Riley's Brick and Mortar is...

...Starting to piss me right off.

Seriously.

I'm not whinging here, but - i just can't seem to do anything.

The last few weeks i've been playing some solid aggressive (not too) poker. And i've only made the final table out of 36 once!!

Last week i got knocked out with the following hands:

I raised all in for 4000 with QQ

Guy calls with K3os. Hits a king. Game over.

The week before, i raised all in for 6000 with AA,

A guy calls with A10s. Makes a flush.

Last night, tried a few aggressive plays, only for some amateur (Who didn't even know what checking meant, had to be reminded what options he had at every stage and who also might i add was chip leader) to call me down from a flop of:

K K 7

Where i'd fired 250 at it.

Turn

8

Where i'd fired 400 at it.

River

5

Where id fired 850 at it.

With A4os.

WTF.

I'm at my tether, i do pretty well online. I do pretty well in the home games with my poker literate friends, yet when it comes to Rileys Tournaments - i can't do anything.

Yesterdays tournament ended up with me getting shortstacked with 2900. I raised all in with 98os.

The big blind called me with 87os.

Flop comes:

6 7 2

Turn

A

River

Q

Game over...once again.

My friends was even worse.

He had raised pre flop, cranking it up to 1000.

One person called.

Flop comes:

9 2 7 (2,7 of diamonds)

My friend pushes all in.

Other guy calls.

My friend reveals AK of diamonds, the guy reveals 62os? WTF?

Turn is the 9 of diamonds.

River is another 9...

I like to think i'm a solid poker player, i win my fair share of games, ive won several large online tourneys. Yet, these elude me.

I hate to think that it's predominantly luck, but after the endless bad beats, i cant look past that factor.

Any advice or tips on what i can/could do better in the future??

Because i sure am stumped.

Cheers,

BF

I play a consistant game of poker in MTTs. I have a consistant strategy, which changes as the tournament progresses and situations change.

I can go for an extended period of time where my strategy works 90% of the time. Then, like a light switching off, my strategy stops working, and I enter a losing period.

When I first started playing I would doubt myself. Now, when the bad times come, I just analyze the situations and see if I can learn something to improve my strategy.

Stuff happens. You have to look at how you play at a site over a longer period, and determine whether you are in a dark period, or there is something faulty in your play.