Just frustrating …

I haven’t been playing that much compared to the last few weeks. I guess the Wii is really making me play less. Now when I play, I usually play a couple tourneys during the night. Lately it seems I do really good when I just play one tournament at a time. Twice this week that I decided to play a tourney without doing anything else, and in both of these tourneys I was chip leader for a couple hours. Then once I make the money, I start running bad and finish before the FT. I did that in the 55$ 1R 1A on Monday night and did that in a 33$ on Tuesday night. So that’s 3 tournaments in the last 2 weeks that I had the chip lead for about 2 - 3 hours. I feel really confident at accumulating chips right now, I couldn’t feel better and more confident about my game. I’m just frustrated with the finishes, if I make money, nearly nothing.


I played a couple cash games this week. I went to Renfrew for the 100$ deep stack tournament. I started off pretty good, doubled up pretty early and got my stack up to about 35 000 (start with 10 000) within the first 2 hours. I lost a big chunk of my stack when I my read was that the player was scared and that he had AK or AQ on a J 10 4 board. I check raised him all in and he called with AJ. I played a couple more pots, but never really hit anything and lost. I ended up all in with about 10 BB’s with A8 vs KQ. Q on flop, GG. I played the cash games afterwards and did pretty good for a 1 – 2 NL game. I made 560$ in the cash game. I got the biggest cooler of my life. I got KK, flop is 6 6 4, turn K river 3. The guy had 66. Obv, I doubled him up. Fishbones says I’m a luck box only because the one time I play 1–2 and not 5-5, I get the worst beat of my life, only cost me 100$ instead of probably 1000$ in the 5-5 game. I lost 800$ in cash game on Sunday night. In 2 big pots, people caught a 2 outter, one of them hit a gut shot and the other was calling with bottom pair, and caught 2 pair on the river with 4 2 to beat my 1 pair with flush draw on the flop. Overall, i'm pretty happy with my week, hopefully i can get back on track in cash games and get a good finish in a tourney.

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