Monday, June 19, 2006

Sometimes you just lose

So yesterday was Sunday, and in the online poker world Sunday means big tournaments. I played a lot of them again this week hoping for that elusive big score. Unfortunately, when you run bad in said tournaments you take a nice downswing.

Tournament/Total buy-in counting rebuys and add-ons if available/place/$$ won

Stars:

Million Guaranteed $215 983/4299 $0
2nd Chance $215 373/749 $0
$100 Rebuy $309 90/255 $0 (No, I shouldn't be playing this high)
$100 PLO8 $109 36/144 $0
$10r 55K Guar. $71 886/1534 $0


Party:

Million Guaranteed $215 1376/4002 $0
$100 NL 40K Guar. $109 78/630 $0
$150 NL $162 349/360 $0
$100 NL $109 35/275 $0 (I lost my connection and blinded off %$^%$#)

Paradise:
$150K Guaranteed $200 72/610 $0 (donked out 2 from the money on a poorly timed resteal)
$30r 100K Guaranteed $210 100/1021 $120!!!! (SHIP IT)
$60 NL $60 35/146 $0

I did make like $110 playing 2/4 NL briefly so I managed to keep the damage under 2K at least. Stretches like these are pretty common playing tournaments, sometimes the cards just don't fall your way. It sucks when they happen while you're playing your biggest games for the week of course, but so it goes. This post shows how sick variance can be in the big tournaments. That's it for now,

Mike

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