Win some, Lose some

I played on PokerStars today for the first time in a month. I played three 2-table SitNgos and one free roll sponsored by Poker Web Blogs. I finished 1st and 2nd in two of the SitNGos and 12th in the other. I bubbled the Poker Web Blogs free roll when.

My ouster in the Free Roll was a classic Poker Stars rewarding the large stack's play. I had enough chips to fold my way into the money as payoffs went to the top 54 places and there were 56 runners left out of a few hundred. I get A/K in the BB and raise it up and two limpers call, including the Big Stack. The flop comes down King high with two diamonds. I go all in and the big stack calls and shows the two diamonds in his hand and, of course, the river fills up his flush and IGHN. Bubble Boy. In hind site I guess I should have folded into the money or not gone all in but I was really hoping to double up my chips so I could make a run at the final table.

It was a free roll and I would have won a couple of dollars at most but I had invested my time and had a good hand only to lose to a flush. That seems to be the story of my life in poker.

I was four tabling Full Tilt later in the day and I had already won a couple of buy-ins when I get Ace/Queen. I raise and get one caller. The flop comes down with Ace/rag/rag including two spades. I raise it up big to discourage the flush draw and the villain calls. The turn brings a queen and I have two pair and the villain only has a couple of dollars left. I bet enough to put him all in and he turns over two spades and the river fills up his flush. He just wouldn't fold those spades.

The sad part is that was the only hand he won the whole time I was at that table. Less than 20 hands later he goes bankrupt and leaves. The only hand he won was against me by staying in and hitting his freaking flush.