Beat by the river?

I have been playing in several tourneys lately and midway through each one I end up in a hand that gobbles over a third or better of my stack. Short of folding the hand pre flop ( which would be ridiculous) I have basically had the best hand post and pre flop and have ended up with that proverbial got rivered card turned on me. Now every poker player gets a bad beat like this, but I have just gone through a streak of about a dozen that left me crippled enough make unwanted aggressive moves late in the games to avoid the short stack syndrome of going all in with less than premium hands. Of course that ultimately put me at a severe disadvantage at the wrong times toward the end of the tourneys. I anticipate that this trend will take a turn for the better since it goes against the odds for people catching those two outers against me so frequently (but I could be wrong)...

Until that time, manage that bankroll.

Stacking the Chips in a 2/5 game

So you buy in on a $2/$5 for the max amount. You always should buy the maximum amount that you can if possible. That way when you happen to flop that monster hand you can accumulate as many chips that your opponent has in front of them and are willing to give up from disbelief that you flopped that 4 of a kind to his boated full house.

The progression is always best to show in pictures. $800 buy in $100 stacks. After a few small wins and time the &800 stack turns into a $1500 pyramid. That pyramid turns into a double pyramid with the goal of 3K finale. Unfortunately, a couple hands turned sour and started running cold after post flop play and the opponent hit that infamous two outer to take chips back. All told though, at the end of the day the dresser had some nice Bens resting for the next hand of poker....