You Can`t Beat Luck

I have just finished a marathon HORSE freeroll over at Vegas poker hosted by Rounders Radio. From a field of 178 I took 2nd place and I`m quite frankly depressed about it. I played badly at the start and I was down to 119 chips by the fifth level, the stud hi/lo. I then came back, with a little luck and clawed my way to the final table where I played great poker just to survive. I watched the bigger stacks fall by the wayside until I was HU. I even managed to get close to even at one point but I just couldn`t hit the right cards at the right time. It`s frustrating because my opponent was not a good player or maybe he was a genius so far above me in poker skills that I just couldn`t conceive what he was doing. However when a guy calls off 8-10% of his stack with 7-2 suited I tend to have doubts regarding his ability. He actually won with it too which is why this post is titled as it is. That wasn`t the hand he beat me with but all night I watched him hit, time after time after time. I probably should have had a little more patience and waited for the games I`m stronger in to come round but the antes and bring ins were getting heavy and I needed to pick up a pot every now and again just to stay in the running. I will say that he played quite well HU but with the cards he was getting it really wasn`t that difficult.