Tough Going

http://www.pokerhand.org/?2507260

Average at the time was 15k and with top prize the only one worth going for took a gamble which didn't pay off. Turned about a billion outs as well!... Good for 202nd place in the 2100 runner $1 fo for exactly $1 profit.

Was in with a good chance in the $16k gteed ($24 buy in) on tilt. Won a couple of early pots then had a big double up with AA vs AK on a J84 flop. Went to the break with above average stack and folded for the first half hour after the break. Then comes the idiot hand i seem to throw into every tourn. Folded to me on the button with 6k and JQss at 100/200, i make it 600 to go. bb, playing a 4k stack, calls. Flop comes AQx with one spade, he checks i check. Turn is As giving me a flush draw and two pair. He checks and i bet 650 expecting to take it down (no real danger in checking so i think this is the first mistake). He raises to 1800. WTF?, i can't seem to play a hand without getting into trouble these days. After folding for the last half an hour i now find myself in a tough spot. 1150 to call, he has about 1600 back with 3800 in the pot. Fold, call, shove?

I deserved to be outdrawn shortly after calling all in with A9 and losing to A8 to bust in 261st place of the 742 runners.

$8, 1240 player on stars:

Was very patient early on as always, played one hand before the break when my flopped trips in the bb with 67 was paid off by a limped aces. No cards after the break until, with 1700 in the sb with blinds at 50/100 i shoved with TT over a cutoff's raise to 400. Lost to QQ and out in 661st. Another cooler against.

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To go out of the $20k g'teed in 549th place, top 378 paid. My stack felt a bit big to be shoving at the time but with over 1k in the middle to take figured i may as well add 20% to my stack or, at worst, see all five for the double up. Just a shame to lose another race at a crucial time.

So another four tourns there with all my luck coming in the $1.10 multi for a monster cash of $2.10

Good times.