MAY, WEEKEND 2 WRAP

FRIDAY:
Didn't play - started reading Gus Hansen's book.

SATURDAY:
We had company over during the day so I didn't play at all until the evening when pal, Kevin wanted to watch me play some online poker. I got into a heads-up match for $57.50 and my opponent wanted to get it all in pre-flop on the very first hand. I obliged with A-Q but couldn't improve and fell to his jacks. We had a good laugh and I started another match. This time we actually played a bit, but I got owned from the outset. Any time I thought I had a little something, he seemed to have it with a better kicker. I was 0-2 and not impressing my pal, so I jumped up to the $115 game and this time was able to vanquish my foe to pull close to even. For a different look, I got into a single-table six-max match, but even though my chips kept going in good, they weren't coming back out in my direction so I was unable to prove to my buddy that I was able to beat these guys. I played two $109 MTTs after he left and did well, but made no money. I flopped the dreaded trips against the flush draw in one of them. He had double my chips so shoved it in without hesitation and was rewarded with a spade on the river to send me into my bedtime routine.

SUNDAY:
Another horrible day - I'm just losing my shirt lately even though I think I'm playing okay. I won satellites into a couple of FTOPS events - the $535 Heads-Up Shootout and the $322 NLHE Freezeout. My entry was returned to me for the HU event because they couldn't use all the players that had signed up and I missed the cutoff. In all, I played six events and got nothing out of them. In one, the first hand I played, I saw a 8s-7h-6h flop holding 9h-8h. That cost me a lot of chips even though I managed to keep from going broke. The next hand I played, I did go broke with 9h-6h on a flop of Ah-9c-4h. I nearly made the payout in the $216 event at Stars. I did that usual thing where I got a bunch of chips early and then saw them dissipate over the next couple hours without winning a pot. In both that tourney and the $322 Tilt event, I lost big pots in the same way: I raised with As-Ks and was re-raised and re-re-raised. I folded neither time and both times I was up against A-K and A-A. Twice in a day that happened. I guess that was today's lesson that it is okay to fold Big Slick under that exact scenario. After two weeks in May, I am $1800 in the red. But I'm due. I don't suck, I'm just overdue.