I have been doomswitched. The last 3 days have been bloody. This hand from the 5r yesterday pretty much sums up what happens every single tournament, and note that this was not in the rebuy hour:

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t100/t200
9 players


Stack sizes:
UTG: t11700
UTG+1: t31350
MP1: t7685
MP2: t10300
MP3: t30725
CO: t16445
hero: t10330
SB: t18670
BB: t3525

Pre-flop: (9 players) hero is Button with
4 folds, MP3 raises all-in t30725, CO folds, hero calls all-in t10330, 2 folds.
Uncalled bets: t20395 returned to MP3.

Flop: (t600, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: t20960)


Turn: (t600, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: t20960)


River: (t600, 0 player + 2 all-in - Main pot: t20960)


Results:
Final pot: t600
MP3 showed 6h 9c

I mean, I know I can't win every tourney, but this kinda crap makes me want to break my monitor.

Ed's backyard.

So I donated $100 to Barry Greenstien's charity, and apparently that erased whatever karmic debt I owed.

this is just amazing. Grats Ed

I took most of Thursday off of poker, did not playin the internet since Thursday. I went out Friday night, and decided I would take a shot. I moved up to 9/18 LHE with a kill to 12/24. I ended up town about 7BB, 10BB if you count in the hourlong massage I got at the table. Then I left that cardroom at about 4am and went to one across town. I found a 2/5 200 max NLHE game, and it was fvcking insane. One guy said he was stuck over 3k in the game. I believed him. In the first orbit I sat I worked my 100 buy-in up to $500. I saw a hand all in pre-flop, where QJo won unimproved. I cashed out up $600 an hour later when the action players racked up.

I think my live game move-up will be permanent. I am done playing the low limits live, unless I am drunk, in which case I will be the guy at the 3/6 LHE table stradling from middle position and not looking at my cards 'til the river. MK knows of what I speak. . . .