UB $530. I was chip leader going into the final table.

Hand #44016431-20 at Sun830pm75K-Final (No Limit tournament Hold'em)
Started at 02/Jul/07 00:24:37

ehendrick is at seat 0 with 16530.
BeL0WaB0Ve is at seat 1 with 32935.
Legiao is at seat 3 with 21245.
jack 9 is at seat 4 with 15785.
spiker123 is at seat 5 with 32560.
Kingdan23 is at seat 6 with 56090.
NoraFlum is at seat 7 with 15860.
ungarprodg is at seat 8 with 49780.
Tony Pisser is at seat 9 with 61715.
The button is at seat 8.

ehendrick posts ante (150).
BeL0WaB0Ve posts ante (150).
Legiao posts ante (150).
jack 9 posts ante (150).
spiker123 posts ante (150).
Kingdan23 posts ante (150).
NoraFlum posts ante (150).
ungarprodg posts ante (150).
Tony Pisser posts ante (150).
ehendrick posts the small blind of 800.
BeL0WaB0Ve posts the big blind of 1600.

ehendrick: -- --
BeL0WaB0Ve: -- --
Legiao: -- --
jack 9: -- --
spiker123: -- --
Kingdan23: -- --
NoraFlum: -- --
ungarprodg: -- --
Tony Pisser: 9s 9h

Pre-flop:

Legiao folds. jack 9 folds. spiker123 folds.
Kingdan23 folds. NoraFlum folds. ungarprodg folds.
Tony Pisser raises to 4100. ehendrick folds.
BeL0WaB0Ve calls.

Flop (board: 3h Qc 9c):

BeL0WaB0Ve checks. Tony Pisser bets 4800.
BeL0WaB0Ve calls.

Turn (board: 3h Qc 9c 7c):

BeL0WaB0Ve checks. Tony Pisser bets 9000.
BeL0WaB0Ve goes all-in for 23885. Tony Pisser calls.


Tournament all-in showdown -- players show:

BeL0WaB0Ve shows Ac 7d.
Tony Pisser shows 9s 9h.


River (board: 3h Qc 9c 7c 2c):

(no action in this round)




Showdown:

BeL0WaB0Ve has Ac Qc 9c 7c 2c: flush, ace high.
Tony Pisser has 9s 9h Qc 9c 7c: three nines.


Hand #44016431-20 Summary:

No rake is taken for this hand.
BeL0WaB0Ve wins 67720 with flush, ace high.

I finished 7th for about $17,000 less than first paid. That might have gotten me unstuck for Vegas.

Just another example. I've never been through a stretch this long where I felt I was playing really well and just not having any reults to show for it.

So today's story...

...after getting into the $1500 NL as an alternate and waiting two hours to be seated, I get crippled early when I run 44 into AA in a huge pot. After coming back to an 8x stack, I lose AKs to AQo AIPF.

-I lose most of my stack in the UB $129 bounty tournament with KK to JJ.

-I spend $1400 in the Stars $109r, because I get all in with AK vs 88, AQ vs 99, and 88 vs 99 all in the first hour, and then lose AK to JJ in the 2nd hour.

-I run AT into AJ in the blinds in the FTP $163. Then after I come back I lose AQ to JJ.

It's at the point where I completely expect that I will lose any time I am all in and the cards are turned over. I no longer look forward to races because I've won something like one of them in the last month. Yeah, one. I'm not kidding.

Maybe I'll write about some interesting hands later, but this is just weighing too heavily on me right now. I don't even want to think about poker.

Tuesday and Wednesday I played online and made the money of four events while making no final tables (that's three final two tables and a final three tables if you're scoring at home). Yesterday was the $5000 6-max event, which is what I've been fired up more for than anything else, so obviously I busted in the third level. Today I got out of bed to play the $2000 no limit event and spent almost ten hours there before busting, a time mostly marked by "chipping up or winning big pots flopping huge with random hands" combined with "getting big pairs cracked and losing pretty much every all-in where I wasn't a sizable favorite".

Some interesting hands will be posted later.

If I could run decently well late I might close out a tournament one of these days.

Sick three-bet bluff on Cake Poker

I showed, of course.

Long days of poker with not enough sleep in between. Made it well past dinner break today ($3000 NL) but still busted short of the money.

I will post more specifically about these last two days because I found myself in what I think were a lot of interesting situations. But frankly, right now I'm just too tired to elaborate on anything. More later.

Tomorrow is the $2500 shorthanded and Tuesday is the $5000 heads-up. These are the two matches I'm most excited about.