tournament poker sucks

it's a love hate relationship.

i played the 7pm $75 again last night. i played pretty tight since im mostly concentrating on my plo cash tables.

here's the first significant hand:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1722584 - thats an ugly turn and river but his bet on the river made me feel more comfortable with calling. so i pick off his bluff and get some good chips early.

the second hand:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1722585 - same villain, betting light and probably muttering to himself that im a fkn calling station.

leads to the final hand:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1722587 - same villain again opens the button, i make a simple 3-bet from the bb and it's literally probably the 6th hand i've played in the first 90 mins. he snap shoved and i snap call.

so despite his best efforts, the poker gods would not allow to take all his chips. i guess looking at it a day later the third hand is probably a bad call but i had a feeling he was pissed with me for not folding the AJ hand and was playing poorly against me.

only got about 600 hands of plo in and broke pretty much even after being down a couple buy-ins to start. i think im misplaying sets on dangerous boards so it's something i'll have to go over.

tg