It's 3am I must be lonely

Last quarter, I ended up pulling an all nighter the day before our huge regulatory report was due because I was making some process changes as well. I thought I would never have to do that again and yet, as I sit here in the office at 3am, it is becoming very close to another all nighter (most likely, I will go home shortly for a quick nap). However, I did play in the 2x tourney from Pokerstars that started at 8:30. Unfortunately for me (but fortunate for corporate America), I busted out after playing only two hands... back to back...

*warning - bad beat alert*

pokerStars Game #19207487498: Tournament #95693532, Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2008/07/29 - 21:01:36 (ET)
Table '95693532 120' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: bkoto3 (1375 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: bmoney2685 (495 in chips)
Seat 3: vincentkeize (1315 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 4: StrongBad101 (1315 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 5: Dirty Vizzer (1305 in chips)
Seat 6: bigdawg2250 (2373 in chips)
Seat 7: bjarni86 (1245 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: R0GEREL (3722 in chips)
Seat 9: Euronerd (2300 in chips)
StrongBad101: posts small blind 25
Dirty Vizzer: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Dirty Vizzer [Kd Ad]
bigdawg2250: folds
bjarni86: folds
R0GEREL: raises 150 to 200
Euronerd: folds
bkoto3: folds
bmoney2685: calls 200
vincentkeize: folds
StrongBad101: folds
Dirty Vizzer: raises 1105 to 1305 and is all-in
R0GEREL: folds
bmoney2685: calls 295 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (810) returned to Dirty Vizzer
*** FLOP *** [Js 3d 5c]
*** TURN *** [Js 3d 5c] [4s]
*** RIVER *** [Js 3d 5c 4s] [6c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Dirty Vizzer: shows [Kd Ad] (high card Ace)
bmoney2685: shows [td Jh] (a pair of Jacks)
bmoney2685 collected 1215 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1215 | Rake 0
Board [Js 3d 5c 4s 6c]
Seat 1: bkoto3 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: bmoney2685 showed [td Jh] and won (1215) with a pair of Jacks
Seat 3: vincentkeize (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: StrongBad101 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: Dirty Vizzer (big blind) showed [Kd Ad] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: bigdawg2250 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: bjarni86 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: R0GEREL folded before Flop
Seat 9: Euronerd folded before Flop (didn't bet)


pokerStars Game #19207504912: Tournament #95693532, Freeroll Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2008/07/29 - 21:02:20 (ET)
Table '95693532 120' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: bkoto3 (1375 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 2: bmoney2685 (1215 in chips)
Seat 3: vincentkeize (1315 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 4: StrongBad101 (1290 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 5: Dirty Vizzer (810 in chips)
Seat 6: bigdawg2250 (2373 in chips)
Seat 7: bjarni86 (1245 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: R0GEREL (3522 in chips)
Seat 9: Euronerd (2300 in chips)
Dirty Vizzer: posts small blind 25
bigdawg2250: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Dirty Vizzer [Ts Tc]
bjarni86: folds
bkoto3 has returned
R0GEREL: folds
Euronerd: raises 100 to 150
bkoto3: folds
bmoney2685: calls 150
vincentkeize: folds
StrongBad101: folds
Dirty Vizzer: raises 660 to 810 and is all-in
bigdawg2250: folds
Euronerd: calls 660
bmoney2685: folds
*** FLOP *** [Jc 5c 9h]
*** TURN *** [Jc 5c 9h] [3h]
*** RIVER *** [Jc 5c 9h 3h] [9s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Dirty Vizzer: shows [Ts Tc] (two pair, Tens and Nines)
Euronerd: shows [4s Js] (two pair, Jacks and Nines)
Euronerd collected 1820 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1820 | Rake 0
Board [Jc 5c 9h 3h 9s]
Seat 1: bkoto3 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: bmoney2685 folded before Flop
Seat 3: vincentkeize folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: StrongBad101 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Dirty Vizzer (small blind) showed [Ts Tc] and lost with two pair, Tens and Nines
Seat 6: bigdawg2250 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 7: bjarni86 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: R0GEREL folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Euronerd showed [4s Js] and won (1820) with two pair, Jacks and Nines

It's not so much the hands themselves that are bad beats as it is the fact that I only played two hands and I was done. Back to back hands even.

Fortunately for me, my nemesis seems to have busted out a few spots off the prize... (couldn't say money, since you win the status, not money).

Now some may say that I shouldn't be whining about bad beats in a freeroll. But the very nature of the tournament where you have to earn enough points to be in a freeroll no longer makes it a freeroll IMO. I had to play enough to achieve Gold status on poker stars while maintaining ironman on fulltilt... or even more important, clearing the $600 bonus which required me to average 400points per day for 30 days (as opposed to the 200pts for 25 days required to qualify for ironman). I am less than $5 from clearing the bonus so that should not be a problem. So, I consider that to be work enough that this tournament was not "free." So, all you haters, SUCK IT!