Hi all,

Well I’d been looking forward to this weekend since last Monday when the Mrs gave me the joyous news she had been invited to spend a long weekend with her mother at a spa hotel. I had a very rare whole Fri night – Monday to myself, no Saturday trudging round the shops for me this week… what to do with myself…. I know… lets play some POKER!

Yesterday I got up early feeling good, made some breakfast and fired up some tournaments. Was playing good and made a couple of deep runs, best of all,  I managed to reach the final table of the 2.20 deep stacks on ‘Stars, 2nd in chips, I quite had my eye on winning it – the chip leader was a bit of a donk who had been on my table for an hour at the start of the tournament and I’d seen him get it in several times with stuff like A 10 o/s and fish-flush draws. Everyone else at the table had the chips spread out nicely between them, and a couple of shorties. 

I decided to bide my time, let the shorties go out, and start making moves when it gets down to the last 6 or so, unless of course I picked up any monster hands… 

about 12 hands in (one of the shorties has already gone out) I pick up A   K  UTG+1 and make it 2.5X the donk chip leader calls me and the button shoves something ridiculous like 50 odd big’s. I know its a coin flip but I don’t think I can lay it down, I over shove and chip leader folds, button shows 8  8 The flop comes 4  9  J  but some how he manages fade everything turn and river and the pair holds. 

Okay that one hurt, but still in with a shout try not to loose focus…

A few hands later I’m in the BB and pick up AQ everyone folds to the button who is about 5th in chips, he shoves, SM folds, I cover him but I’m small beans if I loose this, however its is obviously an insta-call, he shows A  6  The flop comes J  6  J  I don’t get my Queen turn or river. 

The very next hand I pick up K  K  Down under 20 big’s I just shove from the SB into the cut-off raiser he calls and shows 4 4  and suffice to say there is a 4 on the flop. 

So there we go about 10 hours work (I play from level 1 in the small stakes as about half the time you can get an early double up) gone in about 25 minutes with just small change as my reward, I’m not one to let variance bother me too much, but I was gutted.

I had to force myself off the computer lest, I hit the spin and gos to do half the BR in, instead I headed to the pub where I remained until the Mrs rang the mobile to check I was okay, and thought I’d snuck off clubbing in her absence

Didn’t bother with a session at all today (Sundays are usually my grind day) instead I slept late, made a fry up, and wasted my time. Think I shall be having a good week off Poker Stars as I’m still feeling pretty damn tilty now.  

So has anyone had a similar experience? Was there anything I could have done? As far as I can tell, not a lot, except not take the coin flip with A K – I must say I had a bad feeling about it, but suited I don’t see how you can lay it down.