bah to poker

just chilled out tonite and played a couple mtts on my laptop in front of the tv.

6pm, $26 had 888 runners.

i chipped up early to about 1900 and the lost this pot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1267529

late in the first hour i got my double up.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1267540 - villain makes an absolute horrible call to my benefit.

in the 2nd hour i get another double thanks to more poor play.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1267545

after this hand i tightened up because i was pretty sure i had tilted the villain from the last hand. sure enough, i decide i've layed low long enough and start to open up and every time he 3-bet me.

the third time he showed me AK so i felt good about staying patient.

i got fairly short and decided to look for a re-steal opportunity since the late position players in my bb were stealing pretty weak. i made the re-shove here and he makes a nice call but i run goot.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1267556

sitting on a good stack and at a very aggressive table i decided to play my Kings a little differently. note the villain is the same from hand 2.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1267568

hard to believe but i looked this guy up on opr and he actually has some good scores.

anyways that knocked me out 95th, 14 short of the money.

the 7pm was very uneventful. i basically bled down to 2k and in the 2nd hour got it all-in short w/ A9 vs T9 and lost that one too.

the 7:15 limit went really well in the first hour and i had doubled my initial stack to 3k by the first break. everything that went right in the first hour went bad in the second and eventually busted 35th out of the 148 runners.

some side notes:

a) i hate rebuys on full tilt. i think i will stop playing for the time being. i really just don't feel they are that profitable for me right now. the lower limit ones seem to play so tight early. i usually find there are only one or two other players that double rebuy to start and it seems that i have to dump a couple rebuys just to try to loosen the table up. basically i have to play like a maniac and be willing to go off for a big number just to play it optimally which is not my forte.

b) i suck in the deep stack tournaments. its kind of funny but almost every one i play lately i end up down to 2k within the first 20 mins and have a constant up hill struggle to get back to having an average stack. im sure its just short term variance but it's frustrating at the same time.