As expected, I was mostly fine the next day, but wound up skipping the 5K event (which a friend of mine won - congrats) to hang out at home and watch a movie. I definitely recommend Kung Fu Panda; it's a nice brainless way to spend a couple of hours not thinking about poker.

I did play an event yesterday, where I continued my tradition of second breaklessness. This time, it was on a pretty generic hand - a shortstack raises to 525 of his 2600 stack in MP at 100/200, I make it 1650 of my 4400 stack with AKs next to act, and the SB pretty quickly shoves. Although I make some G-bucks on the shove, I still lose to his jacks. Starting at 80 BB in a 2K event (which goes down to 20 BB in 2 hours) and having no room to play leads to a lot of hands like this, which is really annoying when you don't win any.

That led me to the razz event today. I came into it with high hopes, and for about two hours, the results were spectacular; the hand after the first break, I'd run a 3K starting stack to 8K and probably had the chip lead in the tournament, playing very well, making thin value bets in all the right spots and pretty much destroying the incredibly soft field. Then, as seems pretty standard for me these days, the bottom fell out; I made one 765-low (that chopped) and 3 87's, *all of which I made on fifth and had to fold on sixth street!!!*, in the next four hours, and simply never won another hand worth any chips. I'm reasonably sure I played my A game for the whole tournament, but when you don't make any hands in a stud format where the blinds move up fast, it doesn't matter.

Sigh.

There are a bunch of NL events coming up from Saturday - Tuesday, in addition to a really good Sunday (lots of WSOP packages up for grabs. Did I mention I managed to bubble one of those a week ago via a 3 outer? ...yeah, it's been that kind of series.) I'll be playing at least 2 and probably 3 of those. Everyone I know has seemingly won a bracelet (Scott today, Vanessa yesterday in PLO), so it's definitely my turn now or something.

Funny thing - it seems way worse than it is. Not cashing in 8 events is so amazingly standard that nobody even cares; it's just the stage on which this is taking place that's making this worth life tilting over. Oh yeah, and running TPTK into the nuts repeatedly kinda sucks, too.

'K, enough bitching. Some good poker coming up soon, and at the very least, I managed to make certain I still know how to play it.

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