No more smooth sailing.

Ever since my first two adventures with the mini step tourneys, it has been harder than shit to advance consistently in those things. I played 6 of them last night, I started off in 2^nd step and made it up to the 3^rd, only to get knocked back down to 2^nd.

I played the first 2^nd step and got top two right off the bat. Started the 3^rd step and took a river beat about 6 hands into it to lose a little portion of my stack. $10/15 level, I had J4 in the bb and it there were 6 callers no raisers. I check the flop is 44T I got trips, WOO HOO. I check and the next guy throws out $50 into a $105 pot. Call, call, call, fold, fold; alright $305, I decide to take it down right there and I bump it $250, but low and behold I get a caller. So I’ve got $685 left the pot has $805 in it. The turn is a 7, I bet $175, call. $510 left, he must have a ten. River, F’ING 10, I check he bets $100 I call, he turns over KT and I’m sitting ugly with ten people still in it. I wound up doubling up and making it down to 4^th and getting a re-entry, thanks to some foolish plays by other that had gotten short stacked.

So I played the second the 3^rd step and wound up getting knocked down to the 2^nd step again. I can’t recall the hands from all of those I know there were several times that the chip leader would fold to an all in raise, where he would have only had to have called $150 or so more, when the blinds were around $150/300. It’s like giving money away, that pisses me off to know extent. I just screws everyone else over, oh well. I plan on playing more steps tonight and hopefully getting up to the 5^th pretty soon. I’ll have to start off in the 2^nd again tonight.