No Longer Running Good

All good things must come to an end. That must be true or maybe me writing about running good just jinxed me. My winning streak came to a crashing end last night. I played a little over two hours of short-handed Limit HE. (Was multi-tabling three games at once.) At one point I was down 100BBs! I had Aces cracked 5 times, all in cruel sick ways. My draws rarely got there. I don’t know how many times I lost with medium pocket pairs to Ace rag hands. Not only was I running bad but also started to play bad to make things worse. So I decided to take a break to walk my dog and start over again. I started again fresh and started to play lock down poker. Things turned around and I ended the night down 60BBs. Not a great result but felt good about making a comeback. I also played in a Satellite to win an FTOPS seat for their short-handed Limit HE event. Things were going well when we got to the final table with 5 people left. They were giving one seat away and paying 2nd and 3rd a nice chunk of change. I ran into the brick wall again. Second best hands and a lot of missed flops. My final hand was just brutal, flopped two pairs from the big blind. There was an Ace on the board, which I knew he had. I played the hand aggressively to try to build up some chips. The turn and river both came with eights, counterfeiting my two pairs. I got knocked out by Ace rag, the old A-5 off to be exact. Limit HE can be so frustrating. Borgata trip this weekend baby! I can’t wait need some Rest/Relaxation big time. Thanks for reading and good luck at the tables. Tony