"Bored Now."

I'm now officially 0 for 3 in the BBT2 tournaments, and when I say "0 for 3", I don't mean that I didn't win any of them, although that's true. I don't mean that I didn't make the money in any of them, although that's also true. What I mean is that I didn't even make the points. In any of them.

There was a time when I was passably good at NLHE tournaments, but that time is no longer. Long stretches of only playing cash (and mostly LHE cash, at that) have severely eroded my NLHE tournament skills. My reads are still reasonably accurate, but my timing and my aggression are "off", to put it charitably. Worst of all, I have a tendency to get bored as the tournament progresses into the middle stages.

[This in no way accounts for my Gigli performance during Monday's MATH, where I badly misplayed AK twice in the first three hands to bust out before some people even realized the tournament had started. It marked my earliest tourney exit since a $50 noon weekday tournament at the Bike in 2004, when I tried to bull-rush someone who had flopped middle pair against my unimproved AQ on the fifth hand. People were still in line registering for the tournament when the dealer yelled "Seat open!"]

Boredom playing NLHE has been a recurring theme of late. My last trip to the Crackhouse, I got bored... and donked off my stack. In Key West, I played reasonably well for a while... until I got bored and donked off my stack. I get antsy to the point that I make a play that I patently know is not a good play even before I make it. Disaster predictably results and I am reduced to stacking Dawn Summers with my mind since I have no chips of my own with which to stack her.

I guess if I want to go to Melbourne, I better figure out soon how to alleviate or avoid the boredom (else, God forbid, I will be reduced to (a) trying to write my way in, or (b) relying on CK). In the meantime, keep an eye out for me at the Mookie tonight. I'll be the guy with no attention span sporting a tag on my chest that reads "HELLO MY NAME IS: Dead Money".