-190 @ The Commerce Casino

I had small ups and downs most of the day and three hours into my session I was ahead $10. Then disaster struck: In an hour I was down $200.

The entire day I had trouble making my hands and the last hour was miserable. None of my pocket pairs ever translated into a pot (including the flopped set of queens and pocket kings that I mucked on the river because of an A and a flush possibility [my opponent had both!]) and many of my other hands failed too. I was playing high value hands but the missed cards (and some bad plays on my part) just kept eating away at my stack. I was involved with capping the pot pre-flop at least three times (pocket Q, pocket K, and A,K) so there was lots of money if something had hit.

The most annoying hand of the night is when I had pocket 8s and the flop comes A,A,2. The guy bets and with a jackpot possibility of course I have to call. The same thing happens with the 3 on the turn. The river was a blank so I was finally able to fold.