Grinding, and Pain

Played on Friday the 24th up at Parker's. They have won the battle to consolidate the poker market up north in Seattle. It sucks. I hate the place but there is no place to go up north. They only have 5 tables right now, they are talking about adding a 6th, but there was a two hour wait to get into the 12/24 game. So I put my name on the list and came back later to check on progress. I finally got in to the game at 10:00pm, and the game was good, but my cards were not. I just kept mucking hand after hand. I would have been better off just skipping the night, as I never had a good run of cards and the table was to full up weak players that you could not bluff. I tried a few times and finally just gave up trying. The two big pairs I received that night were QQ twice, lost both when A came on flop. Just tried to grind it out. I finally, just did not get cards and mucked all but two hands over the last 1 1/2 hours and went home at 3:00am. Of course I lost the two I played. A nut flush draw with top pair that did not get there and an open ended straight draw that also did not get there. That cost me the money I lost that night pretty much. Finished down -$247. Hope to run a little better on Tuesday this week. Can't run much worse. At least I had the discipline to not play weak hands when I was not getting any premium hands. Kept the loss to a manageable amount for 5 hours of play. See what happenes on Tues. SJ