MAY, WEEK 1 WRAP

I'm up a couple hundred bucks but I'm not happy about it. I've been playing well but running into the inopportune bad luck to keep me from a big payday. I finished 5/81 in my second event of the month. I got to the final table in good shape but ran into a couple of rough hands in a row and was out. I raised with 66 and the bb pushed. I should have folded, but the recent gameplay lead me to believe it was likely a race and I had double his chips so I made the call only to run into tens. I got coolered again soon after though I don't recall the hand. At least I got the month started with money in the profit column.

I have next to no cash at Full Tilt since all my losses have been occurring there. I had saved a few hundred bucks and a $216 ticket for Sunday. I plan to reload some cash next week, but don't tell the wife or she'll think I'm losing. I'm actually making steady gains at PokerStars to offset the Tilt losses. I kicked off Sunday by taking my entire Tilt bankroll into a cash game. I began with $356 and played smart so that I wouldn't go broke in a marginal situation. At least that was the plan. I was just over $400 when I couldn't get away from AJ on a jack high board. The guy was betting like he had an overpair, but I didn't buy it, I figured he had the club draw. I got it all in, only to see I was up against aces. I got super lucky and caught a jack on the river to steal the pot and over $800. I was not long for that game. After a few orbits, I took my ill-gotten gains and retired from the cash game.

I played five events on Sunday. I played well mostly and made the top half of the field in all of them. I got a bunch of chips early in the big Stars event, but then went card dead for the next two and a half hours, other than three times getting aces with no action. I wound up finishing short of the money in the first four events. In the fifth event, I finished 26/661 and made back half of the money I spent on the day. I played this event best of all. I was happy with every decision except for the time I meant to fold my bb and I mistakenly called, then I compounded the error by bluffing the flop when it was checked to me. That cost me $15k that would have been better left undisturbed in my stack. I hated how the tourney ended for me. First, I called an all-in with AK vs A9 and lost, then I got the remainder of my stack in with K5 on the small blind when it folded around. The big blind was a big stack but it was still 25% of his stack to call. He tanked for awhile and found a call with Q4 and beat me. I hate that nonsense. It's good that I'm getting my chips in good but it is better when I don't bust out because of it.