Sunday just ain't my day...

Ugh, there is  a reason I don’t play on the weekends. Call it a jinx, call it bad luck, I don’t know what it is. I have never had a cash on the weekend. Never.

The day started off with the BLT ($2, turbo, 60000+ players). Got off to a decent start, the beginning of this tournament is very similar to the Turbo SNG’s I play, so I was able to build my 1500 starting chips to around 6K. Then it all fell apart. Every raise I made was called by 3 or more players, practically making it a BINGO game postflop. Nobody let go of anything, no pair, no draw, nothing. After winding back down to 3500 I ran my KK into AA in an all in preflop confrontation and just like that it was over. Not that I was too disappointed, I satellited into this game a month ago for .75c, so I don’t consider it a loss.

Then at 3:20 I started the 22K Double Deuce. This is another tourney I won my way into by winning a satellite tourney for $2.25. I played what I felt was a solid game, but in the end I made one move too many, one bad call, and it was over. Out of 10,876 players, I ended up in 6934^th.

 I was sitting in the BB, with one limper on the button, the flop came Ac 7d Jc. I was holding Jh7s. I led out,  and was min-raised by the limper. I figured him for a weak Ace, since he didn’t raise preflop. I 4-bet him to 1200, he min-raised me again, and I shoved my remaining 5.5K. He called and showed me A7. So I was right about the weak Ace, Just wrong about the kicker not matching the board. Sigh.

I played a couple of tilt games (bad idea) to work out some aggression. All I ended up doing was working out $10 from my bankroll.

After a hearty dinner, I entered the 14K Guarantee Superstack tourney. I have had some success in the tourney in the past, and with a 5K starting stack, 12 minute blind levels and slow blind increments, I felt it would be a good way to slow down and play some solid poker. I ran well for a bit, making my way up to over 9K in the first hour. During the second hour I lost half my stack with 10 10 vs. AJ to aplayer who would not let go of his hand. A Jack on the river shipped it his way. I wasn’t too worried as he busted out three hands later chasing a flush draw against the table chip leader J. Unfortunately, I went fairly card-dead, only making the occasional steal to keep my stack healthy. Eventually the blinds got to 170/340 with a 25 ante and I was sitting on a hair over 2.5K. I woke up with AQ UTG, shipped it, got called by JJ and I was done. Out of 3321 players, I missed the money by 299 spots.

So what did I learn from today’s session? Two things. First, stop playing on the weekends. Too many weekend warriors making the fields huge, and too many weekend tourney reg’s playing out of my league (for now).  Second thing I learned is to stop playing ‘cool off tilt games’. I burnt 5 buy-ins over bullshit.

So now I’m back in my niche playing the $2 1r-1a (one rebuy, one add-on). Sitting 136 out of 226 remaining. I smell another final table. Oh, did I mention I won this tourney last Monday and final tabled it on Friday? Yeah, I like this one.

After this I am done for the night, tomorrow is going to be a long day. I have a good schedule of tourneys lined up. GL out there.