WHY POKER GODS WHY

I had been overdue for a post where I tell another horror story about Party 6max games. So here's another one.

I've been crushing the $5/10 games on Absolute the last few weeks, playing mostly shorthanded and feeling very comfortable. In my previous forays into shorthanded play online I was always confused and disoriented but this time I've been seeing everything pretty clearly. Maybe the sheer volume of hands I'd been playing of low limit fullhanded has knocked some sense into me and given me more feel for the game that I was finally able to translate to shorthanded.

So this evening I decided to spend an hour 4-tabling Party's $3/6 6max game to see if my success at Absolute translated to Party. It didn't. I lost 70 big bets in under an hour.

I'm so completely baffled. There seems to be a heavy consensus that Party's games are the softest around and that Absolute is a bit tougher. So why the hell can I not for the life of me figure out what I'm doing on Party?

I know it could be all just luck. I've run very hot on Absolute and I've taken some pretty devastatingly bad beats on Party. But if it is possible to set results aside and give an unbiased assessment, I feel like the Absolute games are very easy, and I feel completely lost in the shorthanded Party games.

I keep saying that sooner or later I'm going to need to be able to beat Party's shorthanded games. I really thought that I was finally there. And a single terrible session isn't enough to rule me out, but I'm pretty frustrated. Maybe I shouldn't have jumped into 4 tabling. I don't know. I suck at the pokers.