This is your brain on Tilt

So the roll dipped under 400 last night. Yeah. Where'd the 450$ go? That's a gooot question. I haven't left the confines of my bankroll management (except playing a few more 10$ tournies after the roll dipped under 500$). I don't THINK I've been playing horribly. There's a couple suspect hands here and there, but nothing that I feel deserves being beaten down for.

I had a brief session last night. My token winning streak came to an end when I went out in 8th in a 18-man 8$ after shoving a rag ace OTB into BB's 88. I played another of the 6.5$ double heads up matches, won my first match after a hellishly long battle, and then got off to a bad start in the 2nd match. It seemed like he was hitting one too many hands...

The hand that ended it was pretty nice. I raise OTB with JT, he calls. The flop is 999. Yehaw. We both check. The turn is a 3. He checks, I lead about 2/3 the pot, he calls. The river comes a T (woot!) and he bets. I don't have a lot left, so I happily shove, he calls, and there it is... Q9. Flopped quads do not deliver this time...

I also played a 5$ 45-man SNG and was doing pretty well.. I was getting good cards, making good plays, and had built up a a nice stack, and was sitting comfortably in 3rd out of 16 about half way through hour two. Then the chip leader gets moved to my table, and on his 3rd hand at the table, I do this. Don't ask, because I don't know. I was feeling frisky, and I felt like he would lay down a lot of the hands he's raising here since I figure he's probably being a bit of a bully, making his range wide, and my stack represents about 2/3 his stack, so my FE is huge.

Hero has K8 in the SB. Folds to hero who calls (first mistake). Villain raises 3x to 1200. (Hero has ~6500, villain has 10K). Hero shoves.

Shoves? I literally hit myself in the face for this afterwards. What's funny is it seems like my play almost worked - because he took a LONG time to call. (He was about half way through his time back). But he did make the call, and he won a massive pot when I couldn't suck out on his QQ.

I could have so easily just folded... Why mess with the chip leader when you're not far off yourself. Just dumb. Dumb dumb dumb.

A win (or even just a half decent cash) is badly needed.