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[the_hawk]

Spreadsheet here:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key ... y=COCH49IL

I will be starting some time this evening UK time (Sunday 28th November). GL us!

[the_hawk]

Busted #1 in 97th, villain cold-called with J9s against my AK and flopped flush draw, which got there on turn.

[the_hawk]

#2: Out 41st when my KK runs into the mighty T8o on 679.

[the_hawk]

17 outs not enough as AJs < 76o for a 119th place finish in #3.

[the_hawk]

#4: more promising, had a decent stack most of the way through, got done by a 4-flusher in a key hand with about 50 left, was short-ish approaching the bubble where 88 < AA. Finished 20th.

[the_hawk]

#5: didn't get in a blow. Probably had half a dozen playable hands, all of which missed the flop big style (AK on rags, JJ on AKx, that kinda jazz). Had already dwindled down a fair bit on missed flops when my AKs made the nut flush on the river, however villain had flopped a boat. Bollocks. 107th place.

Hardly got in a blow yet, but them's the breaks in rushaments I guess.

[the_hawk]

#6: I really can't hit a barn door here. Very typical hand early on - a couple of limpers, I make it 6x to go with AK, one caller from the blinds, I am in position. Checks to me on 9Q9 and snap-shoves over the top of my c-bet.

Then, already getting short, 99 sees a flop of 883. I'm obviously in trouble 4-handed (3 fecking cold-callers again) but in even more trouble than I realise, as it turns out villain has 88.

I try to keep the faith but this playing with other people's money lark is a bit troubling.

[the_hawk]

#7: Well at least that's fairly standard, AK gets up against TT for rather a lot of chips early on and YET AGAIN MISSES THE FECKING BOARD. I quadrupled my tiny stack but it wasn't enough. Out 112th, and three tourneys gone in half an hour without breaking 100th place in any of them and, I believe, never being above starting stack in any of them.

[the_hawk]

#8: Well at least I got above starting stack (and broke 100th), but still about 2,400 chips is my maximum chip count tonight. JJ < AA this time. 68th place.

[the_hawk]

#9: this is how I am running, very first hand:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5828823

So once again I start with little over half a stack. Which doesn't go far when yet again you run underpair into overpair (88 < QQ, both beaten by the mighty A5o).

And also a bit of administration to report. I now realise I have screwed-up on the stakes. The tourneys are $11+1 not $10+1 as I first thought. This means that I will play 46 tourneys rather than 50, for a total seed of $552, and I will eat the $2

Which makes it all the more important that this horrid run ends soon.

[the_hawk]

#10

http://www.pokerhand.org/?5828907

(No, that is a different hand to #9).

[Fenris78]

Just hang in there. We know you can beat the crap out of variance

[MXRider]

speaking from experience in these, hold your head high. It is quite amazing how frustrating they can be, but the eventual payoffs are worth it. Keep The Faith!

[Llanlad]

Just hang in there. We know you can beat the crap out of variance

This has nothing to do with variance ... its Grim at work imo ...

Grim dont give a frig about variance ....

Once he sits on your face and finds it comfortable ... hes never moving ..

Sure he might lift his hairy backside once in a while to let you breath ... but thats only to fart in your face.

[the_hawk]

#11

Nothing changes. To kick off, a steady stream of crap hands, cold-callers, missed flops and my c-bets getting raised causes me to drift down from starting stack. This has been a feature of EVERY tourney in this series except one. ONE start made in 11 tourneys, the rest just chips dribbling away.

Then I face a button steal holding AQo in the BB at a little over 20BB. I push, villain snaps with 99 and obviously flops a set. 88th place.