I am horrible at deepstacked NL. For roughly the last 2K hands i'm down like $60 at NL10 on stars the past couple weeks. That isn't too many hands, but ugh it's just frusturating, all my TPTKs seem to run themselves into sets and my sets get absolutely no action regardless of how I play them.

I've been playing tournaments like crazy, this weekend I have played 15 MTTs or mutle table SNGs with an ROI of 37.30% which is pretty decent for these levels.

I've been working a little bit on the $4.40 180-person SNGs on PS. I haven't cashed yet after 4 recent attempts, but I like the tournament structure, compared to the turbos you have plenty of time to sit back in the 80-30player section. So far I've busted in 20th-30th twice to some lost coinflips, my TT against AQ and KQ, and also my AK agsinst AQ, that was a very tough one to take as it would have made me chipleader of the table with about 24 people left.

This is a strange bad beat that I suffered to bust out of another 180SNG:

PokerStars Game #8529784695: Tournament #43449075, $4.00+$0.40 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2007/02/20 - 00:01:40 (ET)
Table '43449075 5' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 2: biggy69 (1795 in chips)
Seat 3: youngloan (2750 in chips)
Seat 4: ypsi_eagle (1830 in chips)
Seat 5: astrodg (1440 in chips)
Seat 6: TMC8964 (2420 in chips)
Seat 7: ompenur7 (2765 in chips)
Seat 8: TbellBrad23 (1535 in chips)
Seat 9: nutman12 (1445 in chips) is sitting out
ypsi_eagle: posts small blind 15
astrodg: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to astrodg [8s 8c]
TMC8964: folds
ompenur7: folds
TbellBrad23: calls 30
nutman12: folds
bencoop227 is connected
biggy69: folds
youngloan: raises 90 to 120
ypsi_eagle: folds
astrodg: raises 380 to 500
TbellBrad23: calls 470
youngloan: calls 380
*** FLOP *** [Kd 4c 2c]
astrodg: bets 940 and is all-in
TbellBrad23: calls 940
nutman12 has returned
youngloan: folds
*** TURN *** [Kd 4c 2c] [7s]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 4c 2c 7s] [3h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
astrodg: shows [8s 8c] (a pair of Eights)
TbellBrad23: shows [Ad 5s] (a straight, Ace to Five)
astrodg said, "lol nice"
TbellBrad23 collected 3395 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3395 | Rake 0
Board [Kd 4c 2c 7s 3h]
Seat 2: biggy69 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: youngloan (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 4: ypsi_eagle (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: astrodg (big blind) showed [8s 8c] and lost with a pair of Eights
Seat 6: TMC8964 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: ompenur7 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: TbellBrad23 showed [Ad 5s] and won (3395) with a straight, Ace to Five
Seat 9: nutman12 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Talk about a strange call, but whatever, I was only about 17% to lose anyway, it's not like he didn't have outs.

I've been busting out of some 45 turbos in equally annoying ways, i'm 2/6 cashing in them this weekend, but still NO WINS. I had a 3rd and a 4th. MEH I'll win one very soon, they turn into push fests late, I keep losing 60-40s or 55-45s to stay out of the bigger money.

I also cashed in 2/2 27person $11 SNGs, this one isn't a turbo either, it's a good tournament structure if you want to spend 2-3 hours, yet NO WINS. a 3rd and a 4th as well =/

So other than not winning tournaments and sucking at NL cash, I feel good about poker. I am very comfortable playing MTTs at the moment and confident in my skillz at these limits. $4.40, $6.50 and $11 MTT SNG players sucxors.

ive only played a handful of 4.40s and they seem really soft, ive won 2 and got a 4th and a 8th