These past few nights have been two of the biggest roller coaster sessions I've ever experienced. Wednesday night I played for roughly 3 and a half hours. At one point in the night, I was down $860 at the $200 buyin tables on PartyPoker.com. WOW. I was four tabling, so being down 4 buyins is not really a LARGE loss, but it is one I am not used to being a part of. I was taking some incredibly horrible beats. I will not post them on here, but let's just say it was 4 outter after 4 outter after 2 outter. :( Slowly I began to build my stacks back up and actually finished the night only down $104. I played about 900 hands and finished my bonus during the night. So, technically I was down $204 for the night, but the bonus was added to my account so I recorded that I lost $104 on the night.

I was feeling pretty bummed about the session. It's not that I was playing horrible poker.
Whenever you have those sessions that it seems like no matter how well you are playing, you still lose... yeah those sessions suck. Oh well, there is always the next day. Which brings me to.... Thursday late night session. I started play on Thursday at about 1am. In about an hours time I was up about $200. No really big hand, just picked up several small spots and gradually worked my stacks up to about $250 on each table. And then the poker gods must have declared war on me. Just as last night, I began to take beat after beat. None of my good hands held up for about a 2 hour period. It was absolutely brutal. The most I was down was $450, but it definitely seemed like more.

I had a revelation during this session. Four tables is not enough. I decided to fight back with the poker gods and try and decrease my variance. I have played six tables before, but not for an extended amount of time. I wanted to try out six tables for several hours and see if I could keep up.

Well, results were pretty good. I climbed out of being in the negative for the session and ended up $640. My biggest win at $1/$2 to date. I played for a total of 6 hours and fifteen minutes. One of my longest sessions in a long while. The session did not end until 7:15 AM. Fun stuff. I sure am glad I do not have Friday classes this semester. :)