No I'm Not

Playing awfully + unable to catch cards = -$480.

A million tournaments run on Sunday that everyone loves to play because all the prize pools are bloated by dead money from the weekend warriors. Rather than tearing through these, I think I like to play down to my level of competition. You wanna limp? Sure, let's limp. Wow you're only min donk betting into a 3 way hand that was raised pre-flop? Guess I have to call. You know, crap like that. I was also pissed because I didn't get to sleep til like 6 and by the time the dogs were walked and the coffee was drank it was like 3 pm and I missed most of the big ones. To make up for lost time and keep to my volume requirements I jumped into the $215 Stars second chance. $215 is a little out of my comfort zone unless I'm satelliting in. That tourney I actually played pretty well in for the hour or so I was in it, probably because I cared about it 10x more than the other tournaments I was in at the time But I took a bad beat with JJ against 99 and that was about all she wrote. 

So clearly I need to make use of my alarm clock. There's a rush tourney I love to play on Full Tilt that runs at 11:45 my time and I've been awake in time to play it like once in the past two weeks. That's pretty sad. 11:45 isn't exactly the ass crack of dawn.

So here's one hand that I played like crap:

Full Tilt Poker Turbo $10K Guarantee (Rush) No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t250/t500 Blinds + t50 - 9 players - View hand 1272328
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BTN: t9870 M = 8.22
SB: t10622 M = 8.85
BB: t10646 M = 8.87
UTG: t14787 M = 12.32
UTG+1: t28751 M = 23.96
UTG+2: t11788 M = 9.82
MP1: t14250 M = 11.88
Hero (MP2): t13710 M = 11.43
CO: t11710 M = 9.76

Pre Flop: (t1200) Hero is MP2 with Q Q
2 folds, UTG+2 raises to t1000, 1 fold, Hero raises to t2500, 2 folds, SB calls t2250, 1 fold, UTG+2 raises to t4500, Hero calls t2000, SB calls t2000

Flop: (t14450) 3 J 5(3 players)
SB checks, UTG+2 bets t7238 all in, Hero folds, SB folds

Final Pot: t14450
UTG+2 wins t14450


Not sure what I was thinking. Clearly a jam or fold pre. Most of the time I'd jam here, but I think this one was an easy fold. He 4 bets small out of position into a 3 better and someone who called 3 cold? Not deep enough to set mine, and even though no overs came, it's not exactly a perfect flop since either of these guys could have jacks and I was stuck between em. But obviously if I'm calling pre, I need to call the flop and hope for AK.

This is what busted me out of the second chance tourney after the JJ v 99 thing:

Poker Stars $200+$15 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t75/t150 Blinds - 9 players - View hand 1272350
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MP2: t2997 19.98 BBs
CO: t7573 50.49 BBs
BTN: t7360 49.07 BBs
SB: t1095 7.30 BBs
Hero (BB): t2510 16.73 BBs
UTG: t4935 32.90 BBs
UTG+1: t5925 39.50 BBs
UTG+2: t1830 12.20 BBs
MP1: t2085 13.90 BBs

Pre Flop: (t225) Hero is BB with A Q
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to t400, 3 folds, CO calls t400, 2 folds, Hero raises to t2510 all in, UTG+1 raises to t5925 all in, 1 fold

Flop: (t5495) 7 8 J(2 players - 2 are all in)

Turn: (t5495) J(2 players - 2 are all in)

River: (t5495) 6(2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: t5495
Hero shows A Q (a pair of Jacks)
UTG+1 shows A K (a pair of Jacks - Ace+King kicker)
UTG+1 wins t5495

UTG+1 was running tight numbers and I was thinking of just folding pre. Once the other guy limped along who I wasn't worried about at all, I went with a squeeze that AQ is neither strong enough nor weak enough to really pull off correctly in this situation. I wasn't even sure if I was bluffing or not which is pretty much never a good situation to be in. Obviously in hindsight I should have just stuck with my fold, but maybe this one was just unavoidable. Thoughts?