Card Dead

So since the last time I posted, I have been playing absolutely terrible. Actually, I think it is in part my playing bad, and partly getting completely sucked out on time after time, which is in turn my fault on earlier play... My Aces have been getting cracked, I have flopped straights, only to get beaten by backdoor flush draws that go all-in on the flop, driving me crazy. I have not won a penny in a single tournament since last post, which was...July 17th, so a little over 2 weeks ago. And it hasn't just been on one site, it has been on just about all of them.

Starting off, I bubbled on Carbon, which would have given me at least $5(a lot considering .07c has been in there since the first week I had it). On UltimateBet, I played a like 5 $1 SnGs, to be of no help to me at all, I think I got 4th in 3 or 4 of them, which almost makes it worse. On Bodog, I played one of their $3.30 SnGs(which is higher than my bankroll allows, but it is the lowest they really have that isn't a 90-person) and bubbled on that one too!

Where I really screwed up was at FullTilt, playing the Daily Dollar tournament... I am mad at myself for this, because it could have been avoided. First of all, I won my seat into the tournament through winning a little 50 FPPs SnG satellite, which was easier than hell. So I am playing the tournament and build up a good stack, probably about 4 times the size of the average stack, and then like 4 hands in a row, I get the following: KK, AKs, AKo, JJ. Could I have any better cards consecutively? That's what I thought too, but I LOST WITH EVERY FUCKING ONE OF THEM!!! Why? Because it is a rebuy! So Joe Dumbfuck over there will go all-in with jack shit and suck out on me with my great hands, and if he loses, he will just rebuy again, and again, and again. So after those consecutive beats, I was pissed, and did a rebuy, then a double rebuy, and then a double addon when the break came. So I ended up spending like $7 on a stupid $1 tournament. I ended up getting pushed around after that, because I was moved to a table where everyone else had at least double my stack, and ended up getting out when I pushed with KQs and ran into KK and never held up. This is just one of the reasons that I usually never play Rebuys, because I hate how people play them... the damn game isn't played with skill, but how deep your pockets are, and that's stupid. Oh well.

I have brought my FullTilt back up about $2 by playing ring games though, and I think I might start to do this a little more often now, as I am pretty sure I have a good strategy that someone over at CardsChat helped me learn. So I have just been playing NL2(.01/.02) on FT just to try out my strategy, and I have doubled my buyins 3 times in just the past 2 days, so I think I am going to master it a little bit more at NL2, and hopefully will build the roll up a little bit to be able to get to NL5 soon(and on up), because it's kind of hard to take things seriously when you are playing for pennies, but I have to start somewhere, and it is more consistent than tournaments have been going for me lately, so I'll stick with it for now.

Also, I am thinking about possibly buying Hold'em Manager with some of my UltimateBet winnings. I have been doing trials on it for a long time now and it is a pain in the ass having to get rid of all of the tracks every two weeks when the trial is up(whoops, did I say that), and I love the program, just couldn't see spending $55 on it, but it will definitely be worth it over the long run. I just need to have a little bit more motivation to make that push. Well, hopefully next time I post, I will have some better news for you, this post was more of a rant I feel. Until next time, good luck at the felt(for me!!)