Typical

After 17k hands thus far in November I'm only a hair over 1000bbs below AIEV, so a pretty average run for me thus far. The Supernova quarterly million dollar freeroll was today, and it looked like I was going to double up reasonably early on but forgot that one out is not zero outs and therefore I am drawing dead just like in cash games:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 0 Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (9 handed)
BB (t17544)
UTG (t8900)
UTG+1 (t10450)
Hero (MP1) (t10848)
MP2 (t5976)
MP3 (t7950)
CO (t7729)
Button (t25112)
SB (t8406)

Hero's M: 36.16

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with K♠, K♦
2 folds, Hero bets t450, 5 folds, BB calls t250

Flop: (t1000) 5♠, A♣, K♣ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t600, BB raises to t1620, Hero raises to t3600, BB raises to t17094 (All-In), Hero calls t6798 (All-In)

Turn: (t21796) 9♥ (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t21796) 5♥ (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t21796

Results:
BB had 5♣, 5♦ (four of a kind, fives).
Hero had K♠, K♦ (full house, Kings over fives).
Outcome: t21796 returned to BB

How do I ever manage to win money when any non-zero equity cannot lose once the money goes in against me you ask? Fortunately there are people willing to get it in drawing dead, as below:

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $6.00 BB (6 handed)
Hero (BB) ($300)
UTG ($111)
MP ($658.15)
CO ($300)
Button ($300)
SB ($279)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 6♣, 6♠
4 folds, SB bets $18, Hero calls $12

Flop: ($36) 2♥, 10♠, 6♦ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $18, SB raises to $54, Hero calls $36

Turn: ($144) A♥ (2 players)
SB bets $207 (All-In), Hero calls $207

River: ($558) 4♦ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $558 | Rake: $3

Results:
SB had 8♦, Q♥ (high card, Ace).
Hero had 6♣, 6♠ (three of a kind, sixes).
Outcome: Hero won $555

There's also people willing to spazz massively overbet/fold to help my red line. The hand below sure looks like a chip dump, but as the money is going to me I can be certain it wasn't. Misclick maybe? The villain was a huge fish.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $1.00 BB (9 handed)
Button ($100)
SB ($100)
BB ($120.50)
UTG ($36.90)
UTG+1 ($103)
MP1 ($72)
MP2 ($45.85)
MP3 ($48.85)
Hero (CO) ($100)

Preflop: Hero is CO with J♥, J♣
1 fold, UTG+1 calls $1, 3 folds, Hero bets $4, 3 folds, UTG+1 calls $3

Flop: ($9.50) 3♠, 2♣, 3♦ (2 players)
UTG+1 bets $61, Hero raises to $96 (All-In), 1 fold

Total pot: $131.50 | Rake: $3

Results:
Hero didn't show J♥, J♣.
Outcome: Hero won $128.50

To be fair, the second hand was on FTP so I wasn't actually drawing dead against ATC, but you get my point.

Outside of poker, the Flames make me sad while the Patriots make me happy. Despite Blazing Souls being flawed in many ways I'm having a lot of fun with it. I just can't seem to put my finger on why, especially considering it has no coherent plot or character development to speak of. Looking forward to the collector's addition of the Ys remake being in my mailbox this week. The PSP just keeps on adding RPGs to its library.

Finally, the third video of my Cardrunners series goes live on Monday. Hope those of you who are CR members enjoy it.