I played 2 $700 mtts (plus one yesterday) to try and win my way to the PokerStars Carribean Adventure today.  Unlike last year, when I won 2 of these tournaments, I didn’t have any step 5 tickets to use.  The fact that the steps never seem to run that often is really killing my bottom line, especially when you get cards like I did today.  In those two tournaments, I got zero cards.  I also never really had a good shot to steal any pots.  Looking at my stats from those two tournaments, I played only 5% of all hands dealt to me.  It was that bad!  The good hands I did play, didn’t go so well either.  Its kind of hard to do anything when you ohhhhh say… run KK into AA, AK into KK, and run AK into AA.  So basically half the hands I played was just a set up cooler!  Yeah, real normal!  So -$1,400 there.

I also played the Sunday Million today.  I decided to play uber-loose from the get-go.  It worked to, because before I knew it I had complete control of my table.  People were scared to play any pots with me since I tried to show an image of someone not willing to fold.  So when I got played back at, I pretty much knew what they had.  It was beautiful.  Then as we were approaching the bubble with about 50% more in chips than the average stack, I get QQ and get in a clash with another pretty big stack in which he decided to shove AK.  Of course I can’t win flips on Stars, so busto there before the money.  I almost feel like I should just fold when it is a suspected coinflip (though I was ahead and was getting laid the odds) and just keep abusing the table with a ton of non-showdown wins.  Sigh.

PLUS, I am not running normal in 5 card draw on Stars.  I haven’t been running normal since the end of July.  Though I did post Friday night that I was running good, and I didn’t want to go to sleep…..well, I wish I hadn’t gone to sleep because boy had the cards changed!  I am down $398 since Friday.  I know, I know….it doesn’t sound like much.  But I did just have a heads-up session where I won almost 1k to make it back to that number.  Before that, I was down almost $1,400 basically just getting outdrawn left and right.  I had a few hours there where all of the trips that were dealt to me couldn’t hold up to win.  It was demoralizing.

BUT, at least now I have Full Tilt to lean back on.  Because I have been winning there.  In fact, I am now up well over 3k there since Thursday, the day they introduced draw.  I am up $517.50 there today alone.  So, at least something is going right for me.

Whats the difference?  Mostly the players on PokerStars are better.  But that is not it, I am just not on the right side of variance right now at PokerStars.  Hopefully things will change soon though.  Also, I wish there was more options to win a seat to the PCA, because those $700 mtt’s get expensive!  Those $75 rebuys ($82 buyin) that start in the early afternoon are more down my alley, I just wish they offered those sometime when I could play more of them.  The 33r’s are a luckfest, and those too can get extremely expensive as seen by my run for the 2010 WSOP.

Oh well…..

Amount to 60k: $32,231.96

So, not a good weekend.