By nath on June 23rd, 2007 (more posts by author)

Ugh, I feel like I never have time to write these out in full. Anyway, a quick summary before I leave:

Wednesday was day 2 of the heads up event and I lost my first match to Toto Leonidas after playing for a solid 2 1/2 hours. I didn't get the breaks I needed; I feel like I did a great job running up from a short stack, pushing often and piling up chips with sheer aggression. Unfortunately, he found a couple of hands at the right time, I couldn't win a showdown, and with 20BB in play, there's just no other way to finish off the match.

Then Thursday I bubbled the final table of the Bellagio Cup's $2500 event. 10th place, no money.

Obviously frustrating times. I'm playing well; I'm sure of that. And this is just another example of the sick variance involved in playing live tournaments. And you can't let it affect your game... if you want to be a winning tournament player, if you want to reach the heights of your profession, you have to be stronger than that, you can't let bad runs affect your play. In short, you have to get over them.

Anyway, I'm going to play the $1500 today. I'll have a more complete report of everything in the next day or two, I hope.