Round Four : The Round That Sucked

I hate round four...  I was doing so well.

I started with big slick in great position early,  called a three bet, and saw a flop.  Alas,  I missed...

Then it happened.  I had been playing so well,  exactly how I wanted - no calls or bets for suited connectors, because I got good odds, or because I wanted to flop a set with a pocket pair for a big hand.

So I'm in the big blind and get raised,  with two callers...  I love these odds! And I have pocket threes,  I can go for the set!  Flop came jack,  jack,  four...  and everyone checked.

The turn was a jack... I now have a full house.  It's not a good full house,  but it's a full house so I bet it...  two fold,  one call.  Then...  the river. 

A four. 

Now the board has a full house that's better than mine. 

Interestingly enough, the board having a great hand happened to me last year and the year before. Last year I folded to someone else betting a full house on the board,  the year before I bet a straight on the board and the other guy folded.

So I'm first to act and can't win...  I'm just playing the board.  So I bet...  basically a bluff,  something else I'm not supposed to be doing.  So he raises me big and I snap call...  call his pocket kings.  His jacks full of kings beat the jacks full of fours on the board that I was playing.  Goodbye 10,000 in chips,  hello on tilt...

I had KJ off I raised preflop for the antes. 

Nines that I raised from middle position and had to fold after an ace on the flop.

I had aces on the button,  but everyone except big blind folded and he was gone after the flop.

KQ suited in an early position got me a caller and a queen on the flop for a little pot.

KJ off in a middle position got three bet and I had to fold it.

KJ off under the gun got a caller and a king and a jack on the flop. The turn paired the board and the river put the third spade on the board,  so I didn't value bet the river and he checked his KQ... so I won a medium small pot instead of medium large.
That's it...  I have had one bluff,  one emotional call,  one call based on odds,  and one play of a tiny pair in eight hours... it all happened on one hand and one giant compounded mistake cost me a quarter of my stack...  what an unforgiving tournament. 

40,050 at the end of round four and I'm exhausted...