ABORT, ABORT...

Seriously, I can't be this bad!! The SnG mission on Party Poker is over. I'm not going through with 50 of these things. The beats I have been taking have been brutal. I did place in the money just two days ago (3rd place grrrrr), but before that I probably averaged 4th or 5th place. The structure of these mother-effers is so messed up that it forces you to play kinda bad. But the beats....ARGGGHH! This is one of my favorites and sums up the play in these $10+1's;

Middle of 2nd level of blinds (15/30). AKo on the button (730 chips). One MP limper (about 500 chips), one player next to him raises to 100 (he has about 300 left), and I seriously knew I had the lead here. I put in a 350 raise to shut out the limper and let the raiser know i mean business. The limper goes all in, as does the raiser!! Wonderful i'm thinking...but for some odd reason I knew I was in the lead. This is what I was up against: MP limper - JTo, MP raiser - AQo...of course a Jack hit and I was down to a little over 200 in chips. The best thing is the limper says in the chat box "there's a lesson for you, sometimes Jacks are better than Aces". Thanks retard. I told him I didn't have aces and that if I did he'd have been out, but thanks for the lesson.

So, it's cash games only on Party Poker from here on out. I thought about trying out the 20's, which i've heard great things about, but I don't want to have to re-deposit after taking these kind of beats.

Thanks to NeccoWafers on plusone, I have been on a roller coaster of sorts playing $2/$4 Triple Draw. On Sunday I had my worst run and almost lost a buy-in. I think I left with about $15. I really got absolutely no cards to speak of and tried to make hands out of crap. Then last night I turned $84 in to $205 playing what I consider to be close to flawless (and a little lucky). By lucky I mean I was defending my bb (which was almost always raised) w/ 23xxx,24xxx and hitting perfect cards. I think I drew out of position three times in 2 hours. I do have to stop pushing hands like 268xx out of position. That is just awful. But at least I know it now. In the .25/.50 and .50/1 games these didn't hurt as much so I didn't realize how bad they were. But when you lose a $25 pot because of a rough draw, you start to see things a bit more clear.

Here's my favorite hand of the night, before I went on the $2/$4 run!

Hand #9779145-3394 at Saint John ($1/$2 Triple Draw 2-7)
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Started at 28/Nov/05 21:18:29

graysonf150 is at seat 0 with $100.
jamfreek is at seat 1 with $105.25.
scottpoker04 is at seat 2 with $25.50. (This guy bought in for $100 i believe)
Zebulon300 is at seat 3 with $10.50.
worldcup2010 is at seat 4 with $70.50.
GreaterThanU is at seat 5 with $18.50.
The button is at seat 3.

worldcup2010 posts the small blind of $.50.
GreaterThanU posts the big blind of $1.

jamfreek: 8h 5c 7d 3s 4s
scottpoker04: -- -- -- -- --
Zebulon300: -- -- -- -- --
worldcup2010: -- -- -- -- --
GreaterThanU: -- -- -- -- --

First Round:

jamfreek raises to $2. scottpoker04 re-raises to $3.
Zebulon300 folds. worldcup2010 re-raises to $4.
GreaterThanU calls. jamfreek calls. scottpoker04
calls.

worldcup2010 takes 2 cards. GreaterThanU takes 2
cards. jamfreek stands pat. scottpoker04 takes 4
cards.

Second Round:

jamfreek: 8h 5c 7d 3s 4s
scottpoker04: -- -- -- -- --
worldcup2010: -- -- -- -- --
GreaterThanU: -- -- -- -- --

worldcup2010 checks. GreaterThanU bets $1. jamfreek
raises to $2. scottpoker04 re-raises to $3.
worldcup2010 folds. GreaterThanU calls. jamfreek
re-raises to $4. scottpoker04 calls. GreaterThanU
calls.

GreaterThanU takes 1 card. jamfreek stands pat.
scottpoker04 takes 2 cards.

jamfreek: 8h 5c 7d 3s 4s
scottpoker04: -- -- -- -- --
GreaterThanU: -- -- -- -- --

Third Round:

GreaterThanU checks. jamfreek bets $2. scottpoker04
raises to $4. GreaterThanU calls. jamfreek
re-raises to $6. scottpoker04 re-raises to $8.
GreaterThanU calls. jamfreek calls.

GreaterThanU takes 1 card. jamfreek stands pat.
scottpoker04 takes 1 card.

jamfreek: 8h 5c 7d 3s 4s
scottpoker04: -- -- -- -- --
GreaterThanU: -- -- -- -- --

Final Round:

GreaterThanU checks. jamfreek bets $2. scottpoker04
calls. GreaterThanU folds.

Showdown:

jamfreek shows 8h 7d 5c 4s 3s.
jamfreek has 8 7 5 4 3.
scottpoker04 mucks cards.
(scottpoker04 has As 6d 4c 3c 2c.)

Do you fold a $50 pot w/ an A? Of course right. And trust me, he didn't think it was A-5....I saw this guy push hands and raise and re-raise w/ 45789! He called people down with Q high after they were pat after the second draw. He must have been on some serious TILT!