Frustration

So I'm in a pretty nasty little downswing right now. It's not like a terrible number or anything but its the frustration that comes along with it that makes it terrible. I'm down a couple hundred on Tilt and Stars and it just sucks. I see friends come through and getting big scores and I'm just waiting for my turn, if I even have a turn. It seems as if I run well in everything that has no significance to me at all. Really, the only tournaments of late that I've ran well in were the MSOP's and I have a 10k (probably average of like 3k) suckout. Do I really care if I run like good in the Railbirds tournament that has a $100 first prize when I get my head stompped on in the tournament with a 5k+ first prize? No, not really! It's not like I'm playing poorly at all. If I'd been getting my money in bad in every tournament and losing that would be one thing. But when you lose 120bb pots with KK < QQ, or flop a set against a guys gutterball striahgt draw and they hit, or a guy calls you with air on the flop and backdoors two pair to beat your floped 2, it gets really frustrating. My schedule this semster for school is really light, so I should have plenty of time to put in some volume and come up with a decent score. I'm not asking for something huge (like I should of had... sigh), but just a decent score to get me out of my downswing and on to slighty bigger stakes than the ones I'm playing now.

Dear Poker Gods,

I know you have unleashed your furious warth upon me lately, and I would really appreciate it if the curse would be lifted from me. I promise to play well (like always) and feed all the children of Mexico. I just ask to swim (run in poker terms) like Micheal Phelps. That's all I ask. It's not like I've done anything bad to you poker gods. I could go all Euguene Todd Bro on you guys, but I'm not. Just a short little letter to the almighty poker gods asking for the wrath to be transferred to some people less deserving (I could name a few railbirds in particular, but I'll be nice). I love you guys!!!

At your mercy,
Tim

Ok I guess I should do a little report on my FTOPS event that I played. I won a nine man $19 satty to the $129 KO Unlimited Hold'em FTOPS event on Sunday. After getting suckout out on in two $10 mtt sattys with pots that would have guarenteed me a seat, I played a sit n go and won because well I have go game selection and everyone in the sit n go had a negative roi, lucky me! Anyways, I was just grinding along for the first 30 minutes when I run into a loose spewtard who was terrible. I have about 3k, villian has about 1300 when the hand begins blinds 25/50 (I believe). Guy limps in early position, I limp behind with A8 of hearts, spewtard limps behind, sb calls, bb checks. Flop comes AJ6 two clubs. checks around to the spewtard who bets 200, everyone folds and I call. Turn is a 3. I check spewtard bets 350 or something like that. He has like 800 behind and could have a number of hands (flush draw, a jack,some sort of straight draw), so I shove hoping he didnt have a bigger ace which I was almost certain of, well he didnt have a bigger ace just A3 turning a 2 pair and I lose half my chips there. 30/60 I have like 1400. Guy raises to 160, mp calls, I over call with 88 (I really should have raised or folded but I guess calling isnt terrible), another terrible player shove allin for like 4k from the small blind. THis player was really bad, so I tanked. If I could but a pair lower than 88 in his range I think I have to call with only 20ish big blinds. I tanked forever and finally called. He had AK I flop good, turn give me an open ended straight draw, turn o hi der Mr. King! GG me. So FTOPS and FTOPS sattys sucked (except the 3 siper sattys I won for $55 each).

WCOOP is coming up really soon. I'm going to try to play the $215 Triple Draw and possibly the $215 HORSE. I'm going to try and look and sell some pieces of myself in these events if people are interested otherwise I'm probably going to try and satty in and if not probably take a shot out of bankroll. I'll probably play some $1/$3 rebuys and some of the $5/$10 guarentees on stars, and railbirds trnys of course. So that's my upcoming plans.