Losing with Quads

Been Playing NL 100 on Poker Stars this week, still seeming to get thumped. Here's an example of wishing there was a bad beat jackpot or something

PokerStars Game #7255244248: Hold'em No Limit ($0.50/$1.00) - 2006/12/01 - 16:09:01
(ET) Table 'Lesya' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: devinr12 ($100 in chips)
Seat 2: slickster998 ($90.50 in chips)
Seat 3: ShiftB ($79.15 in chips)
Seat 4: Ross1948 ($32.25 in chips)
Seat 5: J_Money001 ($86.80 in chips)
Seat 6: GenghisCM ($97.90 in chips)
Seat 7: amazinmets73 ($124 in chips)
Seat 8: jchi8 ($56 in chips)
Seat 9: deadmeat65 ($131.25 in chips)
deadmeat65: posts small blind $0.50
devinr12: posts big blind $1
*** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to deadmeat65 [2s 2d]
slickster998: folds
ShiftB: folds
Ross1948: folds
J_Money001: folds
GenghisCM: raises $3 to $4
amazinmets73: folds
jchi8: calls $4
deadmeat65: calls $3.50
devinr12: folds
*** FLOP *** [2c 8c 7c]
deadmeat65: checks ***I check here to see whats out, probably a mistake***
GenghisCM: checks
jchi8: bets $5
deadmeat65: calls $5
GenghisCM: folds
*** TURN *** [2c 8c 7c 10c]
deadmeat65: checks ***I'm Done with the hand now unless the board pairs******
jchi8: checks
*** RIVER *** [2c 8c 7c Tc 2h] **Allright, now to extract money*****
deadmeat65: bets $12
jchi8: raises $20 to $32****Hoping he has the Ac or maybe just got a FH
when the board paired***
deadmeat65: raises $20 to $52
jchi8: calls $15 and is all-in ***Hurray***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
deadmeat65: shows [2s 2d] (four of a kind, Deuces)
jchi8:shows[Jc 9c](a straight flush, Seven to Jack) ***WTF, why are the chips
sliding away??***
jchi8 collected $114 from pot
*** SUMMARY *** Total pot $117 Rake $3 Board [2c 8c 7c Tc 2h]
Seat 8: jchi8 (button) showed [Jc 9c] and won ($114) with a straight flush, Seven to Jack Seat 9: deadmeat65 (small blind) showed [2s 2d] and lost with four of a kind, Deuces


This pretty well describes my PokerStars experience so far....

I did finally sign up for Rake Back with Ultimate Bet through PSO. Have played a few hands, it is taking me awhile to get used to this software. Why in the world do you have to open and close the hand history window every 5 hands?? I finally found a fix for that on the PokerTracker Forum, but I don't understand why they programmed it that way. I did play some .05/.10 Fixed Limit for the first time in a long time just to get Poker Ace HUD setup. I made $2.70 in about 1/2 hour, I Should have kept playing that instead of finding such unique ways to get thumped at Stars.

I played in the Absolute Poker Forum Tournament again Thursday Night. On about the 15th hand I got JdJh and called a raise. Flop was AdJc6d. I checked, then check raised with 1 caller. Turn was 7d, and I pushed allin. My opponent chatted "This is a short tournament for me" and Called With AsJs. River was another diamond, and my hand held up. I then doubled up a couple more times, and I had a 2-1 chiplead over second place from the beginning of the second hour all the way through. I ended up losing a couple of coinflips in the middle of the third hour and finished around 7th or 8th (I think, not 100% sure where I finished) I played well enough though, need to catch the breaks later to win though.

I also played a couple tournaments on Absolute Friday Night. The first one was the slowest table I've ever been on. I think that we got in about 3 or 4 hands every 15 minutes. I busted out in the middle of the second hour in about 100th place (300 started) I had forgotten how the slow play on Absolute during tournaments could sometimes be.

In the other Tournament was a $5.00 buyin $1000 guaranteed. I was the 150th to sign up with 15 minutes before it started, so I was thinking thee may be an overlay. But the tournament started with 350 people, I can't believe how late people in these tournaments sign up. I got cold decked for the first hour, and never could seem to hit a flop. At the first break I was at 940 in chips. Second hour began the same way, and I am pretty sure I never won a hand for the first hour and 20 minutes. Finally, in desperation because I was down to 450 chips, I tripled up with AJ offsuit. 20 minutes and a few doubles later, I was third in the standings. At the end of the second hour I was still 5th in chips. This tournament paid down to about 36th, and there was no hand for hand when we got close. My luck finally broke when, for some Reason, with the blinds at 600 /1200 with a significant ante, I decided that my 33 was a push allin hand when it folded to my button. The small blind woke up with 1010, and had me covered. I had 16,000 chips at the beginning of this hand, and there was no reason to push to steal the blinds. Sometimes I overvalue small pairs too much when I still have a healthy M in the early late stages of tournaments. I still finished in the money, but I have been playing good enough lately that I should have done better. Hopefully by writing about it I can change something. I feel pretty good right now as my tournament game is going pretty well. I can't complain about my cash game either, but I haven't went through a string of such horrible beats for a while. (See Losing with Quads above for just 1 example)

I did post on PSO about Detroit/Windsor area casino's, and KUGR84 gave me a lot of information, which I really appreciate. It looks like he suggests MotorCity so away we go (still not sure when, but soon) My wife also wanted to go to the Indian River Casino, but when I called about getting a room there for December 10th, they said they were all sold out. WTF, why would all the rooms be booked??? I asked the guy on the phone, and he thought that it was the end of 1 promotion and the beginning of another. Hmmm, maybe I should still go and find a different hotel in the area??