Just Another Night Of Donkey Suckouts

[Mercury69 3]

Last night I played the US Daily (via ticket). Got off to a slow start, but managed to hang in there until almost the second break, despite being fairly card dead the first hour. My remedy to card deadness is to play a little more aggressively with certain hands, and it somewhat worked. Then this:I get AK, blinds are 75/150, coupla limpers, I raise to 450. Fold, fold, guy to my right raises to 700ish. I re-raise that and he goes all-in, I call having him fairly covered by 1K. No, he didn't have a big pp. No, he didn't have high cards. He had J4s. Flop comes a J and a J on the turn seals it.I battle back and get QQ in SB a few hands later. I raise it up and I get an all-in caller, again I have him covered, so I call. Buddy turns up A-rag. OK, if he spikes an A, that's OK, so it goes. Flop comes all hearts, incl a Q, so I have a set, but his A is a heart. At least the gods didn't wait until the river to give the guy his backdoor flush, he hit it on the turn.My last hand was a chancey all-in with 88 from MP, hoping to drag a pot against someone's high cards. If I'd been up against a big pair, it wouldn't have been as much of a slap in the face, but of course I was up against 99 and lost.Other hands are blurry, but I can tell you that I don't think I won a single race when I was behind and, when I got all my chips in knowing I was ahead, I might have won 30% of those (3 or 4 out of 10) and those hands only served to barely keep me in the tourney, rather than put me up near the chip lead.Personally, I think I played one of my best tourneys, while I was still in it. I simply didn't get the one or two lucky drops or dodges that so many idiots seem to snag. A couple of different results and I'm easily in the money. As it was, I finished 80th or so out of 311. At least I didn't bubble out after struggling with so many bad beats. That is some measure of poker god kindness, anyway.