how do people get away with this

50 left in 18k superstack early antes.  I have 88k at 1200/2400.  Villian (60k) opens for 7k in the HJ and I 3bet AQo from the cutoff to 20k planning on calling his shove(he's bad).  Obviously he flats 1/3 of his stack.  Flop is 865.  He checks. I put him on a hand like KJ and with 45k in the pot I pushed him in for his last 40k.  He calls with 78.  I turned an A giving me the lead but the river 9 gave him a straight and crippling me.  K8<AQ a few hands later.  I hate poker.

hmmm

Built a good stack in the 33k KO MET today.  With about 100 players left I had around 80k at 1200/2400.  I opened QQ UTG to 5800.  An awful player in early middle position called with about 75k.  He had been up around 150k but was playing too many hands and was rollercoastering.  Flop was 942.  I bet around 10k (2/3 the pot) and he flatted.  Turn was a K and I check-called 18k.  River was another K.  I checked and he snap shoved 40k.  I thought I caught him stacking off with air and snap called.  He had AK.

At first I was pissed at myself, but after some thought I think I like the call.  I OPR'ed him after the fact and he had 1 mincash in 49 tourneys.  The fact that he could have AK did pop into my head when I called the turn but when he snap shoved the river I thought no way it's AK.  GOOD READ.

A few recent hands

Full Tilt Poker Game #28255222283: $14,500 Guarantee (Rebuy) (219471449), Table 167 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 13:34:59 ET - 2011/02/16
Seat 1: pierko1 (1,420), is sitting out
Seat 2: Hilarius666 (6,085)
Seat 3: KULP (3,200)
Seat 4: bojjebiff (1,500)
Seat 5: gyoergyasia (4,120)
Seat 6: the Matala (1,260)
Seat 7: yuriy5 (15,125)
Seat 8: h-hard (4,720)
Seat 9: Draftpick (1,290)
yuriy5 posts the small blind of 40
h-hard posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KULP [Jh Tc]
Draftpick folds
pierko1 folds
Hilarius666 folds
KULP calls 80
gyoergyasia calls 80
the Matala folds
yuriy5 raises to 320
h-hard folds
KULP calls 240
gyoergyasia calls 240
*** FLOP *** [Td Th 3c]
yuriy5 checks
KULP checks
gyoergyasia checks
*** TURN *** [Td Th 3c] [As]
yuriy5 checks
KULP bets 480
gyoergyasia folds
yuriy5 raises to 1,200
KULP raises to 2,880, and is all in
yuriy5 calls 1,680
KULP shows [Jh Tc]
yuriy5 shows [Ad Qc]
*** RIVER *** [Td Th 3c As] [Ac]
KULP shows a full house, Tens full of Aces
yuriy5 shows a full house, Aces full of Tens
yuriy5 wins the pot (6,800) with a full house, Aces full of Tens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6,800 | Rake 0
Board: [Td Th 3c As Ac]
Seat 1: pierko1 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: Hilarius666 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: KULP showed [Jh Tc] and lost with a full house, Tens full of Aces
Seat 4: bojjebiff is sitting out
Seat 5: gyoergyasia folded on the Turn
Seat 6: the Matala (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: yuriy5 (small blind) showed [Ad Qc] and won (6,800) with a full house, Aces full of Tens
Seat 8: h-hard (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: Draftpick didn't bet (folded)



Full Tilt Poker Game #28257078381: $42,000 Guarantee (219489858), Table 154 - 30/60 - No Limit Hold'em - 14:42:27 ET - 2011/02/16
Seat 1: gurtnerhome (4,615)
Seat 2: Ravn Jahn (5,590)
Seat 3: GoVi36 (3,155)
Seat 4: 1NEVAK6 (6,625)
Seat 5: TAMMY2001 (4,894)
Seat 6: Tormol (4,140)
Seat 7: F33DME (4,620)
Seat 8: pokerface081971 (3,215)
Seat 9: KULP (3,030)
F33DME posts the small blind of 30
pokerface081971 posts the big blind of 60
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KULP [Ac Ah]
KULP raises to 180
gurtnerhome folds
Ravn Jahn calls 180
1NEVAK6 has been disconnected
1NEVAK6 has reconnected
GoVi36 folds
1NEVAK6 calls 180
TAMMY2001 folds
Tormol calls 180
F33DME raises to 580
pokerface081971 has 15 seconds left to act
pokerface081971 has been disconnected
pokerface081971 has reconnected
pokerface081971 folds
KULP has 15 seconds left to act
KULP raises to 3,030, and is all in
Ravn Jahn folds
1NEVAK6 folds
Tormol folds
F33DME calls 2,450
KULP shows [Ac Ah]
F33DME shows [Jh Js]
*** FLOP *** [Kh Jc Jd]
*** TURN *** [Kh Jc Jd] [6s]
pokerface081971 has been disconnected
*** RIVER *** [Kh Jc Jd 6s] [5d]
KULP shows two pair, Aces and Jacks
F33DME shows four of a kind, Jacks
F33DME wins the pot (6,660) with four of a kind, Jacks
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 6,660 | Rake 0
Board: [Kh Jc Jd 6s 5d]
Seat 1: gurtnerhome didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: Ravn Jahn folded before the Flop
Seat 3: GoVi36 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 4: 1NEVAK6 folded before the Flop
Seat 5: TAMMY2001 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: Tormol (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 7: F33DME (small blind) showed [Jh Js] and won (6,660) with four of a kind, Jacks
Seat 8: pokerface081971 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 9: KULP showed [Ac Ah] and lost with two pair, Aces and Jacks


These paired with 0/4 in flips = 100 buyin downswings

this drives me crazy

The guy had open shoved the sb like 7 times (even when I had like 30+bb).  I snapped here with 45 left and my shit luck continued.....

Full Tilt Poker Game #28150933575: $12,000 Guarantee (Rebuy) (218609389), Table 135 - 1500/3000 Ante 400 - No Limit Hold'em - 23:01:01 ET - 2011/02/12
Seat 1: dynamikos (56,535)
Seat 2: superspur80 (47,369)
Seat 3: NumberonePat (36,561)
Seat 4: 0pokerkings0 (133,662)
Seat 5: KULP (49,107)
Seat 6: jediclinto (75,179)
dynamikos antes 400
superspur80 antes 400
NumberonePat antes 400
0pokerkings0 antes 400
KULP antes 400
jediclinto antes 400
0pokerkings0 posts the small blind of 1,500
KULP posts the big blind of 3,000
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to KULP [2d Ah]
jediclinto has 15 seconds left to act
jediclinto has timed out
jediclinto folds
jediclinto is sitting out
dynamikos folds
superspur80 folds
NumberonePat folds
jediclinto has returned
0pokerkings0 raises to 133,262, and is all in
KULP calls 45,707, and is all in
0pokerkings0 shows [2h 9c]
KULP shows [2d Ah]
Uncalled bet of 84,555 returned to 0pokerkings0
*** FLOP *** [8s 8c Td]
*** TURN *** [8s 8c Td] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [8s 8c Td 7d] [9h]
0pokerkings0 shows two pair, Nines and Eights
KULP shows a pair of Eights
0pokerkings0 wins the pot (99,814) with two pair, Nines and Eights
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 99,814 | Rake 0
Board: [8s 8c Td 7d 9h]
Seat 1: dynamikos folded before the Flop
Seat 2: superspur80 folded before the Flop
Seat 3: NumberonePat (button) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: 0pokerkings0 (small blind) showed [2h 9c] and won (99,814) with two pair, Nines and Eights
Seat 5: KULP (big blind) showed [2d Ah] and lost with a pair of Eights
Seat 6: jediclinto folded before the Flop

Justin Haefner shout out

Haef gave me his "lucky" nickel the other day so I told him he deserved a shout out.  I'm not sure if the nickel really is lucky because he also tried giving me his lucky candy wrapper and his lucky old receipt.  Regardless, I told him I would keep it forever and dropped it like 2 seconds later. 

oops

Just got caught 4betting bvb against a bigstack.  At 100/200 I started the hand with 11k and he had 7k.  He limped from sb and I 3xed from the bb with A2o.  He called and the flop was 833.  He checked and I bet 1k, he min-raised to 2k and I snap jammed into A3o.  So dumb.

finally a FT

Final tabled the $22 6-max 500cap on stars today.  Finished 4th for $760, not great but it does make up for the last couple days and then some.  Bust hand was gross.  Stacks were still relatively deep.  I think I had 30ishbb and was one of the shortstacks.  I lost KQ<88 all in on a KQ8 flop....cooler.