece and he obviously hit one of his two possible outs on the river to win the pot. I lost another $1400 after that hand and didn't play very well in doing so.

Then, today i was playing online and everything was going just fine. I was playing 3 $600 NL games and 2 $1000 NL games. I was up around $1200 or so when everything that could possibly go wrong did. I lost FOUR buy-ins in about 60 hands time which is about 5 minutes time and of course every one of those buy-ins had to be at my $1000 NL tables just to make it even more painful.

The first hand was possibly avoidable. I re-raised I guy out of the blinds with AJ, continuation bet the flop of all small cards (with two spades), the turn was a King which I thought was a good bluffing chance, I bet the pot which put me all-in and of course he was slow playing AA. Oh well, it happens once in a while.

The second hand I re-raised the same guy with AJs (hearts), the flop was Qh 7h 4x. I am never folding in the spot with so much money already in the pot. Of course he had QQ for top set and we got in all in on the flop. The turn card of 6h made me the nut flush and the river card of 6c makes him a full house.

The 3rd hand was against a player that I had some history with. We had both been playing pretty fast vs. each other and re-raising each other a lot preflop. We ended up getting in all-in preflop with my AK vs. his JJ. I bricked out and lost another buy-in.

The 4th hand was another standard situation where one player is going to lose all of his money every time. I flopped a set of 3's and he flopped a set of 9's on a very dry board.

So I suppose my 246 in bowling was the end of my extended heater. It has been a pretty brutal ride since then. Oh well, I am still playing great and I am sure I will turn it around tomorrow.

Here is my graph from my epic downswing online:

So this is how my week 5 looks now (so sad):

Online: +$319 (10.5 hours)
Live: -$-$2,891 (2 hours)

I haven't really felt like playing too much lately, but having such a bad last 24 hours will probably snap me back into some motivation to get on the grind.....tomorrow.