90% Genius 10% Dumbass

I only palyed 4 SnGs (2 at a time) last night....(lost wasn't on, why didn't I go out with friends??). For a change, in the first 2, I was chip leader one and 2nd in the other really early; I was dominating the field....but how easily that will change.

Playing solid takes a lot of patience. Now, I'm not an irrational man, but I do have an occasion to get a little "distracted." I'm not saying I get confident, but you do get reads and you think you can play people.

What happens though, is something that isn't written in books....

So the deck has been hitting you in the face lately....not great cards, but you are 5 handed and you have gotten 3 consecutive pairs, 88, 77, 66, (no crap) and you've done nothing but take the blinds. You also have a recent memory where you had KK and you had to make the same 4x BB raise that you had been making because you didn't want to be read yourself....so you want action....you are almost TIRED OF BEING THE CHIP LEADER. [Don't worry, that'll change soon]

So you get that marginal hand A9o where you bring it in for a standard raise on 100/200 blinds and you get called by 2 people representing the table police. Of course the flop looks like rags, pairs the A on the turn, and I lose to a baby set on the river. I love agression, but sometimes you really have to throw away a great hand when shorthanded if you are bullying the table or if you don't hit the flop too squarely.

It sucked. I think I finished 4th after leading all the way there.