Kings can kiss my ass!

I played some poker last night and while I am happy with some of the results, I can't seem to win with Kings in late stages of tournaments. I don't slow play them. I just get idiot big stacks to commit and hit.

KK vs 99 - no good
KK vs AJo - all-in pre and obviously Ace on the flop
KK vs J9s - flop QT8

On the other hand, some people will just gift you their chips any chance they get. So I have that going for me.

If you're not playing the $12 Double Shootouts to the Sunday Million on PokerStars you are missing out on some easy money. I won another one of these and bubbled another when my set of 7s got checked down and the board made a four card straight. Nice.

I also played the Heads-Up tourney at 23:45pm on Full Tilt Poker and made it through 3 opponents and all the way to 20th of 256 for a little cash. Obviously my opponent could not lay down KK on a AAx flop and hits his 2 outer on the river. Is that how it's supposed to work?

In the 28K, as I mentioned above I ran my Kings into a big stack's JackAce. Made the money, but nothing significant.

I have to admit a couple of things:

1) Reading Gus Hansen's book made me play like a complete idiot. I now understand how some people play against me and at this point it takes a lot of the "skill" out of the game. In some cases it worked, in others not. I need to see how I want to proceed with this LAG strategy.

2) When I did get a stack I was just brutally killing the table. If it folded to me I was raising with ATC and if I had a decent hand and the pot was opened I either jammed or called. I played the 300 FTP point 6-max that awards top 6 with a $75 token and when down to 12 I had more than double my next opponent's stack. Then I doubled a smaller stack with Kings against Nines all in pre. Then I doubled another guy when I flopped top two and he hit bottom set of Twos. Then someone made a move with QTs against my AK and made two pair on the turn and river to send me out in 8th.

I love poker. I had a bunch of screenshots, but this post ended up being too depressing anyway.