I was dying to play some poker. I played a bit Thursday night before the Red Sox game and ended up doing extremely well. Even though I realized I was running out of time as I had to get over to Fenway I still played well and cashed out in one of the two tournaments, and only because I was rushing was knocked out one position out of the money in the other tournament.

I didn’t get to play at all Friday and had stuff to do this morning. So I sat down to play some poker around 2 o’clock.

I just felt like crap. My head was hurting but I still wanted to play poker.

I started out playing ok. One 3 table SNG of NLHE (No limit Hold em) and a 1 table SNG of 7 stud.

After playing for awhile I realized, oh crap I signed up for a 2 table SNG of NHLE instead of a 3 table! LOL. That sucked because it meant less prize money, and they only payed out 4 places instead of 5 places.

Obviously I wasn’t on tip of my game.

Then the following hand came up:

Keep in mind there are 8 people left at a 9 person table as one person has already been knocked out from our table. I have T 2055 and am in second at my table.

PokerStars Game #2543362397: Tournament #12389264, Hold’em No Limit - Level III (25/50)

Lassiter: posts small blind 25
jude1: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Lassiter
K K

C_Lip_7: folds
16G&H: folds
johnsand1: calls 50
Proudfoot: calls 50
dentinator: folds
MERRIE: folds

Lassiter: raises 200 to 250
jude1: calls 200
johnsand1: folds
Proudfoot: folds

FLOP
5 8 A

I get scared here. That ace was the last thing I wanted to see so I check and so does Jude1.

TURN
Q

Honestly haven’t paid attention enough to know how Jude is playing. Sad I know. I should have been paying attention to know if she might slow play aces. However I decide to bet at it and see what happens.

Lassiter: bets 300
jude1: calls 300

RIVER
J

I’m slowing down a bit here to see what is going on… So I check…

Lassiter: checks
jude1: bets 300

She only bet 300. I’m a bit curious that she didn’t bet more. I still know I’m probably beat. I can be beaten any number of ways. I never should have played this hand this far. What the hell am I doing?

Lassiter: calls 300

*** SHOW DOWN ***
jude1: shows
T A (a pair of Aces)
Lassiter: mucks hand
jude1 collected 1800 from pot

So that stupid hand just cost me 850. I HATE that kind of stupid play.

I’m a freaking idiot.

Lets see if I can learn from my mistakes.

- Fittsy

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