Special Report!

I was just writing up a post on some cash game hands but I have to interrupt that post because this just in!

Tournaments suck.

I qualified for Full Tilt's Fifty Fifty through the $14+1 satellite and so I was feeling good. I had about 5 minutes before the tournament started so I went to clean out the cat litter. By the time I was back (and washed my hands), the tournament started and I folded 5-6o from the button. No big deal. Few hands later, I find KK. There's a raise from EP, I reraise, button calls, SB who just doubled up calls, and the original raiser jams. I figured, if he has AA, so be it. With these things, so many clowns are willing to go all in with AK, AQ, I figured, more often than not, I'm ahead (considering the guy who doubled up flopped a flush but the guy with AQ couldn't let go of the nut flush draw). So I call. The other two folds and this is what I see.



Keep in mind, money went all in preflop.

Some of you might be thinking, well, at least you only lost $15. If this were a cash game, at your stakes, you coulda lost $400 or more. True. And believe me, that would suck... but you could buy back in. I think it's the finality of the tournament that I don't like. Every time I get knocked out, it hurts. Like it physically hurts. I get stacked for $400? Yeah, it hurts, but I could make it back (granted, when they do a hit and run, it hurts... just like a tournament). But the tournament? If you're stacked, it's over. Finito. No more. It's like death... ok, not quite like death but you know what I mean.

Also, just as a thought, anyone think I shoulda folded there? In a tournament, I don't think I can fold KK. In a cash game, I think I woulda folded there, to tell you the truth. Because in a cash game, the only time I would see something like that would be if the guy had aces... or he's crazy. But in a tournament, I'm only gonna get dealt a certain number of hands. I feel like I should try to double up with those hands so I don't think folding KK is an option preflop. I'm not saying I'll never fold (never say never) but just wondering.

Hopefully, this means good karma for tonight's MATH...