Somethings are going well though. The sat with the QT incident, I managed, through good solid poker to make it though. It was touch and go for a while with me running 20 out of 21, then 18 out of 18, but then two average stacks went for it and I scrapped though - 4000 fpp thank you very much.

Also the QQ hand with the KKK community cards is going well too. Currently on 8.3k in 50 out of 80 and there is 58 seats in the VIP monthly $100k freeroll.

I do actually think I'm an ok player. When I get busted out, most of the time, it's either making a move and running into a monster (earlier had to move in a Laddies tourney with T9s and ran into KK) or a beat as posted previously. OK the QQ one, I was lucky to hit trips, but I'm sticking by that KKK on the flop/turn/river is a real cooler.

Made it!

With blinds of 1.5k/3k and me on 1.4k in chips, I made it through to the $100k freeroll!

Not a totally bad night, overcame my bad beats and still qualified in the tourneys that they happened in.

Oh and again

In all seriousness, I may have to quit Stars, I seem to be on a roll of losing to amazing community cards. The latest example is from the 400 fpp to the 4000fpp EPT sat. Flop was called for pot odds really, 2.7/1 isn't that bad in the early stages but KK on the river to give the chancer with A7 the hand is taking the piss.

I'm trying to work out if I play better on other sites than Stars and that's the reason why I'm on an a downward spiral there, but things like this just don't help me. Perhaps I haven't played enough on other sites to have a fair analysis of hands yet, but at the moment, I'm pretty upset with the site.

Average night really. Went out of the $50 $25k guaranteed on Stars with AA against a TTT board and matey held QTo. Played on a cash table and lost my buy in when someone with AT kept calling my pot sized bets on a QJ4 flop (I had QJ) and then the 7 turn and got lucky when the K came on the river. Few hands later he kept calling again for a straight (gutshot) and hit on the river again! Had 2 pairs in both but couldn't shake him so I decided to cut my losses for the night there.

Played the $18 rebuy on Blonde and made the money though, $235 (I think) so it pays for the night. I may give Stars a miss for a bit, I can't seem to do much there at the moment. I'm going to give cash games a miss for a bit for sure and I think I'll just play tourneys. It's nice to have Silver status on Stars but it doesn't do much for me. The VIP FPP freerolls are usually at bad times for me and I'm not sure what else I actually get out of it. The points are ok, but I don't really know what I'm going to do with them. I'd like the Canon EOS camera but it's 54,000 and I'm only on 9.5k so it's miles off, so I think I'll let my Silver status go this month, although I am only 598 points away from it - that's only 2/3 good nights cash playing really, trouble is I don't want to lose any more money! Actually thinking back, it was PL I lost at tonight, NL I can just bet more and he'd piss off hopefully. Maybe I'll take a couple of days off the cash and see how I get on. I was going to work the FT bonus off this month so it would be a shame to give up completely.

I quite like the $20k on Tribecca. If I can get through the rebuy cheaply, then I'm well away. It's the tourney I had my biggest cash on earlier in the year and the decent cash tonight all helps. Perhaps I'll play it more often and see how we go.

The new year started off ok. 3rd day and I'm a third of the way to retaining silver already and I have worked off the bonus requirement too!

I had made a slight profit for the games too, probably a couple of hundred up which I was well happy with.

Tonight started off badly with my KK preflop raise to $8 being called by A5 off suit and then I lost a buy in when he obviously called my bet on the 243 flop. I had grinded most back and got up to $140 on one table and $40 on the other. Then I lost the biggest pot I've ever lost

Shit, I've just bust out of the $5 rebuy to some wanker that had too many chips and liked his Jack Two Sooted to much.

A night of beats and annoyance. I'll be over it tomorow. Good job I got that $150 bonus because it's gone already!

Happy New Year.

edit: Two hands have gone my way. My $40 table was down to $20 and I hit trip 5's and got paid off, back to $40, then this hand paid off
I was pushing it with the flush draw and wasn't risking it again on the turn. When he raised on the river, I thought I'd blown it but thankfully he didn't have anything to worry about. I'm not so sure I played it that well though to be honest.

lol and the guy that's paid me off then has just done it again for another $20. Back up to $100. At least I can go to bed happier now!

Edit again: Pleased, really pleased. My last hand of the night and I get AA utg! I'm only hoping for a couple of dollars extra and would have been pleased if I just took the blinds really (it's been one of those nights!) but thankfully I got paid off again. I was pleased the guy with the big stack got out, I was a bit worried about losing all my cash to him and leaving with nothing but once he folded, I was still leaving with $60 minimum.

Anyway, finished the whole night only down about $50 from cash games, pretty bloody good considering. Shame about the losses though, I'd have been up about $300 otherwise! Not arguing though, it's been a great finish.