In a downturn. Hopefully it will be shortlived

All the signs are there. Good starters missing flops. Good starters hitting monster flops and losing. Big pocket pairs losing to utter rubbish. Nut straights and flushes losing to fullhouses. I;ve been down this road three times before. There is damn little I can do about it, but fight through it. I've looked at my stats these last few weeks and notice no glaring leaks. I'm simply getting beat while having the best of it. Now I know today my stats show me as not having raised enough preflop, but I had one of those days where preflop raise opportunities were few and far between. I was on some aggressive tables. Tables where I was hitting all kinds of great flops and losing anyway.

• Sun Poker. Here was the only place I had won today, and it was a major feat. I hit the nut flush here on the turn, only to lose when a pair of 7s managed to hit a fullhouse when a 3rd 4 fell on the river/ I was almost ready to leave until that setback. I fought back and managed to clear a 1BB profit.
• Pokerroom. I started up on a roll. Up almost 10BB, I came crashing back to earth swiftly. Hands simply wouldn't hold up to absolute trash hitting wildly lucky outs. Finished down 9BB.
• CD Poker. What a horrible place this is turning out to be. This place is so full of fish. This is what makes it so frustrating. I know I am better than 90% of the players I am facing at $1/$2, yet my results are absolutley dismal. I've lost almost $160 since starting here last week. Nothing was holding up. QQ lost to K5s who cold-called 2 bets twice preflop [capped pot]. Of course, he hit his K on the flop, and that was that. I lost 28BB in 2.5 hours. Dismal.

Today's results: -$60.87

There is also the problem with today's World Cup results. The American team played flat, disconcerted and lackadaisical. The Czech Republic destroyed them 3-0. Add to this a Ghana loss to Italy [a tie would have been a good result here], and the US is already on the ropes. They have to beat both Italy and Ghana for any hope, but losing 3-0 hurts with regard to tie-breakers. At least the German team [my pick on the Pokerroom reload bonus] won their first game against Costa Rica. Perhaps they will light the way?

Take Care!