A day of tournaments

Needed a mental break from cash games and loaded up some tournaments, the only ones availible were a little over my bankroll, buts it is fine i am pretty over bankrolled for my regular nl5 games anyway.

Started the day off with the 31.50$ Short deck bounty, managed to grab a few bounties and finish a dissapointing 3rd AQo vs AJs, both opponents were losing players so a hold would have been nice but thats the game i guess.

After the 31.50 there was only the 21$ short deck bounty running so i guess we are in. Started off pretty bad losing AK vs AQ for a buy in, but hey its shortdeck, it happens. Reg again and go, first hand AA and an all in infront of me, he has KK. Flop comes TT8, im happy, and then the turn... a K, oh well guess we are out again. Third buy in i see QQ, shove against 3 limps and run into AK. This was getting expensive buy hey, nothing better running so back to it. Like always 4th times the charm, get dealt T9s and i see 3 all ins, easy call to be honest and we hit the straight for a quadruple, here we go boys! Spent the rest of the tournament playing pretty tight, picking up a few small bounties and then it happened, top4 in the money, i am reluctant to shove my 2 pair on the turn but the pot is big, luckily we see a call from QJ, im dancing on my chair while the river card slowly opens a Q on the river, the pain is real. Lost hundreds of $ in EV on a 92% all in.

Still some energy left i open up the 10.50 short deck bounty, kind of fuming but there was only 1 regular in the entire tournament, life is great. I keep crushing everyone in the tournament, seemed like i was destined to run myself into a sweet profit and then, on the stone cold bubble this happens, from a massive stack and chip lead into nothing.

In recap this hurts, could have made a huge profit, but you cant choose your luck, just make good decisions and eventually it will happen.

Total cashes : 259.76$

Buy ins : 126$

Profit : 133.76$

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