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[Tommyhawkers]

After getting off work around 10PM, I've got a lot of energy and feeling good so I decide to do the usual and go play some cards, and this time I've got my game face on I tell myself. I'm feeling good, just perfect on everything. I climb in the truck, 30 minute drive and get pulled over for a 73 in a 65, talk smack with the officer for a bit and he lets me go without even a written warning. Get down to the Casino, and buy in with $220 on a $2-5 NL Game. First hand I'm sitting with AJ, raised 30 to me, I call on the button. Flop Jxx, I check he bets 15, turn is Ace, he goes all in I call. He's got KK, I double up to about 450. One rotation around the table, and I'm sitting with about 450 still and I get dealt AK on the button (yes, on the button again while playing 6-handed). Early Position raised to 15, call call and i just call on the button, small blind calls and big blind makes it 50. Early position calls, and I call. Flop comes A99 and no flush draws, Big blind bets $75, early position folds, and I bump it up to $255 to put him all in. He thinks about it a few minutes, and then calls. I see $800 out there and he turns over his QQ. I see $800 out there and I'm 25:1 favorite. A Q on turn hits and bam I'm down to $100 or so. He pulls in a $780 pot just gleaming and telling me how he had two voices in his head, one said "you're way behind," and the other said "just play the hand you were dealt." I said wow nice call, not knowing what he throught he meant by that, and great move (sarcasm without sarcastic tone). Everybody at the table just glares at him. I go and get another $220 in chips, get dealt KK make it $30 to go, 3 callers, flop Q93 and I take down the pot with $20 bet on the flop. Up to about 300. A few hands later I get dealt TT, a guy makes it 35 to play I put him on QQ or KK and just call. Flop comes 9JQ giving me the open ended, he's first to act and bets $35, I call. Turn's an 8 giving me the Q high straight, and I think hell the money in the middle is plenty for me and go all in when he bets $35 again, another 250 or so, and so the Chinese guy stares me down for about a minute and says "I call!" He throws his kings down happy with it all until he sees i have TT for the straight. Another T on river gives him King high straight. Humbug, I say to myself, what a night. Two 2-outters have cost me about $1500 and I'm just an entrepreneurial college freshman sitting $440 deep. I go and get another $220, my 99 meets TT for a decent pot with nothing but rags. And then I'm finished off when my JJ meets KK for a decent pot that took me all in after the flop when once again no cards higher than a 9. I knew the guy had TT or JJ the hand with 9s vs Ts and still called, and I for some reason knew the guy had KK calling both before they flopped 'em. I sat down for those 2 hours and felt that I made every move as perfect as anyone could (except for my last $80 or so with JJ vs KK) and once again everyone knows me as the king of getting sucked out on. At all my homegames in high school everyone knew they'd suck out on me if they were behind everytime, a homegame now, and after a few weeks the guys I play regularly with on $2-5 NL know me as the same. I'm a nice kid, who doesn't get upset on bad beats, like tonight just smiling and saying good hand while the guy next to me says "dang-it I folded 5-9 I had the 9!" As someone corrects him that Qs full had him pretty beat. It seems as though the more bad beats I take the better of a poker player I am, the more patient I am in life, in cards, and with the girlfriend and family. In the last few weeks I've been trying to make more money and play my A-Game at the casino. The last few weeks I've been getting some of the coldest cards I could imagine, until tonight. Last night, for instance, I won 4 hands over the course of 4 hours, 2 were bluffed and 2 hands I was legit and still came up $300, and it's been similar almost every night I've played. This seems to be the only way I win, and I am not a very tight player. I'm agressive and always have my money in when I'm ahead, when I seldomly do hit a pot. I always tell myself that life, especially in poker, is random and over the course of time everything has to even out. If anyone out there has any good ideas on how to change my luck, let me know. I'm thinking about those lucky sandals on eBay someone posted, but I think they're too big. PS: Sorry for the ranting and raving, just letting off some steam in the best way I know how.