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I think everyone who plays poker will agree that it is a frustrating game. You can play poorly and be rewarded. You can play perfectly and yet have little to show for it. The last few days have been frustrating for me. I've played 12 SNGs or small field MTTs this month. My ROI for these is -64%. Now it's only a $39 loss but the frustrating thing was the way the games played out. of the 12, I bubbled in 5 of them and cashed twice, both of them second places. Of the second place cashes, the first I went out when my opponent pushed all in preflop with Q4s into my Aces and he hit his flush and the second catching the idiot end of a straight was my undoing as my opponent had the non-idiot end. Bubbling 5 out of 12 shows that I really need to relearn bubble strategy and so I've created a little timetable of PXF videos to watch which I'll be working on this week. For some of the 5 I think I played correctly but there were a couple that I know I butchered. The worst one was a $3.40 I played last night. There are five players left with the blinds at 75/150. My stack is 2785 which is comfortably in second place. Two to my left is a player who plays nearly every hand, something like 60% VPIP. She's taken a big hit (though she still has 2000 chips) and she's been pushing a fair bit the last orbit. Acting after her is the other villian in the hand, the chip leader with 5850 chips. I'm in the BB and check after Loosey-Goosey and ChipLeader limp in. I've got A7o and flop two pair on an As7s5d board. My first reaction was "yeehaw - time to get some money off of Loosey-Goosey". I bet out 600 and Loosey-Goosey, as I'd hoped, reraises all in. What I didn't pay much attention to was that ChipLeader called her all in. The action came to me and I reraised all in with my two pair without even thinking about ChipLeader's action meant. The cards get turned over. Loosey-Goosey had T7o for a pair of sevens which was exactly what I was hoping for. Unfortunately ChipLeader turned over a pair of 5s for bottom set and I'm toast. ChipLeader knocks us both out and the other two players who had about 10BB each suddenly find themselves in the money. Absolutely horrible, horrible, horrible play by me. I was so consumed with getting money from Loosey-Goosey that I had not even stopped to think what ChipLeader was doing. And he was the only player who could bust me. And he did. Oh well, lesson learned I hope.
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