Bad night

I had a really bad night at the tables tonight. Strassa was chipleader with 3 tables left in the $1k+rebuys event at the Rio (and I *hate* the Rio), so we headed over there to sweat + grind instead of the Bellagio. What a huge mistake this was.

I don't really feel like going into the details right now because I'm absolutely furious, but basically I ran a $1300 bluff at 2/5 which did not succeed. Maybe if people at 2/5 understood things like table image and relative hand strength it would have worked, but alas...

I was totally card dead all night -- almost none of my hands paired, very few draws ever came up for me, and I missed every single draw that I did pick up (seriously). In my ~8hr session at this one 2/5 table, I had at least two streaks of 90min or longer during which I didn't win a single pot. Nothing was going my way until I coolered another guy to double up, but after that it was back to putting money into pots and never getting any back. Also, the Rio and Harrah's need to die a painful death.

And to top it off, I wasn't playing well. I felt like I was a tremendously better player than everyone at the table, and this led to my becoming complacent with my play; I felt like I could play my C- game and still come out on top, which is probably what makes me the most angry right now.

So, I've decided that I will not be playing 2/5 again on this trip. The play is just too bad, and that in turn causes me to play poorly. I will only be playing 5/10 or 10/20 from here on out, assuming I can actually get someone to fucking trade me cash for online money. If I had a cash bankroll on hand, I'm confident that I could play my A game every day and thusly be tremendously successful. But without the confidence that having a bankroll gives me, I feel like I'm doomed to repeat this cycle of mediocrity for a long time.
Have I mentioned that I hate Harrah's and the Rio?