I had a sng earlier and by coincidence, jiffman was in it, I won that particular sng, then proceeded to bubble in the next, against three players whom I had all played before and knew they were morons, they outdrew me and busted me.
eg. one of them calling a 3-4 preflop raise with A9o, against my AK, hitting two pair on the flop and taking half my stack. can't remember how I busted out of that.

I then played a couple more, and have just been continually busted by idiots.
A68 flop, me and another guy are the only ones involved, he pushes all in, I'm sitting there with AK, I call, he flips over A2, turn 2, river 2.

Played a couple more, got my AA cracked by 69o allin preflop in one.

Then played a heads up game. I broke the guy so badly, had him down to 300 chips a few times, he scraped back, we got back to even, via a runner runner flush, and then I picked QQ in the small blind, I minraise him knowing what he'll do, sure enough he reraises it up to 200, I push all in, he calls, he flips over A10, and the flop comes 2,3,8, anyone wanna guess the turn and the river?

This is just bugging me, its happened a few times, its not a run of cold cards, its not bad play on my part, its just pure foolishness getting lucky, and while I know the streaks going to break, does anyone have any advice for how to modify play when your playing chimpanzees that randomly mash their buttons?

It just seems lately, that I can increase my bankroll, but then I hit a patch of grazing donkeys as I drive my tractor across the grass, and their bones stick in the cogs and break the engine.



My sng basic strategy is this: Avoid action the first 2-3 levels, observe the other players, make notes on their play, figure out who I want to get involved with if possible ( Jiffman will attest to this ^_^ ), but regardless of state of sng, I just run into idiots.

So anyway, to repeat the thread title, what exactly do you do when its raining donkeys and you want to escape the eooors.

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