Another year of no WSOP for me

What a terrible weekend it was for me in terms of poker. Not so much the money lost but in terms of how I played, it was just horrible. I played the $350 Pokerstars WSOP satellite and I busted way early in the tournament when I couldn't get away from my top 2 pair against a made straight. There's no reason for me to be playing a pot that big so early with two pair.

And then I played the $550 Fulltilt WSOP Satellite (I'd like to point out that I didn't satellite into either of the above tourneys) and I busted somewhere in the 3rd hour or so when I went for a resteal with QTs which was by far the best hand I've seen in an hour (which online is a lot of hands) and the initial CO raiser called me with A9. It was such a poorly played tournament by me (including one time when I folded AA because I timed out... I was cooking at the same time and didn't notice it was my turn... at least the chicken and vegetables that I cooked up with some cajun seasoning was good. Not sure if it was worth folding pocket aces but it probably wouldn't have made a difference anyways. All in all though, I never got anything going and it was just bad, bad poker. As soon as I busted, I just quit because I felt like I was way off my game.

Ever since I got back from Japan/BBT ended, my urge for playing poker kinda died down. I'm not sure if it's because I haven't been able to put together a solid session or what... maybe I'm just burnt out. I really don't know what it is but yesterday was like the pinnacle of bad poker by me. Losing $900 in tournament buy in sucks. And now that I think about it, I'm not sure why I bought into those tourney because where my poker game is at right now, I am total dead money in the WSOP so why would I want to play in a $10k tourney? I don't. I realized that after I busted last night.

I can't take a break from poker because I am a degenerate. You know I have a problem when I am actually looking for an excuse not to play and yet I can't really find one. I will continue to rack up 200 points per day on FTP because I feel that I have to but my quest for platinum level on Stars is definitely not happening. I just can't put that much time towards poker. Plus, the next few weekends, I am out of town. I am going up to the bay in MD this weekend and I will be in Montreal the weekend after. That means no poker for two weekends in a row. Well, I'm sure while I'm in Montreal, I'll find ways to rack up 200pts (not in MD though since there's no internet at the house we're staying).

Before I forget, go congratulate LJ on winning her seat to the WSOP last night in the Fulltilt WSOP satellite. I don't know if any other bloggers were playing it or won a seat (I am so far behind on reading other people's blogs, I am only up-to-date on a select few so even if you posted, chances are, I just haven't seen it) so if you have, sorry I missed it.

At least this session over at Stars helped ease the pain a little...

PokerStars Game #18162703209: Hold'em No Limit ($2/$4) - 2008/06/15 - 19:14:08 (ET)
Table 'Waterman II' 6-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: Turbobent ($410.20 in chips) <--- SB
Seat 3: VictumSempra ($835 in chips) <--- BB
Seat 4: RINALDO_1976 ($306 in chips)
Seat 6: Dirty Vizzer ($1478 in chips)

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Dirty Vizzer [7h 7s]
RINALDO_1976: folds
Dirty Vizzer: raises $10 to $14
Turbobent: calls $12
VictumSempra: folds

*** FLOP *** [Jc 7c As]
Turbobent: checks
Dirty Vizzer: bets $23 <--- bet your sets!!!
Turbobent: calls $23

*** TURN *** [Jc 7c As] [7d] <--- DQB!
Turbobent: checks
Dirty Vizzer: bets $62 <--- bet your quads!!!
Turbobent: calls $62

*** RIVER *** [Jc 7c As 7d] [Ah] <--- best card ever
Turbobent: checks
Dirty Vizzer: bets $1332
Turbobent: calls $311.20 and is all-in
Uncalled bet ($1020.80) returned to Dirty Vizzer

*** SHOW DOWN ***
Dirty Vizzer: shows [7h 7s] (four of a kind, Sevens)
Turbobent: mucks hand
Dirty Vizzer collected $822.40 from pot

*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $824.40 | Rake $2
Board [Jc 7c As 7d Ah]
Seat 2: Turbobent (small blind) mucked [Ts Ad]
Seat 3: VictumSempra (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: RINALDO_1976 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: Dirty Vizzer (button) showed [7h 7s] and won ($822.40) with four of a kind, Sevens

Obviously, it sucks for turbobent that another A came on the river. I'm not saying he coulda gotten away from his ace but I'm pretty sure I couldn't have gotten his entire stack unless the river was an ace or a ten. Oh well, I'll take it!