Running bad but maybe i deserve it...

Hi back again,

Mainly to help myself, i'll be blogging every tournament i play (cricket and poker). I'm currently playing under the name 'pgchips' on tilt and stars. After some success a few weeks ago the last couple of weeks have been very losing. So hopefully talking through every tourn i play will help me see why.

Played two tourns today on tilt, the first a six-handed 220 runner $2 buy in tourn. I was going well in this one thanks to an idiot open pushing tens for 1200 with the blinds at 30/60. Somehow my kings held up. Steadily built up from there until:

55 left, 24 paid, average 4.5k.
Button limps for 100, sb makes up, i check A4 o bb. I check raise the A45dd flop and just button calls. Turn blank so i bet 2100 into 1800, he calls leaving himself 890 back (don't know why i didn't just put him in). Anyway, river was a pretty ugly 2, i put him in and he shows 34dd for the straight. Fair dos. Miss a flopped flush draw next hand drawing very slim vs a higher flush draw to finish in 53rd or something.

Next tourn was a six-handed $3 buy in tourn, 200 runners. First hand i get dealt AK on the button, cutoff limps for 30 and i shove for 1500. (First hand of a tourn people often like to gamble as i could be shoving any two as far as they're concerned. So i thought i'd test this by open pushing.) I get snapped by A7s. Flop comes a nice JJ4, though turn 7 and river 7 sent me out in 200th place.

Now the first hand here is unavoidable i think, could argue he should have folded the turn but nothing i can do about it but the second hand didn't have to be AI pre. If i had played it properly we would have been heads up to a flop and i would have taken down a small one with very little danger and on with the game we go. But should i turn down a chance to double up against someone willing to gamble like that??

Anyway, two tourns no cashes, just the midnight madness on tilt still running, and with someone pushing every hand on my table this could be very good or very bad... i'll let you know.