How to misplay jack-ten 101

An interesting little hand that occurred in a SNG that I've just played... they've been quite frustrating of recent in that I've played well enough but have hit ridiculous bad luck in and around the bubble of recent (four outers, three outers, someone who was clearly stealing deciding to call my huge reraise with A-8 and hitting the river, losing key coinflips, that kind of thing). Anyway, I can't think how this guy could have played the J-T any worse:

PokerStars Game #2192233121: Tournament #10532043, Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2005/07/26 - 14:39:31 (ET)
Table '10532043 1' Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Player A (1285 in chips)
Seat 2: Player B (3460 in chips)
Seat 3: Player C (1025 in chips)
Seat 4: Player D (1085 in chips)
Seat 5: Player E (2080 in chips)
Seat 6: Me (sb) (1640 in chips)
Seat 8: Player F (bb) (620 in chips)
Seat 9: Idiot (2750 in chips)
Me (sb): posts small blind 15
Player F (bb): posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Me (sb) [Qc As]
Idiot: calls 30
Player A: folds
Player B: folds
Player C: folds
Player D: folds
Player E: calls 30
Me (sb): calls 15 - was tempted to raise and probably should have, but I'd be out of position for the rest of the hand, particularly to Idiot who's big stacked and limped UTG, so I opted for a discreet call.
Player F (bb): checks
*** FLOP *** [Td Ah Tc]
Me (sb): bets 90 - I bet 3/4 of the pot, with the intention of folding to any raise that isn't the minimum, and slowing down if called
Player F (bb): folds
Idiot: calls 90 - When you see his hand, you'll question why the hell he didn't raise
Player E: folds
*** TURN *** [Td Ah Tc] [Ac]
Me (sb): bets 150 - Down to two handed, and jackpot. If he's got the ace it's a chop-up, otherwise I've got him trapped
Idiot: calls 150
*** RIVER *** [Td Ah Tc Ac] [Ad] - hello, runner-runner quads. Now he must surely have a ten or some other irrelevant pocket pair. I'll just make a smallish bet to try to get a call
Me (sb): bets 210
Idiot: calls 210
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Me (sb): shows [Qc As] (four of a kind, Aces)
Idiot: mucks hand
Me (sb) collected 1020 from pot
Player D said, "vnh"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1020 | Rake 0
Board [Td Ah Tc Ac Ad]
Seat 1: Player A folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Player B folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Player C folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Player D folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Player E (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 6: Me (sb) (small blind) showed [Qc As] and won (1020) with four of a kind, Aces
Seat 8: Player F (bb) (big blind) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: Idiot mucked [Jd Th] - yes, I can't beat the board but I'll call a river bet anyway. Cheers.

Needless to say it all went horribly wrong just before the final table, when as the billy low stack of around 3K, hit jacks to go to 4K busting someone, then hovering around with all-in steals (blinds 100/200 a25), before hitting genuine cards with 10-10, doing the same thing before someone wakes up behind me with A-K and hits. I've just got him covered but I only have one and a bit big blinds so I get A-J next hand and some nob makes a straight with 8-5 or some junk. Bollocks.

I got that job that I interviewed for, no surprises there. Heard nothing from the other place so I can assume I didn't get that one as it starts on Monday. Have been playing with bittorrent a bit, nice toy really. DLed the Super Metroid soundtrack and recalled what a bloody great game that is (my comments on it are available near the start of the Feb 05 archive). That's about it for the time being.

Crap week really...

Here's what's been happening at my end:

- Got exam results, passed the year. Torts cut it fine (42), but the others were safe 2:2's. This year doesn't count towards the degree so that's not too bad, might make some placement hunting a bit awkward but that's not a huge problem.

- Adecco called me in to properly register with them on Wednesday, claiming they had work available, but it was exactly the same as what I'd already rejected, so that's a wasted journey for me.

- Was in Sheffield yesterday. Had an interview for some work around freshers' week... well I say an interview, it was more like four people being told what the job was about and given a ten minute error checking test that wouldn't tax a four year old. So seeing how they're employing primarily on that, it should be OK. Also applied for some work at the library from the start of August, which will be ideal if I can get it. While in Sheffield I picked up the house keys... house is still there which is good, had a couple of pints with those who were about.

- Won the quiz at the Farmers on Monday at an absolute canter, a clear four points ahead of everyone else.

- On Big Brother, they come up with one idea this week that is relatively interesting, only to fuck up the final delivery by letting them know half the story, and leaving them to stew for half an hour before unloading the other half of the "bombshell". Much better would have been to say "the nth person to be evicted is... none of the above, the rest were up, the public have picked x and y, choose between them" before putting them on a phone-a-friend style clock. No leaving them to have a screaming fit for ages.

Summer's boring...

Some updates:

- Should have my exam results any time now. According to last year, Monday is par, so we'll have to see. Given the shit post service round here, I'll wait a week or so.

- I've switched to playing $1 5 table SNG's on Stars about 75% of the time now, with the rest still being micro PLO8. Mainly because I've hit a streak of form and am ripping them up. Over the past week or so I've had three 2nd's, two 3rd's and a fifth (disappointed that I couldn't convert more of those to wins considering I claim to be able to play very short handed... blew one with a 30:1 chip lead heads up and lost a race in another with 98% of the chips in preflop), and have run the bankroll up to around $70 from a nadir of $10 last month. I hope this is Harrington kicking in and not just a really lucky streak. It probably is, the standard is very poor, but at the same time it's still possible to bully with a big stack.

- The Lions tests have been disappointing. Mainly because Woodward doesn't have a clue with respect to the backs. Wilkinson isn't a 12. Thomas isn't a 13. Williams is too small to play 11. It should have been Peel, S Jones, Lewsey, Henson, O'Driscoll, Robinson, Thomas in the first test.

- Radiogrounds is really quite good.

- Job hunting is wank. Hopefully I'll nail this library job in Sheffield that'll be good for August onwards. Manpower called me in last Friday to register (and the Spoons on Petersgate stocked Tiger which was nice), but haven't found me anything yet. I've got an interview in Sheffield for some work during fresher's week this Thursday. Adecco offered me night shelf stacking at B&Q so I told them where to go (if I drove, I'd have considered it).

- That's about it. I've been mostly playing Madden, Prime 2 is lacking appeal, had about half an hour on it in Torvus the other day, but died one room from a save point, losing everything from first arriving there to the save after the super missiles.