Another disappointing sunday.....

Once again i played in both of the big Sunday tournaments on stars and full tilt and was unable to cash in either. In the stars tournament i just couldn't get anything at all going. I picked up aces and kings within the first hour but obviously both times i raised everyone insta folded and every time i didn't want action i got it. Also out of the 6500 people in the tournament you would think i would be at a table of nobodies but of course i had to good 25/50 regulars at my table so that sucked. I only made it half way through the 2nd hour of play before getting all in with 77 vs. kk. gg me and gg $370. The full tilt tournament was a $530 buy in and was giving away around 140 seats with about 300 entrants. My table was pretty weak so i was able to pick up some small pots until this hand came up. The blinds were at 30/60 and we both had a little over 3k in chips at this point. I have 77 utg so i limp in, it folds around to the bb who was a weak player but was raising a lot of pots, i just call. Flop comes down aj7 rainbow and i decide to fire out a kind of small bet of around 150 into the 450 pot and he just calls. The turn is a 6 of hearts and with the pot around 750 i bet out like 450 hoping to get raised but yet he just calls again. The river comes down the 3 of hearts making the board aj763 with now 3 hearts and I'm still very confident in my set. I bet out like 800 on the river praying to get called and wouldn't u know it he instantly min raises it to 1600?? As soon as he did this i was 100% sure i was beat but i just don't see how i can throw it away at this point so i call, he turns over j9 of hearts for a runner runner flush so sick. That left me with like 300 chips but i was able to build back up to around 3k before getting it all in with aq vs. ak gg me. It was another pretty disappointing Sunday in the big tournaments but luckily i had played some plo on both sites before the tournaments and was able to win my buy ins. The big tournaments didn't go well but i did play in a $55 tourney while i was playing the others and made a pretty deep run. There were like 1200 people in it with first paying 14k and i got all the way down to 23rd place for a weak $230, disappointing. I am disappointed because i feel like i keep getting so close but end up busting out for barely any money but at the same time I'm very happy with how Ive been playing. I think that with all these deep runs i am due for a final table and no better time than while i am in Vegas next week. Well that sums up yesterdays mess and I'm about to start up a session so check back later for that and I'm out.

-Nechita-