PokerStars $215 1M Guaranteed

I won a $39 satellite to the weekly Stars 1M, so I decided to play it this week.  Last time I played was about a month ago, when I won the same satellite.  Last month, I busted with AA vs. (QQ and 44).

Here’s the hand that finished me off today (well, I actually had T215 left after this hand, but that was barely enough to post the BB):

PokerStars Game #5293116572: Tournament #25836758, $200+$15 Hold’em No Limit – Level VI (100/200) – 2006/06/18 – 18:00:07 (ET)
Table ‘25836758 210′ 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: JoshNjuice (3390 in chips)
Seat 2: quantumshift (1690 in chips)
Seat 3: dr ket (8350 in chips)
Seat 4: sophieday (3725 in chips)
Seat 5: betmann (3175 in chips)
Seat 6: poguemahone1 (6042 in chips)
Seat 7: ELREYDEPOKER (2655 in chips)
Seat 8: malmignatu (5870 in chips)
Seat 9: substance (1645 in chips)
quantumshift: posts small blind 100
dr ket: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to JoshNjuice [As Ah]
sophieday: folds
betmann: calls 200
poguemahone1: folds
ELREYDEPOKER: folds
malmignatu: folds
substance: raises 600 to 800
JoshNjuice: raises 1200 to 2000
quantumshift: folds
dr ket: folds
betmann: raises 1175 to 3175 and is all-in
substance: calls 845 and is all-in
JoshNjuice: calls 1175
*** FLOP *** [Kd 9h Td]
*** TURN *** [Kd 9h Td] [Js]
*** RIVER *** [Kd 9h Td Js] [9c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
betmann: shows [Qc Qd] (a straight, Nine to King)
JoshNjuice: shows [As Ah] (two pair, Aces and Nines)
betmann collected 3060 from side pot
substance: shows [Jh Ad] (two pair, Jacks and Nines)
betmann collected 5235 from main pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 8295 Main pot 5235. Side pot 3060. | Rake 0
Board [Kd 9h Td Js 9c]
Seat 1: JoshNjuice (button) showed [As Ah] and lost with two pair, Aces and Nines
Seat 2: quantumshift (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: dr ket (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: sophieday folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 5: betmann showed [Qc Qd] and won (8295) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 6: poguemahone1 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: ELREYDEPOKER folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: malmignatu folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: substance showed [Jh Ad] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Nines

 Pre-flop, I was 76% to win.  After the flop, I was 73%.  I think this qualifies as a “bad beat”.

What was more frustrating was that I had been card dead the entire tournament, but had been making moves at the right times to stay afloat.  My stats reveal this pretty well:

During current Hold’em session you were dealt 107 hands and saw flop:
 - 2 out of 12 times while in big blind (16%)
 - 4 out of 12 times while in small blind (33%)
 - 9 out of 83 times in other positions (10%)
 - a total of 15 out of 107 (14%)
 Pots won at showdown – 0 of 3 (0%)
 Pots won without showdown – 15

One of those “showdowns” was the AA hand.  Another was my final hand where I moved in with 89o (I had one Big Blind remaining). 

End venting session.  “There’s always next time.”