I see a glimmer of light, but it ain't very bright

One week into June and I can't be sure, but things are improving. I've played two tournaments (one live and one online) and made the final table in both. The only bad thing is that both times I finished just out of the money. I feel like I'm playing some quality poker and sooner or later this stretch will take its course, so I just need to continue what I'm doing and hope to hit that one extra hand that carries me over.

Speaking of the live game, I just finished and it played out very weird to me. I never seemed to get a good feel of my table and just didn't feel into it. It was also very frustrating in that I seemed to have horrible timing all night. Just about every time I was in late position with a playable hand, there was a huge raise in front of me that I couldn't justify calling. I had a couple of different suited connectors or small pairs, great hands to sneak in with, but I was staring at 5X BB raises or better.

I finished 5th by pretty much playing my big hands aggressive and got lucky one time when I moved in short stack and hit bottom pair to take the pot and triple up. I got paid back dearly when my pocket 66 got busted by trip 3's on the river and was taken out on a gutshot straight against my 22.

It was nice in that I really never got a rush of any sort and did nothing spectacular. Probably my best plays were top pair laydowns against big raises (both ended up being bottom two pair). I feel good in that I feel like I'm not making many mistakes, but frustrated to go that deep into a tournament only to come up dry. I know that's the nature of tournaments, but I also know the quality of people I'm playing against and should be doing somewhat better. Then again, it takes a combination of good play and cooperative cards to do well. Both of my last two tournaments I was the favorite going in and was taken out by a 3 outer and a gutshot, so I'm putting myself in the right positions.

On a bright note, I've focused my online play to SnG's for a while and have salvaged my account. Two 2nds and a first this week and I've worked it back from $5 to almost $100. I don't exactly play for big stakes online, but I would like to continue to build up my BR and see what I can do with it.

As far as this blog thing goes, well, I try and update it when I can, but I don't know if a soul reads it right now, so there's no pressure either. If I should get some fans (ha ha), I'll try and be more dedicated, but for now, once a week is as probably as good as it gets.