I hate this game...

Hello once again. It's been more than a week since I published my last post. I just haven't had much time to sit and chit-chat this past week. Now that I have some time, I'll catch everybody up on what's been going on this past week or so.

First I'll tell what happened at Kurt's a week ago Friday. Ready... . As you've probably noticed, I wrote absolutely nothing. That's what happened absolutely nothing. Well, almost nothing. In the first game I was playing really tight condsidering I wasn't at that tough of a table. There were a few maniacs, but only a few solid players in my opinion. Well, to make a long story short, Mohamad accumulated a ridiculous amount of chips within a short period of time. Meanwhile, I had only played two hands and lost abut $200. I was in the big blind for $40 when I picked up pocket 7's. Mohamad in mid-position raised it to $240 to go. Mohamad had been doing this ever since he was big stacked and he'd been doing it with marginal hands at best. I figured he was trying to steal my blind, so I raised it to $600 to go. Everyone folded back to him, and he sat there and thought for a while. I thought he was going to lay whatever he had down, instead, he raised me all in. I thought for a few seconds and considered he probably had something decent, A - K suited or maybe A - Q, all of which I was ahead preflop. I had pretty much half my stack in the pot and figured why not, so I called. He had K - Q, and I was relieved for a second. My relief soon turned to anguish after the flop when he hit his king. Nothing helped me and I was out of the tournament in 23 place. Great!

I thought I would do better the second game and I did, at least for a while. I made it to the first table merge, but the blinds ate me alive. After the blinds raped me for a second time, I was left with $1800. When the big blind hit me again, I picked up A - 4 offsuit, and pushed it all in. I had two people call me and I figured I was toast. The flop didn't help me at all. The turn came up As, giving ,me top pair and a glimmer of hope. The river was a 6c and I thought I would win. That was until Mark showed two pair, which he caught his second pair on the river, to knock me out in 13th place. Needless to say, my night at Kurt's wasn't a great success... it was however a great suckfest.

With the bad night from Kurt's still looming over my head, I tried to change my luck at Jim's this past Friday. The first game started out badly. Steve C. flopped a straight on me when I had top pair, Moe had me on tilt for most of the game, and I couldn't catch a flop to save my life. I did make it to the final table. My stack was short, then I doubled up to watch it shrink back down again. I folded a couple hands I would've won, once against Moe, what a shock. Bill ended up knocking me out with pocket 7's against my A - J in 7th place. I didn't really want to play the cash game because they were playing really loose and Mohamad was sucking out left and right. Jim said we were probably going to play a second game and I was all for it. In the second game, I did pretty well doubling up when I needed to, but I ended up finishing one spot out of the money in fourth.

All in all, I didn't play that badly, in my opinion. I just got unlucky, a lot. Next is Kurt's this Friday. I am desperately trying to accumulate points to distance myself from the 25th and final spot for the end of the year tournament. Of course, a win would help tremendously, but i'll take whatever I can get. I'll post my Top 5 later in the week. Until next time, later.

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