Wildhorse. The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves.

Wildhorse continues to frustrate me. Playing Omaha/8 before the tournament yesterday I ran up a $90 profit. The tournament I played lots of hands early (my plan) and just had tons of second bests. When the blinds escalated I was short stack at our table until finally getting all my chips in multiway and hogging a nice stack. Lost most of them back on a monster draw (straight plus nut flush draws). The guy who won it became chip leader. Finally, in the big blind I pick up A/2/3/8 (a wonderful starting hand) when the UTG player raises. Everyone else folds and I happily put my last chips in. He shows A/2/x/Q for almost the same hand. Flop is A/4/x giving me nut low draw. Turn and River blank and he knocks me out with his pair of aces with queen kicker. I finished about 125th out of 244 players.

Returning to the cash game it was ugly early. One old fart kept rivering everyone. I flopped a straight in a kill pot (8/16) and he called my raise with pocket 4's. He caught a 4 on the turn and another on the river for quads. Sick. After 2 rebuys finally started winning and cashed out for $220, a net $10 profit. Whoopee!!!!