First online game in a while

Just wanted to post this hand... shows how bad people are at low levels:

PokerStars Game #29513319898: Tournament #172794606, $1.00+$0.10 Hold'em No Limit - Level IX (75/150) - 2009/06/18 14:46:32 ET
Table '172794606 4' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: SP12345 (2200 in chips)
Seat 2: fuzzy canuck (3710 in chips)
Seat 3: Roman33177 (3105 in chips)
Seat 4: Beaverstyle (1920 in chips)
Seat 5: Slavam969 (2485 in chips)
Seat 6: LAAAJ (11130 in chips)
Seat 7: tfk66 (5060 in chips)
Seat 8: yokompadre (1855 in chips)
Seat 9: alexxgsx (9715 in chips)
SP12345: posts the ante 20
fuzzy canuck: posts the ante 20
Roman33177: posts the ante 20
Beaverstyle: posts the ante 20
Slavam969: posts the ante 20
LAAAJ: posts the ante 20
tfk66: posts the ante 20
yokompadre: posts the ante 20
alexxgsx: posts the ante 20
LAAAJ: posts small blind 75
tfk66: posts big blind 150
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Beaverstyle [Tc Ac]
yokompadre: folds
alexxgsx: folds
SP12345: folds
fuzzy canuck: calls 150
Roman33177: folds
Beaverstyle: raises 1750 to 1900 and is all-in
Slavam969: folds
LAAAJ: folds
tfk66: folds
fuzzy canuck: calls 1750
*** FLOP *** [7s 5c 8c]
*** TURN *** [7s 5c 8c] [Kd]
*** RIVER *** [7s 5c 8c Kd] [Qs]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
fuzzy canuck: shows [Ks Jc] (a pair of Kings)
Beaverstyle: shows [Tc Ac] (high card Ace)
fuzzy canuck collected 4205 from pot


Not feeling it right now... probably going to play some $4.40's when I have a lot of time set aside. Winning one of those would be a huge confidence boost.

Depression... about poker.

It's been quite a while since I've put in any serious time playing poker, and this depresses me greatly. I think it's been a good thing for me, cutting back on playing poker, but I hardly play at all anymore.

I'm reminded with the countless hours I previously devoted to donkaments and multi-tabling sngs and cash games... I've made some profit in my poker career, but not nearly equivalent to the time invested, imo.

Anyway, I'm playing a tourney (or two) today, live. I played on Thursday and pretty much got my ass handed to me. Granted, the tournament structure was pretty quick, and I never really got into any post flop situations where I could get some chips. I once raised UTG w/ AKo, UTG+1 flat calls, I see a flop of all under cards, 9 high, C/B and take the pot down. Villain claims to have had AQ.

The other hand I played, a loose-ish player raises from EP, I flat w/ 1010, and ofcourse the button, sb and bb all call. The flop comes A Q 4, I fold to a bet from the original raiser, as do all the others, he shows K5ss (???!?!?!). So yeah, besides my passively played tens, I don't think I really made any mistakes. For my bust out hand, I shoved 3,300 at 400/800 w/ 66, BB woke up w/ 1010, gg me.

I'm hoping the poker goes well today... I need something to brighten my spirits. I think I'm going to depend heavily today on positional play and try to develop my reads on players. I've been out of the game for a while, so I really need to step it up a bit.

GL me.