Here’s a snippet from the last two tourneys across two different sites:

First three hands of the tourney are AA, AK suited, AA which for those of you who play online know is just a harbinger of doom for the rest of the tournament. So cruising right along past the money bubble and into the final twenty. Pick up KK with an UTG raiser 3x the BB, reraised by the player to my right who moves it all in with a short stack (half of my stack). I figure I’m up against AK + 77 or something in that range and after a quick review I pop it all in to isolate the smaller pair (and I don’t really mind the AK coming along if they absolutely have to). Original raiser thinks for the maximum time and finally…calls, having me covered. Hands are flipped over to show my Kings versus QQ and 88. Woot. Flop comes Q-8-2. Unwoot. Dual flopped sets. Humble narrator bounced.

Next tourney, satellite play. Fold fold fold grinding into the final table with maniacs galore, a welcome situation since I can play super tight and double up fairly easy if I catch a hand with very small blinds at the moment coupled with deep donk stacks. Yummy. But no hands and no profitable situations until the blinds go up and it’s push mode play from here on out, also not bad in this case since it’s a strong point of my game excepting my horrifying but un-tilting luck. I pick up 76 suited diamonds and it’s folded around to me, so I put it all in to have the huge stack in the BB call as planned. He flips 88 so I’m not so good until a flop of T-9-5 with the Ten and Nine of diamonds. Not so bad now with a gutshot straight flush draw and separate straights and flushes to be had. Such as the 8 of clubs on the turn. I make a straight, lucky bastard improves to trips with one card…to…Ten of clubs. Hmmm.

Variance. ALLLLLLLLLLL variance. Yep :)