Getting Worse

I didn't think I could run much worse than the past few days but apparently I can. I played quite a few tourneys again today and didn't get a cash in a regular tourney. Also, Twisted had a few more decent scores and has moved within 300 points of me on the month.

I played two $33 rebuy tournaments today where the winner of the tournament gets a $12k package to the main event of the WSOP this summer. They usually get around 170 people and the play is pretty bad. The only downside to them is that you have to win the tournament and even with bad play that is still pretty difficult. Well I made the final table in both of the ones I played today, which is a pretty tough thing to do in itself. I ended up finished 4th in both of them which actually paid out $650 but that doesn't really feel that good when first is $12k.

In the first one I had 12 outs with my flush draw and an overcard to the other players pair but missed and then ran KK into AA. In the second one I raised JJ on the button and got called by both blinds. The flop came KJ2 and they both checked to me and I bet about half the pot. The small blind folded and the big blind shoved and I figured he probably had a king or a diamond draw since there were two diamonds on the board. Well I was really excited when he flipped over Q8 for a complete bluff with no pair and no draw... well almost no draw. The turn was an ace and the river was a ten giving him running cards for a straight. The pot would have tied me for the chip lead three handed against two other players I felt I was a huge favorite against. When the money went in I was a 97% favorite to win. The only way to be a bigger favorite is to have the other person drawing dead.

I also lost a pot for a huge stack in my $22 rebuy when the other guy had 12 outs and hit. I would have had a top 3 stack on the money bubble which means I could really bully the other players and build my stack for a final table run. This happened at almost the same time as I missed my 12 outer at my first WSOP satellite final table. Always nice to lose with 12 outs at the same time you lose to 12 outs.

I'm going to try to push through this bad streak for the rest of the month but I'm really tired of tournaments right now and am going be very happy to get back to cash games in April.