WSOP Tourney - Cruel Poker Gods

The WSOP tournement at a local casino did not go as well as I would have liked.
I had a good chip stack early, and couldn't have asked for better hole cards.

Nothing like sitting down for the first hand and being dealt AA :-D
The cards kept coming, QQ, AK, AK, QQ.

The AK held up nicely as I kept betting into a caller to the river (no A or K on the board), and Ace high was good for the pot. This happened against the same player twice.

Where as AK held up nicely for me, QQ was hurting me terribly. Both times I went Head to Head with a very good player, I folded them both times as each time an Ace fell on the board followed by big opening bets (He says he had AK both times, and Im 99.9% sure he did indeed have it at least one time).

Then, I get AA again in EP. I raise 3x BB, MP raises it to 6X BB (a very good and tight player). I knew he had a good hand. I push all in, he calls without a second thought. We both have about the same amount of chips.
He turns over his KK, and I'm sure Im doubling up here.
I just sank in my chair when a King, 1 of the 2 cards of the 47 remaining that could beat me come on the flop. He now has Trips, and no more help for me.
For any poker gods that may be reading/listening, I am growing very tired of this little joke. Please stop...

Oh, and as for my arch-nemesis Mr. AK who I kept butting heads with, he went on to win it.
Congratulations and Best of Cards to you in the WSOP!

Hammering the Short Stack and Doublin Up

No more ring games for me, and I'll elaborate in a later post. Basically, for whatever reason, I am just getting killed in ring games.
So its Tourneys and SNG's only for me.

Last night on PP, I did 4 $10 SNG's, finishing 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.
SNG Higlight of the Night:

***** Hand History *****
300/600 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) - Fri Apr 01 01:09:06 EST 2005
Table (Real Money) -- Seat 6 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 6: Seat6 (2040)
Seat 9: So_M0ney (790)
Seat 10: Seat10 (5170)
So_M0ney posts small blind (150)
Seat10 posts big blind (300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to So_M0ney [ 2d, 7h ]
Seat6 folds.
So_M0ney raises (450) to 600
Seat10 raises (600) to 900
So_M0ney calls (190)
So_M0ney is all-In.
Creating Main Pot with $1580 with So_M0ney all in
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 2s, 9h, Ts ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 5d ]
** Dealing River ** : [ 7s ]
** Summary **
Main Pot: 1580 | Side Pot 1: 110
Board: [ 2s 9h Ts 5d 7s ]
Seat6 balance 2040, didn't bet (folded)
So_M0ney balance 1580, bet 790, collected 1580, net +790 [ 2d 7h ] [ two pairs, sevens and twos -- Ts,7h,7s,2d,2s ]
Seat10 balance 4380, bet 900, collected 110, lost -790 [ Tc 6c ] [ a pair of tens -- Tc,Ts,9h,7s,6c ]

So_M0ney: Hammer Time!