tournament poker is all about bad beats ... if 100 people enter ... well over three quarters of the field held the best hand with all the chips in the middle ... and were outdrawn ... basically ... we all sit around hoping our hands hold up ... and eventually ... 99 out of the 100 players get broke ... the majority of these players held the best hand when their last chips went in.

your "analysis" makes it sound like you are astonished that you are outdrawn at one point or another along the way ... it makes no difference WHEN the suckout occurs ... your big pocket pair can just as easily be outdrawn on the first hand of the tournament ... as it can on the last hand.

Point is ... at SOME point in the tournament ... every player get's unlucky ... and finds themselves the victim of a bad beat ... the lucky player who survives the suckout filled waters ... ends up with all the chips.

If you look at it this way ... maybe you won't feel so bad about being outdrawn.

Look at this another way ... pretend you are playing Blackjack instead of Holdem ... you are dealt two face cards every hand ... and the dealer shows a six in the window each time ... your bets increase as the tournament moves into the later rounds ... each time you play a hand ... you are the favorite. It's pretty clear that at SOME point along the way ... the dealer will hit a lucky 21 ... clearly ONE player outlasts the others in this tournament ... he's the "suckout proof" player of the day .. and the winner!

You can't say you were 'unlucky' to be sucked out on in these tournaments ... sounds like you did pretty well, actually! What do you expect, to WIN the whole thing .... to outlast hundreds of other players just like you ??? No way.