Am I cursed?

I tried one of the Pitbull freerolls. I came in 65 out of 300, and never had to rebuy. There was a 0.25 addon at the first break, so no big loss here. I can do better. I will need to do better next weekend in Vegas.

I went back to FullTilt and joined a 6-man $30 SNG. Second hand I get AA. I raise and get the bigblind to call. The flop comes 8TQ rainbow. He bets, I raise, he goes allin, I call. He has JQo, an inside straight draw and top pair. The turn brings the 9 and I am out. I played another SNG, no luck. I then try a multi-table tourney to change things up, no money. Pot Limit Omaha SNG, nada.

The next day I played in the NPPL $2 tourney on Mansion. Lost. Then enter a 6 player turbo SNG on FullTilt, in the money, secondplace. Man, that was a long losing streak. I should have won, but headsup I was dealt 22, and being about even in chips and the blinds very high, I flop a set when my opponent, akaHorse, goes allin. I call and he shows A6o with a board of 29T rainbow. The turn brings a 7, and the river an 8. He gets a miracle straight and I scratch my head and wonder if I should be happy or disappointed.

On this semi-high, I went out to a local Amateur Series Poker tournament. Less than 20 people showed up. Most of the players were passive, so I was able to steal a great deal. Early on, I busted out the guy to my right and was bigstack. I started playing almost every hand, since no one was raising preflop unless they had a strong hand. One hand I played 45o, got raised by guy to my left, I called. Flop came with a 67T. I make a semi-bluff bet, he calls. The turn brings my 8, giving me the ass-end of the straight. I think back to his preflop raise and try to see if he could have the 9. I am confident he does not have 9J. Maybe A9. More likely AJ AQ. I make a bet, he raises me. It was only $500 more to me, to a $4000 pot, so I called. He turned over 99. I am no longer bigstack. I keep my aggressive style, stealing many blinds and limps. When it got down to 3, I was chip leader again. I raised 4x the BB UTG (under the gun) with JJ, SB calls,BB calls. The flop brings a J, the SB goes allin, the BB calls allin, I call. SB had AA, BB had AK. My set holds up and I will the tournament. I won bar credit and entry into the monthly $5000 tournament. Too bad I will be in Vegas for it. Hopefully I can use it another month.

Feeling better about my poker game, and life, I head downtown early for a suprise birthday dinner for my friend Natalie. I have my van, since my car battery died, and I think the computer needs to be reset when I recharged the battery, and it is too cold outside to work on it. I pull into the parking garage closest to the restaurant. I barely make it under the 6' 6" clearance sign. I make it down into the garage and the ceiling looks awefully low. I hit a hanging sign. Luckily the sign swings, so it doesnt do any damage. I round the first corner, and proceed to get wedged under the ceiling. I can not go forwards or backwards. I am blocking the car behind me from getting through since it is a one-way garage. I really did not feel like letting the air out of my tires, but knowing no other way I can get out, I hop out of my van. The guy behind me gets out of his car and tells me he will stand on the back of my van while I try to reverse back out. My van doesnt move, but as he begins to jump up and down on my van, I hear the ceiling tear and I am free again. I try to go around the other way to see if I can find an exit. GOing very slowly, I hit the ceiling around the other corner. Luckily I was going slow enough not to get stuck. I go back to the gate where I came in, and call the attendant. He comes down, and after arguing with me that I could not get stuck if I made it under the clearance sign at the entrance, he opens the gate and lets me go back up the entrance.

I could be cursed, but I will always smile and laugh through it. At least everyone at dinner found the humor in it also. I am ready to Bust Some Fools tomorrow.