SUCKY SUNDAY

It's official that I suck and I am totally dead money on Sundays. I could have bought a car with the money I've donked off over the weekends this year. I might have to turn my attention towards scriptwriting for awhile to keep the bankroll intact. My poker career is not yet in its death throes but I am going to have to develop more consistency in the large field events.

A quick summary of Saturday: I donked out of a $150 after surviving a previous donk attempt by hitting perfect/perfect inside straight cards against a set against whom I had pushed; I made it deep into a large field HORSE ($10) tourney without cashing; I lost an Omaha/8 MTT on a brutal river beat before cashing. The only good came when I used two $54 Poker Classic Stage 2 tickets at PokerRoom vying for a $320 Stage 3 ticket to get me into a $5k buyin event. I won one ticket in a field of 18 and bubbled the other in a field of 22, taking the $140 boobie prize. My bustout came in a battle of the blinds when I had AQ and ran into QQ. Apparently Americans can still play at PokerRoom despite all the public rhetoric.

Sunday, I played eight events with good news to report only in one. While waiting for the big events to begin, I played a couple of satellites. I bubbled in one and won a ticket in the other - a $650 ticket at Stars for a shot at qualifying into a WPT event.

I busted out of the Stars Million with AQ v QQ on a Qxx rainbow flop. I busted out of the Tilt with TT v AA. I busted out of the PokerRoom Grand Prix $150 early with a set vs a rivered flush. I played a HORSE satellite at Tilt but got nowhere. I left a $150 Tilt event with two pair against undercards that flushed on the river. And this one takes the cake:

Fult Tilt $75, I was playing aggressively and winning big pots. After two orbits worth of folding, I raised it up from early position with 85d just to mix things up. I got a call from the small blind which is always nice because unless he hits the flop hard then I simply take down the pot with a bet. The flop came AK4 with two diamonds giving me the flush draw. He came out with a pot sized bet so he definitely was not trapping with AK. The best hand I could put him on was AQ but he still had to fear that I was playing AK. I decided to confirm his fears by pushing all in with my draw. Now I think this is a brilliant aggressive play, however as my luck is going, he called instantly with T9d for his entire stack! Okay, sure ten-high was actually good but I couldn't believe he made that call without seeing my cards. I could have still won by pairing up or even chopped with a little luck but the bricks were laid and I was done.