He is, but that's what variance can do to you.

I played in 3 90 seat SnG's at FTP tonight. Didn't cash in any of them unfortunately. Got knocked out or totally crippled by a bad beat in each one, so I don't feel too bad about my play. They were only $5 & $10 ones cuz I haven't gotten my BR back online all the way yet to be able to afford much else. And since I'm trying to learn to become a better tourney player, I figure $5 & $10 deep stack 90 seaters should be decent learning grounds. I only have 2 of the 3 HH that killed me tonight, but if you want to see them they are here .

After that I played enough 6max NL25 to finish releasing another $20 in bonus and added to the small amount I won at the table, that put me just into the black for the night by covering all my entrance fees for the tourneys I had played. Being in the black for the day is always a good thing in my book.

Then I got started chatting with kennyg about NL6max and just before I was going to go to bed, I started up 16 tables of NL100 6max and let PT datamine them for about 15 minutes. Then I went through the summary page and found the worst players I could and sat at a table that had the two worst players (statistically anyway) from my short datatmining session. I was a bit nervous because I bought in with $100 which only left me about $35 in reserve until my BR gets online again after the Vegas trip. But I didn't let that stop me from playing fairly TAG and taking pots away from folks when it was obvious they whiffed on the flop and I had position. I was up a few bucks when the following hand happened. Not the best played hand ever but one I like because I got to win for once tonight!

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $0.50/$1
4 players


Stack sizes:
UTG: $131.65
SebQtaneus: $112.85
SB: $96.80
BB: $100

Pre-flop: (4 players) SebQtaneus is Button with
UTG folds, SebQtaneus raises to $3.5, SB calls, BB folds.

Flop: ($8, 2 players)
SB checks, SebQtaneus bets $8, SB raises to $24, SebQtaneus calls.

Turn: ($56, 2 players)
SB checks, SebQtaneus checks.

River: ($56, 2 players)
SB checks, SebQtaneus bets $35, SB calls.

Results:
Final pot: $126
SebQtaneus showed 4s As
SB mucks Kc Ah

Now it's been awhile since I won a pot larger than $100 online so this felt good. Very good. And it has whet my appetite for NL 6max even more. I think I was also smart to get up and leave the the 2 biggest losers left. For more and better pics of the BTP trip to Vegas see kennyg's journal for a link to his blog with the pics. After looking at them, I want to do a klingon chick!

Could a SnG end any suckier?

Here's the facts, you can judge for yourself.

It's a 2 table event, I get down to HU play with a HUGE CL as you can tell from the stacks in the first hand. Then Lee Jones decides to get out his barbed wire, glass encrusted 4" diameter dildo and proceed to.... well, you get the idea.

Here is the beginning of the end.

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t400/t800
(Ante: t50)
2 players


Stack sizes:
SB: t2546
SebQtaneus: t24454

Pre-flop: (2 players) SebQtaneus is BB with
SB raises to t1600, SebQtaneus raises to t3200, SB calls all-in t896.
Uncalled bets: t704 returned to SebQtaneus.

Flop: (t5092, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t5092)


Turn: (t5092, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t5092)


River: (t5092, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t5092)


Results:
Final pot: t5092
BB shows (a straight, Deuce to Six)
BB collected 5092 from pot


MAYBE 3 hands go by and I have whittled him down again, so Lee decides to do it again.

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t400/t800
(Ante: t50)
2 players


Stack sizes:
SebQtaneus: t24008
BB: t2992

Pre-flop: (2 players) SebQtaneus is SB with
SebQtaneus raises to t2400, BB raises all-in t2942, SebQtaneus calls t542 (pot was t5442).

Flop: (t5984, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t5984)


Turn: (t5984, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t5984)


River: (t5984, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t5984)


Results:
Final pot: t5984
BB showed


He then wins a 800 pot and then I win a 1600 pot so Lee pulls another one out of his bag.

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t400/t800
(Ante: t50)
2 players


Stack sizes:
SB: t5184
SebQtaneus: t21816

Pre-flop: (2 players) SebQtaneus is BB with
SB calls t400 (pot was t1300), SebQtaneus checks.

Flop: (t1700, 2 players)
SebQtaneus checks, SB bets t800, SebQtaneus raises to t2400, SB calls t1600 (pot was t4900).

Turn: (t6500, 2 players)
SebQtaneus bets t2400, SB calls all-in t1934.
Uncalled bets: t466 returned to SebQtaneus.

River: (t10368, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t10368)


Results:
Final pot: t10368
BB showed

So now, that one really irritated me. And I 'maybe' tilt a little bit and he wins 6 out of the next 8 pots to get me down 2:1 basically. I'm pissed off and decide I'm allin the next hand no matter what. Yeah, THAT was a brilliant plan! Here's the Coop Dee Grace. Lee decides not to let me off the hook and give me a huge suckout

Poker Stars
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t400/t800
(Ante: t50)
2 players


Stack sizes:
SB: t17018
SebQtaneus: t9982

Pre-flop: (2 players) SebQtaneus is BB with
SB raises to t1600, SebQtaneus raises to t4000, SB calls t2400 (pot was t5700).

Flop: (t8100, 2 players)
SebQtaneus bets t3200, SB raises to t12800, SebQtaneus calls all-in t2732.
Uncalled bets: t6868 returned to SB.

Turn: (t19964, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t19964)


River: (t19964, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t19964)


Results:
Final pot: t19964
BB showed

GAME OVER. GG me. Poker gives me hemorrhoids.

standard??? no??