So I have been excited about today for a week. The first game of Poker Maximus with a 5k pool and another private tourney with a 2k prize pool with a 50% of the field payout were both today at 3pm I went out of the maximus withing ten minutes. Someone was shoving all in every hand. I waited for queens and lost to his 4 5 off. When I left he was up to 10k. The other tourney had a guy who seemed to have it out for me calling me down every hand I played though I never saw what he had. I would win because I was playing big hands and he would muck. When I got pocket queens I raise 3x to 180. He shoves all in for 1050. I call. His 6 2 off wins. I did not play much in the next 20 hands or so a few limps with one decent pot won for a small gain over the course of the hands. But at this point I am just below twenty blinds and and the blind increase is about to drop me to 12 bb's. I limp with eights UTG. A few more limpers and late middle to act shoves all in with about 30 bb's. I saw it as being weak, and though reluctantly, I called. He had sevens and flopped the set. When I left the guy who originally took me way down with 6 2 was just under 9k. I'm out of both games in less than a half hour while the worst two players at the table worth both literally chip leaders of the tourneys. I know poker can be this way sometimes but I really burns me up when It happens like this. It's kind of like winning a bunch of small pots but when you get someone all in for that huge pot that's when they hit the two card suck out. Does anyone follow me here? I just need a break and needed to vent. Thanks for listening...