Man, it's so sick how I always find a way to bust in either the third or fourth level.

Apparently, that is where my skill level lies in WSOP tournaments... good enough to last the first two levels, but not good enough to tough it out past level four!!

My table today was the typical weak loose/passive table one would expect in a relatively small buyin tournament, and I made a couple of mistakes.

One of them was when I had KcQc - a gentleman raised preflop to 75 and I elected to call, as did three other players (why wouldn't they).

The flop came Ac 6x 3x and the flop checked through.

The turn was the 4c, giving me the nut flush draw.

Preflop raiser now bet 200 on the turn, which I called...

It folded to an elderly gentleman who had earlier thought for some time before calling an all-in raise on AK6 while he was holding KK.

He raised to 600, and the preflop raiser called.

Obviously I called too, and the river peeled off the 6c, giving me the nut flush but also pairing the board.

We checked, and elderly gentleman bet 800 (into 2200 or something).

PFR folded, and I really knew I should fold.

There's just no way he ever turns over a non full house there ever... So even with those odds it's a bad call I think.

But I called because of some Party Poker induced 'if hes bad enough to take this line hes bad enough to show up with some dumb hand' bullshit that still plagues me and he had the obvious 44.

My table was all unknowns except one guy who was wearing his WSOP bracelet - I recognised him from tv, he won one of the televised events a couple of years ago and there was some shit about his dad playing too in the coverage or maybe the main event coverage later that year or something, I don't know, anyway he was pretty bad and was limping a ton.

At 50/100 I had 1900 and he openlimped MP, before the next two players who were both relatively competent elected to overlimp as well...

I was next to act in the cutoff, and obviously planning to shove a really wide range.

I looked down at first card K, and was just thinking cmon, give me a suited 5, give me anything... but it was the offsuit two and I elected to fold.

Within a few seconds I really started regretting it and I'm pretty sure in hindsight I'm actually supposed to shove even 32o there.

None of the three musketeers are EVER calling there, it was super obvious, so it's either a blind wakes up with TT+AQ+ (they were nits) or I take down the pot (I'm too lazy to stove but I'm pretty certain that makes 32o a push).

Both those hands are obviously a bit unorthodox in terms of mistake making but they're the sorts of extremes in specific decisions you need to get to to really play well live, I think.

You really do get a lot of information.

But meh, other than that I just waited forever for good spots, treaded water, and finally got it in with 22 vs AK and lost, zzz.

Tomorrow I'm staying home and playing the Sundays, which I was really looking forward to until I spent the last two nights trying to get Windows working on my laptop (has been maybe a 6 week battle now and is the reason I haven't made any videos for a while).

I have two XP cds in my suitcase and now two copies of Vista...

The first copy I bought from Walmart and when I got home it turned out the cd had been stolen from inside (lol) and the second copy I also bought from Walmart and it turned out to be UPGRADE ONLY ie. you need to already have a fucking copy of Windows installed to install it.

With the XP discs I don't have a product key and haven't been able to get one for the life of me (they don't sell them online anymore).

So I can only play Stars/FT tomorrow, which is really disappointing as I haven't played a full Sunday schedule since SCOOP and I was looking forward to it

The last two months have been a lot like travelling around getting punched in the face in a new way each day.

Being in Vegas has been good for my mental state though so far (how fucked up is that when you think about it) and I'm feeling pretty positive.

The house we have is pretty ballin, and I've bumped into a few guys around the place and am looking forward to starting to go out as more and more people get into town.

Would be nice to upswing soon ;[