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When you have pocket As getting cracked with KJo (hitting 2 pair on the turn), you know it's just not your day! I think almost all my top hands got beat by inferior hands, such as AQs losing out to A8s (hitting the flush), AK hitting air on a bad looking board (all suited or pair of queens, etc). Anyway, ended up burning my entire bankroll, something I haven't done in years now!

I'll describe in detail the hand where my As got cracked. Honestly, I don't think I would have played them any different, on any other day.

Short Ring: I was CO with As. UTG+1 raises to 2.5 BB, table folds to me, I raise to 10 BB, table folds to UTG+1 who makes the call. The board is Kc 5s 4c. Villain checks, and I fire a pot size bet (21 BB). I was certain he had the K, and was actually quite glad about it at this stage. He'll surely call! And he did. The flop was a Jh. Now, there was a straight and flush draw possibility. I figured, only KJ beats me. But going by the pot size, he'll call with just a K as well. The pot was 2.52 euros (63 bb). Our stack sizes were about a euro more than this. So I shove, in case he's playing a drawing hand, with the K or J. Unfortunately for me, he's playing the K AND the J. I was drawing slim to 8 outs, and as it happens on days like this, I don't hit any of them. Busto!

In the middle of cash sessions, I needed a rest from them, so I gave a tourney a try. This is a 25 cent rebuy super turbo. The tourney has incredible value with a guaranteed pot of 8000 euros! However, this is very different from regular rebuy tourneys! You start with 500 chips, and you can rebuy another 500 any number of times till level 9 (5 mins per level). Where this is different, is that there is no limit to the number of rebuys you can do at once, and there is no chip level required to rebuy. So theoretically, you can start the tourney, and buy an extra 500,000 chips for 250 euros! While I didn't see anyone crazy enough to do this, I did see quite a few 10,000+ chip stacks even before the first hand was dealt! And of course, as is usual for super turbo tourneys, its an all-in fest! I just needed a break from cash, so bought in once, got busted with my pocket 9s, and quit the tourney!

Needless to say, my overall stats have taken a terrible beating after the cash sessions! In the words of Poets of the Falls, maybe tomorrow is a better day!

Cheers!