$24 buy in 872 players   1st pays almost $5,000.  90 places will pay

 Here we go…………..

I swear I’m not getting myself into trouble early in this tourney and first hand I get 55 and it’s folded to me.  I raise and get a call.  Don’t hit the flop so I lay it down.  

The last few of these I’ve gone down at the beginning.  This morning I got down to 750 chips.  I was able to come back and ended up finishing 40th.  I don’t want to experience that again.  I’m not going to leak away my chips early.  What happened this morning was I had an unusual amount of reraisers on my table.  They kept betting me out of pots.  That’s okay.  I probably outlasted all of them and it reminded me I need to work on my game when I’m playing with reraisers.  At the limits I play there aren’t a lot of them.  Reraising is very effective and probably the weakest part of my game.  Gotta work on that.

This one is very slow.  I picked up a pot after limping with A7s and 2 diamonds flopped.  I bet the pot and they all folded.   I lost some on something earlier.  Don’t even remember what it was.  I’ve got 2,805 in chips.  It’s a real boring start.  Picked up a few in the sb.   (That one paid off Tina.)  A lot of limpers so I called.  Trash flop but I hit the 6.  I bet out and they all folded except a guy on a flush draw.  I drew a few chips from him when he didn’t hit his flush.  I’ve back over 3,000.

 99 / raise / one caller / Costs me 1000 chips.  He went all in with the board of jj33.  What do I do?  That’s why it pays to be in postion.    I wasn’t.    Grrrrrrrrrrr  Down to 1700 chips.   gotta grind my way back again.

I play A8.  the flop comes jj10.  I’m going to be dreaming about JJ’s.  An 8 comes and nobody is betting.  I’m in position so I bet and I take the pot.  Up to 1850.

sb q 10   call nothing on flop  fold    Some of that sb leak money Tina was blogging about.

I’m just folding and folding.  Getting crap cards.  I would have tripled up with a 10 4 o last hand.  Who knew?  Sometimes I wish they didn’t have that feature where you can look and see what you folded. 

SB   AJo /  Raiser Caller I call.  flop 252.   gotta lay it down.  Guess I should have come out betting.    Down to 1580

Button 57   flop 674 going to bet it heavy.  Won that one.  up to 1900

Gyla’s pacing around here sighing.  She’s bored.   LOL 

I raise with a7s.  I’m bored too.   nothing there for me.  

BB A9 hearts /  4 limpers and me / nothing on the flop. folding

SM  KK  all in    I win that pot.   up to 2180  

I’m sitting here watching the trash hands I’m folding make into winning hands.  It Hurts so bad.  What r u going to do?  Raise with 3 5 o?  UTG I get 56s.  I fold it and it folds to the blind.   It may have been a monster. 

BB (so soon?)  gotta lay down A8 to a BIG raise.  Wouldn’t have flopped anything anyway and raiser is all in.  Do I smell a big pair?

SB / folded to raiser /  Had 57 of hearts.  They were pretty.

I take a shot with a k9s after one limper from utg.  Guess I pissed off the button.  He pushes pretty hard.  I have to fold. 

I’m not on my A game.   :(  Trying to force the action and it doesn’t work.  There is just no energy for me in this game.  I don’t feel connected to it. 

Good.  Break soon.  I’m going to get up and circle my chair 3 times. 

Maybe not   AJ in the BB

Can you spell M*ther F**ker?   The sb pushes me all in.  I figure he is taking a shot.  I call.  He has K5o.    I flop the Ace. Turn 5 and the river is a K.  There is NO JUSTICE IN POKER!!!!!!!!!!!    I’m on tilt and have nothing to do with it.  No outlet.  AAAACCCCCKKKK.   I’d scream if someone could hear me but Gyla has gone to pick up some KFC.   Good.  Comfort food.  I need it.    I can’t help it if AJ was the best hand I’d seen in 1 hour.

Well…..at least I don’t have to circle my chair.