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Last night at Dave's Poker Pit, we had our regular tourney with a good crowd of 39 players. With the steady flow of late buy-ins, and AddOns later on, I didn't get to play much poker before the first break. My stack went down, and back up. I got to the first break with 7100 chips, down 900 from where we started.

After the break, I wasn't seeing any good cards. My table was rather active, so I just stayed patient. Finally, Terry K raised in early position. He had been doing that a lot. I look at JJ on the Button, and shipped it All-In for 5600. He thought for about .03 seconds, and called with KK. The board ran out 8-high, and I finished in 29th place.

Overall, this was a typical tournament for me these days. I am currently on a 0-13 run in my Saturday night home game. My last cash was back on December 12 (2nd place $200 23 players).

Here are my results since then:
12.19 - 20/32
12.26 - 11/31
01.02 - 21/30
01.09 - 25/33
01.16 - 5/26 (Bubble)
01.23 - 6/24
01.30 - 45/58
02.06 - 17/31
02.13 - 23/29
02.20 - 38/45
02.27 - 4 Table Shootout. Two players advance from each table. I finished 4th or 5th at my table of 8 players.
03.06 - 26/37
03.13 - 29/39

I understand that tournament success is measured in the long term, that variance streaks are to be expected, and all that 'shit. But these numbers are disgusting. I've been getting knocked out early in most of these tourneys. The only Final Tables that I made were the two smallest fields.

The problem is that I have no clue what the problem is. Some have suggested that my TD duties are too much of a distraction. I agree to a certain extent that it takes away from my "game". But I've been doing this for three seasons, which is over 100 tournaments. You'd think that I would have adjusted by now. I have shown a profit in tournaments each of the last two season. So, in theory, I should also show a profit this season. I'm down $430 in 27 tournaments, so I can still pull out of this in the last 10 tournaments. Last night, 1st place got $450.