Awful Day of Poker

Today was filled with a bunch of bad beats and coolers, with some bad play by me thrown in there. I played the $5k NL WSOP event today and didn't even make it to the first break. My table was pretty tough with Kathy Liebert, Allan Kessler, Danny Wong, and none other than my nemesis Jason Lester. On the second hand, I get 88 UTG+1 and raise to 150, which is then popped to 350 by Lester, which I obviously called. I defined Jason's range as AK, JJ+ here because he is a pretty tight, solid player and would most likely smooth call with a hand like AQ or AJ. Flop came A107 rainbow. I check and he fires out 400. I check raise to 1400, knowing he will fold with over half of that range. He flat calls and the turn comes the 8d. I of course fire out about a 2/3 pot bet which he again calls. Now, I'm positive he either has AK or a set, with the only likely set being AA or TT if my range was too tight. The river comes a 9, making the board AT789, but I knew a Jack or seven was out of the question for his hand. I check and he thinks for awhile and bets 4500, which would leave both of us with 1700 behind. I say to him "I have this bad feeling you have top set" but I reluctantly call anyways, praying for AK, even though I knew he wouldn't try to value bet an AK in this spot. He sure enough had flopped the nuts and I was down to 1700. I float around 1700 for about an hour when I get AK utg and make a 3x raise and get two callers, one of them being Jason Lester. Flop comes Axx, and I check in an attempt to get a bet out there that would be committed to call my shove. Checks to Jason who bets 600, and I shove for 800 more and he calls. He flips AQ and is dominated by my AK until the Q on the river sends me packing. Until we meet again Lester...

I decided to come home and play some cash games and got drilled for 3 buy ins in about 3 hours. My first one went when I flopped top two and a guy flopped bottom set. The second $400 loss was when my AK lost to another AK all in preflop. I don't usually get all in with that hand preflop in cash games, but the action was limp, raise, cold call, I 3 bet for a squeeze, limper and original raiser fold, and cold caller shoves. I know he has no better than a medium pair or a has a hand like AQ, AK so I call. He of course makes a one card flush with his AK and I rebuy. The last buy-in that I dropped came when I 3 bet an aggressive cut off raiser with 44 and he called. I put his range at 77+, AQ+. Flop comes 4s6h2s. I continuation bet and he smooth calls OOP. Here, I put him on an over pair or a big suited A. Turn is an offsuit T, and he checks to me and I value shove, making it look I missed with AK or I have a flush draw and hoping he calls with his overpair. He calls and has JT of spades and naturally hits his 8 outer on the river and I nearly fall off my chair.

So now I'm slightly depressed and going to eat junk food and watch a movie in bed. I might play at like ten or eleven tonight to try and catch the drunk crowd depending on how I feel. The one good thing of news is that I got my sponsorship money today so that was good for the account. Hopefully we can turn this around...