I really think I must be. All poker players go through down periods but I have not won a STT on Pokerstars for months. It has not been my play either, I think I have played pretty damn well in most of the tournaments. The best result I have had recently was a third (woot!).
Last night I sat down at a $5 NL Holdem STT. After a few hands I got AJs in the SB and the button, BB and myself saw the flop. The flop was three spades and I had the Ace and Jack of spades. The button bet, I raised and the BB went all in. The Button then went all in and so did I. I have no idea what the BB had but the button had a straight flush! Now I know the old saying about you need to know when to fold but I had the Nut Flush and the button had been going for it with any flush hand (and had been winning too - there was a string of five flush winning hands).
I was left with around 300 in chips with eight people left. This would be a perfect and reasonable time to go on tilt but I didn't. I hung in (I was 10xBB at that moment), waited my time and made it to four people left and had recovered my stack to my starting position. This was then the jinx hit and I got absolutely nothing and ended up basically being blinded out.
As I thought I was going out shortly, I started a Limit Omaha H/L STT as well. Again I played well, waited for good hands and was up to 3000 in chips with two people out. It was then that I got into a hand with the BB. I put them on the low hand, whilst I had the high two pair (QJ). Unfortunately the river gave them the low and the high with a straight. That crippled my stack (blinds were something like 300-600 by then and I went out soon afterwards.
I wasn't so pleased with my OHL performance but it just was typical of my luck on Pokerstars at the moment. I was going to play on Victor Chandler but unfortunately as I have signed up for the King of Poker Freeroll on Sunday, they won't accept my deposit bonus (and I am not going to throw away a 100% $100 bonus.
Back to ring gaming I think.