Cruel and unusual treatment

Over the years, I've picked up a lot of great phrases from people I admire. One such is "cruel and unusual treatment", which I picked up from my father. Yesterday, the poker gods subjected me to cruel and unusual treatment on the last hand of my session. I was playing Limit Stud Hi/Lo, and was short-stacked. I was dealt a pair of tens in the hole, and my door car was an eight. I shoved the rest of my chips into the middle (which was legal, since I had so few of them) and got a bunch of callers. I made a set of tens on 5th street, and made a full house, tens full of eights, on 6th street. I thought I had a mortal lock on the high hand, and continued reading an article on the New York Times website, confident that I'd get the good news that I'd won the high pot when the hand was over. Instead, the PokerStars window which popped up told me I was out of the tournament in 47th place. I didn't get to see which hand beat mine, but the odds are it was a better full house. Whatcha gonna do?

style flavor    buy_in  entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   Razz       22000   3000       8      90   24    33        0
MTT   NLHE       44000   6000       9     290   72    98        0
MTT   Stud HiLo  22000   3000       8     148   32    47        0

delta: $-100,000
2025 balance: $-482,000
2025 blue distance: $482,000
balance: $15,815,303
MTT ITM pct: 40.52 (1410 of 3480)