New Poster / Noob, Couple questions

I posted this on Two plus Two also. I chose both Forums do to the quality of posters and info obtained from web sites. This is a great forum BTW.

I have browsed a few forums on poker for a little while and a big time poster on a couple Denver Broncos (NFL) forums.

I got into poker because I felt I have "It". The ability to make good reads on each person and their playing habits etc.

I have done a lot of reasearch figuring out numbers and trying to improve my game. I put in $50 2 weeks ago on pokerstars and brought that up to around $800 bucks. I got 2nd and 5th on the 11-1 180 person and and got 1st and placed a bunch on 4-4.40 180 person.

My question is this. The last 6 tourny's for me while being up as one of the chip leaders lost in miserable ways. I will name a few.

1. Pocket 9's snuck in at 3x blind flop is A 9 2, I check player bets a bunch knocking another player out and ultimatly just me an him. I put him on a AK or AQ. Turn is a 2, we end up going all in and he has pocket AA's.

2. Pocket K's two times. Both times I thought I played well. Both lost to and A on the turn or river when put someone all in (Both people had A 5 or A 8 somthing like that.)

3. low stack moves all in and called his desperation and called with 10 A suited... and wins with 6 7 o to get a flush!

4. Finally when I bring people all in or calling huge bets while I have the nut it has seemed lately that every single person will get there inside straight or getting a flush from two same suites coming on turn and river. In addition someone have low pairs and getting trips on river...

My game seemed fine from me being a tight aggresive player and switching to hyper aggresive "bully" and my numbers seem fine on poker co pilot (I use a mac). Should I be more patient in tourneys or keep doing what I am doing? Seems like so many people that should not be in a hand win it on me and are calling with nothing and getting there cards with under 8 outs and I am betting...

I am not a person that gets mad and jsut say nh to everyone that wins but it is frustrating when i know I should have atleast placed in most of those tourneys....

Next time I will do the fancy hand calculator on here

* Anyways my name is Nick, Nice to meet everyone. Next time I will not be all over the place, just ranting I guess...

welcome to poker and the variance that comes along with it. If you are getting your chips in the middle as a favorite then you have done all you can.

Oh, and welcome to FTR.

With the limited data you provided it looks like your playing fine, just suffering from variance.
Only thing I can add is I notice in large tourneys, especially early on, people play any A. So if they are calling you down and an A hits the board and they start betting big or go all-in toss your pocket KK. Better to stay in the tourney than blow all your chips.

play cash games

All those hands seem like you had no choice but to put your money in. You can't expect to fold your kings when you're the 90% favorite when the money goes in, so why worry about it. I'm sure you know this anyways. Micro2Macro has a good point, if you're getting frustrated by finishing OTM in big tourneys even when you played perfectly, try some 9 man SnG's or cash games. Multi tabling these should lower your variance significantly compared to 180 man SnG's.