Monday, June 18, 2007

Ran bad today

I played the $2500 6 handed event today, and all I can say is that I played pretty well and just ran pretty horrific. My first table was full of nobody's and I ran my 5k stack up to 7k in about 20 minutes with some aggressive play. Then, all of a sudden, this german kid who was being very quiet just starting killing me. He was two to my right and so he had position on me every time I was in the blinds. A got in a few confrontations, one of which I repopped him in the big blind with TT and he shoved over my continuation bet on J84 two diamond board. He had right around 7k in chips as well, so this was a huge shove. I knew he was a solid player and I felt he was trying to represent a a draw but really had a big hand like a set. I layed it down but it kind of tilted me, which I haven't really done much while playing live. From here, I spewed more chips to him while trying to get revenge, and before I knew it, I was down to 2800! I managed to battle back to 4500 and then took out a short stack with QQ and was up to 6k at the first break. My table busted and I got moved to a table with Steve Bilraikis and John D'Agostino, but JDags busted pretty quickly and complained about never having cards. I managed to chip up to about 10k by just restealing this guy's button raise for like 4 straight orbits. My table again busted and I got moved to a table with a boat load of chips. As soon as I sat down, all the players told me about how that seat had seen quite a few victims, but I vowed to change that. About 4 hands into the table, a short stack shoves for 5k and I look down at AA and instacall. He flips up A6 and is all but killed. The flop comes 245, which is like top three worst flops for my hand, and turn is obviously the 3 giving him the straight to the six and leaving me with 4 chop outs only. I missed and was cut in half. I managed to shove steal some blinds and got some guy to lay down an Ace with my k5 shove and was back up to around 8.5k. About three hands later, UTG+1 raises to 1200 (blinds 200/400), I call right behind with AJd, and the two players behind me call, making this a huge 4-way pot. Flop comes AJ2 rainbow. It checks to me and I bet 3k of my 7.5k remaining stack and get called by the small blind. Here, I know he either has another Ace or a set of 2's. The turn brings another 2, making a set of two's look slim, and he pushes me in. I call and he flips over A9, which means he has no possible way of winning the hand. He does have two chops outs, which are the tow 2's left in the deck. Sure enough, another #$%$^%# two falls and I'm now only at like 10.5k when I should've been at 22k, but that's poker. We were also only like 90 people from the money, so I would've been in great shape. After a short break, blinds kicked up to 300/600 with 75 ante, meaning it costed 1350 each orbit. My 10k stack quickly dwindled to 8500, where I then shoved 66 and was called by AJ. I almost got up and walked away then because I knew that if I couldn't fade two outers, I had no chance in hell of winning a coin flip. The door card was an A and was followed by a J and I somehow missed my two outer and was busto. I told everybody good luck and then took my bag of pretzels and did the walk of shame. It really sucks to play well and then get unlucky, but there isn't anything you can do. I am playing the 2k Seven card stud event tomorrow and will probably embarrass myself but I really like playing the game so its more for fun and stress relief than anything else. I have never played the game live before, but maybe if I get some luck, I can make the money.

Also, after telling my dad about today's event, he told me to order a good room service meal on him to make me feel better. I place the order for my food and the operator lady then tells me I can only pay in cash for some reason! So that just summed up today and I am now on some major life tilt...

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