Turning Stone Tournies

A nice winning streak comes to an end.
I went to T-stone last week to do some tournaments and ended up busting in two as well as losing at 5/5 for an overall loss of -$1,100 total.

I headed over to Ithaca on Tuesday night and stayed at Brauner's. The tournament was at 10am so I left Ithaca around 8 so i'd have some time to eat breakfast. When i got to the registration there was a line of about 20 people and it was already 10:00 but that didn't make a difference since it was so deep stacked. The room was packed with like 30+ tables and i was feeling really good since it was 40 minute rounds.
I had a little bit less than 10k and was playing my normal game when blinds doubled to 50/100 and this hand comes up.
1 player limps and i look down at KK. I make it 325 to go, 1 guy calls and button re-raises pretty quickly to 1150. The other guy folds to me and I try and decide how I'm gonna play it. I re-raised to 4k to find out where he was at and if he pushed i'd have to make a decision. He thought for about 30 seconds and then just called. I figured he either had to have QQ AA or possibly KK too.
The flop came A 6 3 and i pushed for my remaining 5k. He insta called with AA and that was the end of that. I don't think it was worth going broke over but it's a tough situation. If i check he can push with QQ and get me off of it so I figured i'd push first. I guess in retrospect i should've just shut down.
After that disappointing finish i went over to 100 max and played till around noon finishing +$130. I really had no motivation to play so I just went back to Ithaca.

I got a good nights sleep and was good to go for the $300 event the next day. I showed up after they dealt the first hand and was feeling really good. For about the first 3 hours I wasn't getting many hands and just picked up a few pots. My peak was at 11k-ish and my lowest was 8k-ish. I was moved to another table with a few online pros and then came the 45 min lunch break. There were alot of online players there and the field was filled with some pretty decent players.
After I got back I was really desperate to double up and just kept focus. I knew that it would come and finally after not seeing anything i get AA and there's a raise and a re-raise coming my way so i pushed for about 6k and ended up doubling up off of KK. Up to 14k when I went on a mini rush up to 22k. From there i got moved to another table and my first hand i get QQ. I raise to 2200 with 300/600 blinds. 1 guy was looking like he wanted to re-raise but he just called and it went heads up. Flop came low like T high and i checked trying to get a bet out of him. He checked as well and the turn peeled off a 7 or something and i bet. I can't remember how much i bet but it was probably about 3/4 of the pot and he called fairly quickly. River brought a 2 and i was sure i had best. I decided to overbet and put him all in for his remaining $4500 and he ended up calling with JJ.
blinds got to 500/1000 and i grinded my way up to 47k. That didn't last long though and I got myself involved in a pot i shouldn't have been in and got down to 37k when another cold streak hit. I hovered between 24k and 32k for a while and then we got a dinner break at 7pm.
There were 41 players left and top 20 got paid. 1st was $19.6k. I wasn't feeling too great for some reason since i figured i had only 20 BBs left and thought i was really pressured to double up. When i got back from the break the short stacks were pushing preflop and it was getting me frustrated so i made a call for 16k with AQ. The guy had 88 and i ended up being left with like 15k after losing that coinflip. I got involved in another pot and ended up pushing with 77 and a guy had AK. I held up and doubled back up to 32k.
37 left and blinds were 800/1600 when the following hand came up. There was a limp and an aggressive guy raised to 5k. I looked down at 44 and figured i could pick up this pot or go in a coinflip situation since the guy didn't really wanna gamble and if he actually did have a hand then so be it. It went folds to the guy who limped, he called pretty quickly and the original raiser folded. I hoped for 2 overs but he had JJ and it held up. I played for 11 hours and didn't even get paid...gg.

I chilled in Ithaca for the weekend and with my remaining $700 br i figured i could grind out some cash this week. On Monday I went to T-stone and played $200 max. I was up to $550 and in for $320 when a seat opened up at 500 max. I figured i'd play for a few more hours and then call it a day. The table was pretty aggressive with raises to 25-30 almost every hand. I got hit by the deck really cold and reloaded $300 more after about 2 hours of not hitting a single flop. Finally I flop a set with 88 and it goes multiway. Flop came A 8 3 with 2 spades. 1 guy bet 35 and another called when i raised to 85 more. The raiser like instantly called and the other guy called too. Turn was a 9s and the 2 guys just went at it so i shut down. The one guy ended up putting all his money in with AT and was drawing dead to his opponent's flush. After that hand i picked up QQ and an A flopped yadda yadda yadda...and i just left with $140. I put $40 on roullette and quickly lost that too.
I was feeling pretty shitty and then I got outside...and felt a lot more shitty. It was snowing and an hour later i was moving 30 mph on the highway with snow and ice covered roads. It got so bad that at one point i was goin 5 mph because i couldn't see anything and there was no one infront or behind me. Pretty ridiculous weather.

Today I had lunch with Eng and he gave me $1200. I negotiated with my mom to give her $600 now and $300 on Monday so i would have a little to work with at AC. I don't even know if i'm still goin to AC because i haven't talked to Ant La, since he was planning on doing some tournies and actually got a room up at Harrah's...Soooo hopefully we'll go.

I was pretty bummed at first about the loss but I got over it pretty quickly. I realized there's nothing i can do now and can only look forward. That's all for now I guess, hopefully I'll have good news to report about soon.


Peace