Those 5-table MTT tournaments?  Played another one last night.  Bubbled again.  I have an amazing propensity to bubble — A few years ago, when I was playing poker at a much higher level and much more often, I bubbled out of so many tournaments, I started keeping track of them as they would be almost comical, if they weren’t so painful. Last night, I was solid in chips, 3rd or 4th out of 7, but when I pushed w/ AK, I turned to Christina and told her, “I’ll probably be the bubble boy because someone will wake up with Aces.”  Big blind almost made me 100% right, calling with KK.

Perhaps the two most painful bubbles were in a WSOP Satellite and in a tournament PokerRoom was having for the WSOP players they had sent.  For the latter, PokerRoom had setup a tournament for the 60+ people that had won a seat to the WSOP.  The top 8 (top 10?) people would all win a trip on a cruise and finish the tournament there.  The winner would become a “Pro” for a year, sponsored by PokerRoom.  I was one of the shorter stacks when it got to the bubble so I don’t know if I would have won the whole tourney but I certainly would have liked to win the trip.  I pushed w/ K J from SB and got called from BB with A-3.  No improvement for me and I bubbled as I have so many times previously and since.