The TI Head Hunters is just a great live tourney for $125 buy in.  Despite $25 of it going to the house, $50 goes to your head and $50 to the prize pool.  Most players do not adjust for the inflated prize when busting somebody and often let that half of the prizepool slip between their fingers.

Not tonight.

Not only was I the 25th most aggressive of the 35 entries, but the table was full of either ultra-aggros or ultra-calling stations.  I’m not sure if anybody else (besides me) was playing the fiddle in the middle.  Problem was, I couldn’t win a hand for my life.  I busted in 14 hands, having flopped a pair in NINE of them, splitting one pot and losing eight.  It was sickening.  I rebought and it was more of the same.  I rebought for a third and final time and pushed my stack to around 20 BBs for the next 2 hours.  I just couldn’t chip up.  One guy at the table would limp with EVERY hand.  I never once saw him raise preflop all tournament.  It was so incredibly hard to put him on a hand because of this.  It made him rather easy to beat postflop, but he was likely to call you down with top pair just as much as he was with overcards.  Imagine playing against a guy like that.  I made it to the final table and busted 10th without claiming a single bounty.

5 straight tourneys have had me simply card dead or flop dead.  It’s really irritating me.

Binions $200 is Saturday and Stimulus Special Day 1b is on Sunday.