More Bubbling

This hurts ... my first attempt at the $75 token frenzy madness for Sunday's Big Game ended painfully like so:


I flopped second pair with an inside straight draw (QJ on an ATx flop) when I was comfortably in the money vs. the chipleader at my table and a shorty. He min-bet the flop and I c/r allin for another 6K in an attempt to bust the shorty and the bubble.

Instead the chipleader found a call with TPNK (A6) and I couldn't hit my half of the deck.

Pretty disappointing lapse of discipline, considering I was making big laydowns left and right during the bubble period, even going so far as to fold AQ under the gun preflop. ;)

I should have check-folded or led out myself and just checked it down once I got a call. I would have preserved enough of my stack to earn a token that way.

At least I won my freakin' buyin back. Sigh.

A Lost Cause

Signs that your cause in a satellite tournament is hopeless:

You lose a ton of chips playing raised pots with AK unimproved to J3s and Q7 in blind vs. blind situations;

The one time your AK makes the nut straight (on the turn), you can't get any action from a worse hand that hit the flop hard;

You can't get a one-pair hand to fold to a large check-raise and neither your nut flush draw nor your overcard hits;

All three of your blind steals over the course of three hours are snapped off;

The best player at the table doubles up early.

Ah well. Sooner or later I'll recover from this blasted flu bug and hopefully my decision-making at the tables will likewise improve.