A quiet night of poker tonight.

My bad run in STTs continued with a 7th place in a $3 10 seater. My QQ met KK early on which I never recovered from.

I played the 5c/10c tables on SO just to get the 50 hands needed for the 50 up club. Came out about 20c up. LOL. I made the final table and even better than that won my place in the 2.5k. Ended up finishing 2nd for $19.50. Not bad for a freebie. Bit gutted I didn't win. It had got to the point where the blinds were so big it was shove every hand and I was 2:1 up in chips. My J 10 hit top pair but his 7 10 flopped a straight. All over next hand when my 22 failed to hold up against AJ. Still I'm happy with that. I had over $300 in last months freeroll.

I didn't get much chance to play last night but I did win about $30 on Poker770 at the cash tables. I normally make money at that site but my bad run has seen me take a hit there as well so hopefully that little win will see the tables turn.

No MTTs tonight so I just played 5 STTs.

I'm on a really bad run at the moment and my spreadsheet shows that I haven't even been in the money for the last 12 games. It's not even like I'm missing out on the bubble, I'm going out in 6th, 7th and 8th. Awful just awful.

I don't think I am doing anything any different. I was doing really well at these and have got good stats and a healthy bank roll. All of a sudden it just aint happening. I'm getting a few bad beats but you always get those. Tonight I had KK twice only to see rag aces who really shouldn't have called hitting an A on the river. That really sucks when you are having a bad run.

The cards dont help. I seriously think in all the hands I played tonight the only pairs I got dealt were the two KK that both lost. I did manage to survive an all in where I hit a lucky gutshot on the river but apart from that I'm not hitting the flop at all.

Oh well. I think I'll keep plugging away and hope the luck changes soon, before the bankroll runs out at least!

edit to add:

Just thought I'd play a $3 HU to try and get some confidence back. After about 10 mins with stacks even I got dealt QQ. I raised 4x BB and he goes All In. I call and he shows AQ. First 4 cards all low and then the river........you guessed it.......that sodding ace again. I hate this game.

Well here it goes. My first post on my spanking new blog.

I played in the PL Titan freeroll and Tikays tourney tonight. Didn't do so well really. To begin with my router kept dropping out every 10 mins which made it almost impossible to play. A couple of times I had decent hands and raised pre-flop when the disconnect came. Most frustrating. Not to mention all those sit-out hands where I was dealt AA! ;-)

I ended up getting short stacked on Titan and threw the chips in with A 10 only to run into TheRiversNotMyFriends A Q. Game over!

I did slightly better on SO as for once my JJ held up and doubled me up. This gave me enough chips to hang about for a bit in between drop outs. At this point I realised that after a spot of weekend DIY I had unplugged and moved my phone. Yep, you guessed it. I hadn't put the filter back in and this was causing the drop outs. Doesn't technology pee you off some times?

My demise in Tikays tourney came when I got dealt 99 and called a 3xBB raise. The flop showed 9 Q 2 and the turn a K. I felt pretty good that I was in front and threw them all in only to be shown I was up against QQ and the K river gave me no help.

Hell thats poker. A couple of STTs to finish the night before going to bed dreaming about what could have been.