A Long Tired Session Turns Disastrous

One thing everyone needs to watch out for in a long session is how tired you are actually getting. Its hard to assess this because of the adrenaline that just keeps you awake and keeps you going. However this can have grave consequences. Last night I started playing online at midnight, but was only going to play for about 30 minutes. Well as luck has it, I dropped 1.5 buy ins at 1/2 NL in the first 15 minutes to some bad beats followed by a bad play. Great, now it was going to be a long night. Swinging about 3.5 buy ins I finally finished at 6AM down about 1 buy in. Only problem now was that it was time for the tourament at the casino. I arrived at the casino 3 hours early for registration and needed some time to kill before it started. So I hopped into a friendly 2/4 limit game that turned into a 3/6 game per everyones request. This was a huge mistake. I dropped 120 dollars in 2 hours, getting no cards and picking up zero pots. This didn't leave me in a good emotional state for the tourney, but I was determined to play well. In the first few hands I was dealt 22 in late positoin and raised it up, getting a caller that limped in from early positoin. The flop was A54 and he check raised me and I had to fold. I watched this player carefully for several hands after this and he seemed to check raise with big hands. A few hands later I was dealt QQ in late position and someone raised it up to 200 (blinds 25-50 with 5K average stack). I reraised making it 800 to go. To my dislike, I had two callers out of the blinds and the original raiser called. The flop came 952 two diamonds and it was checked to me. I bet out 1500 into a 3275 pot confidant that my hand was best. Sure enough the guy who I had been watching closely check raised me to 3000. I figured that he would have reraised with AA or KK. The possible hands that I could put him on were AK (which was unlikely because he didn't check raise with garbage), JJ or maybe TT. There was now 7775 and there was no way I was folding for my last 1900, afterall I should have the hand won right? Wrong. The guy flips over 99 for a set of nines, and I was drawing to a case Q after the original raiser told me he had AQ. What a shitty way to bust in the tourney. I wonder if I have had more sleep that I would have done better. Its hard to say, but it couldn't have hurt. Anyways, more stories later from the Untouchables team.

-Victum