not bad

continue my run of just not playing very much. all the suckouts, coolers and bad beats have really taken a toll. Monday did a $3 omaha tourney and took 4th for $40. No majorly exciting hands to talk about, except I did miss an opportunity to win i think. This assclown at my table was acting like a real schmuck, and started going crazy when i folded a hand with a straight on the board about how stupid I was cause it was a chop. I am just praying it was a level, because if he was genuinely that clueless about omaha and made the FT anyway, that would be just way too highly disturbing for me to handle. Anyway, he was raising obnoxiously almost every hand, one hand I picked up A10Jx sooted, normally playable for me, but i folded not wanting to have to fold to his raise, but this time he limped, and the flop wouldve given me the flush draw and openender, so I could very possibly have crushed him on that hand. But I didn't, and ran QQxx into KKxx preflop. gg

lastnight did another $2 1r1a, finished 17th. Couldnt get much going all night but still managed to get that far, ran AQ into AK preflop, flopped the Q then turned K. gg again.

ho hum

since coming back from break i played 4 times - 7th in a stt when i turned dummy end of straight against flop nut straight. then two 2nds in stts, and the FT bubble in the 2r. so overall not terrible.

did the $2 1r1a. had a very tough spot at one point - called a pf raise with 99, flop came 3 unders, all spades, & I had the 9. raiser bet about 1/2 pot, i minraised. he shoved & sent me into the tank. did he have overpair with a spade? overpair no spade? AsK-type hand? i eventually folded and he told me after the tourney he had AsAx, so good laydown i guess.

looked like i was on my way to cashing until this hand against villain from the other hand...



so sick, and yet so standard, at least for me. i hate poker.

break changes nothing

so after being on vacation for a week and not playing for couple days after getting back, i got back on the FT horse today. did 2 $5 sngs, took 2nd in one against ridiculous luckbox, no cash in the other

did $2 rebuy, in for $10. i was final table bubbleboy, for a whopping $1 profit, and this joke is how it happened after I played damn near perfect poker throughout...

Full Tilt Poker Game #7715868979: $2 + $0.25 Rebuy (58570431), Table 5 - 2000/4000 Ante 500 - No Limit Hold'em - 16:33:37 ET - 2008/08/19
Seat 1: Jlusafer (56,797)
Seat 2: jl131 (44,050)
Seat 4: megowen (26,361)
Seat 5: Dumont 3 (106,018)
Seat 6: biggord (37,725)
Jlusafer antes 500
jl131 antes 500
megowen antes 500
Dumont 3 antes 500
biggord antes 500
Jlusafer posts the small blind of 2,000
jl131 posts the big blind of 4,000
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jl131 [Ac Ts]
megowen has 15 seconds left to act
megowen folds
Dumont 3 folds
biggord folds
Jlusafer raises to 56,297, and is all in
jl131 calls 39,550, and is all in
Jlusafer shows [3c 3h]
jl131 shows [Ac Ts]
Uncalled bet of 12,747 returned to Jlusafer
*** FLOP *** [8d Jc 3d]
*** TURN *** [8d Jc 3d] [Th]
*** RIVER *** [8d Jc 3d Th] [5s]
Jlusafer shows three of a kind, Threes
jl131 shows a pair of Tens
Jlusafer wins the pot (89,600) with three of a kind, Threes
jl131 stands up

unreal. what a ridiculously idiotic shove, and of course i read it right and he had about as much of a hand as i expected, and it still blows up in my face. i want to puke.

the slide continues, sickly

well first there was the rambler series. lost decent size pot when i flopped top pair and LJ called me on flop & turn with 2nd pair & hit trips on river. nice catch. actually had some luck when i caught runnner-runner to bust a shorty. then pick up QQ, flop ace and lose big pot. KK flop ace and have to get away from it. then bust when i raise utg w/KQ, get reraised by LP, it's limit so i have to call, flop Q-high and raiser has AA obv.

then did a sng, here was the crucial hand, which also summarizes how i've been running since getting my acct to high point of $210...



excuse me while i vomit. so unbelievably sick.

now this is just getting ridiculous

so other than winning one 6-handed $5 omaha sng, i have not had a SINGLE cash since pulling off the daily double double-cash. i have been a combination of unbelievably card dead, coolered to death, sucked out all over, and some bad plays on my part. my roll is down from 210 to 140. today's big ones - in omaha i screwed up when i turned quads and didnt let my opponent hang himself, and he ended up busting me when he called my sizable preflop raise w/9956 rainbow, flop 789. genius. gg me

then did $2 1r/1a. built good stack early, then down around 45 players or so it started crumbling - couldnt hit a flop, couldnt catch a draw - nothing. last hand - i raise 3x w/AJ. board runs out 8-9-10-7-J. what does the moron have? QJ offsuit of course. then while i still had the table open, next hand somebody hit a K on the turn w/K8 against shorty allin w/a2 and the clown that busted me got on this guy for being a lucky mf'er. i went BALLISTIC on the shitbag. of course he threw out all 3 classic donkey lines/excuses - 1. well i have your chips, 2. its only $2, 3. let's play HU. i'm outranking the schmuck by 50% on opr so i prob should've taken him up on it but whatever, i cant do that because the reality is the worse someone is, the more they beat me, that's just a fact of my life.

i have got to get this shit turned around, and quick.

next up was the .10 rebuy - my bustout was shoving for 8xBB w/a9 and the bb called with the unbeatable 6-4 soooooooooooted and of course ran out the flush. so fkng disgustingly sick. I will never even begin to be able to imagine the thought processes of these idiots making plays like that.

excuse me while i go jump off another bridge.

bent over by full tilt all day long

$2 180-man. doubled up on the first hand when i shoved w/kk and of course got called by a8 off and magically no ace. held steady, then set the perfect trap to chip up...



absolutely amazing. idiot falls hook line & sinker, and i get fukd.

finally went for the doubleup here, perfect flop, then fukd again...



love open-limping Q4 offsuit obv

Did a $4 token sng, built up good stack early, then donked it off horribly. no sad stories on this one, i played like ass and blew it, finished 4th.

then the $2 rebuy, had good stack for a while, called shorty allin w/a10 and couldnt hit against his QQ, then my AJ got mini-reraised and whiffed flop, and with blinds flying, ended up allin w/ak against ak and 88, nothing for me

on to the early double...

busted out of B early. misplayed a hand where i put opponent on busted draw and called down with bottom pair, then ran JJ into QQ pf obv.

then in A just could not get anything going at all, got very short near bubble and couldnt even find a spot to shove. finally folded to me otb w/J5 sooooted so i shove and major asshole in sb instacalls with a4 off, flop j53, turn blank, river 2 @#$)#@$_!@)$@#_)#!_$@#)$#_@$)_#@

last was $5 stud/8 tourney. this was i think the single unluckiest i've ever been in a tourney. i've had 1 or 2 ridiculously unlucky hands, but this tourney, start to finish, was just the most continuously god-awful luck i've had in one tourney. pretty much every monster draw didnt get there, and got nailed by several 1 or 2 outers against me. my luck in this was so bad that i made the final table, and didn't cash. yep, paid 7 spots, i finished 8th, cause of course i had to make my stand with a 7 low on 4th st when villain had 5 low. of course he caught his low, and paired his ace, while i caught nothing, and bubbled. what a freakin joke.

so after my double cash bonus the other night i was back up all the way to $210, now back down to $171. so incredibly freaking frustrating

double cash

Well after taking down the rambler event the other night and making final tables in 2 $2 rebuy tourneys this week, my confidence is running good, so decided to take a shot at both ends of the daily double for the first time.

very excited to see my cards on hand 1 of the A tourney, but the results made it seem like it was going to be a quick night:



Folding there made me want to puke, but I knew it was what I had to do. I probably should've check-called the river instead of leading out, but once i got pushed in, I knew the chances I was ahead were slim to none, and even though I'd be giving up more than half my stack on the first hand, I felt like I had to try to at least give myself a chance to recover rather than just say screw it and bust.

sure enough, I did recover. i recovered quite well actually, not only cashing but building up a pretty decent stack. At the same time I managed to cash in B also, even though I was relatively card-dead. I just kinda hung around, picked some spots to chip up a bit, and made it through. Busted 91st in B when I ran KQ into A10 and KQ, then 88 into JJ.

Thought I could make a deep run in A, until this:



I thought about whether or not I needed to stack off here, but I dont see how I couldnt. AK shows up here a huge amount of the time to make this a +EV play imo. tough cooler.

But it ended up being a little more than $50 profit for the night with the 2 cashes and $37 bonus for double cash. not bad at all.