FML.

There are moments when you're playing poker where a complete fish comes to the table (no, I'm not referring to Pete Kearns) and you can't be anymore excited. Then again, there are moments when you're playing poker where a complete fish comes to the table (still not referring to Pete Kearns) and you just want to rip your hair out. As you all know, wednesday nights are the simulated cash game nights. Not many players take this too seriously, including myself, and will practically play ATC style. That aspect is fine and I understand the loose attitude when you're not playing with real money. My only complaint is that when you don't hit a flop with your cards, regardless of what they are, and want to make a play at the pot...make it a good play.

I started this hand with at $350 in chips and was playing some hands blind at this point just messing around and whatnot. Some new players just came to the table including one of the new guys Rob, who is very loose-aggressive in the simulated cash game. Needless to say, I expected to win a couple big pots because they're my favorite type of player to play against. Anyway, I'm one seat to the right of the cutoff. There are a few limpers in the pot including me who limped blind since I won the pot before. It gets around to Rob in the big blind and he makes it $12 to go. A couple players drop and I call blind again. The flop comes A 5 Q rainbow. Rob bets out about $25 or $30 I'm not quite sure. 2 players fold and Jim Belisle calls as do I, again blind. After I call I decide to look down at my cards to see 2 4 o/s. Seeing that Rob was being so aggressive I knew I could get a huge payout if I hit my gut-shot but I wasn't really counting on it and depending on the action on the turn I was pretty much ready to give up the hand. The turn card is a 3! Yahtzee! In my head it's more like "no fucking way..." and Rob instantly goes all-in! I pretty much got a hard-on under the table and waited for the action to get around to me. Jim calls all-in also for less and I, of course, call. Rob shows KJ for a whiff and proclaims, I was just making a move at the pot. Jim shows A5 for 2-pair and I show my 24 for the nut straight. I'm like "Sweet, I just won a huge pot." Until the dreaded river shows a 10 to give Rob the wheel. Ew. FML.

That same night in the "T-shirt" game I was playing with $40 and be patient, hoping for an opportunity to double-up to play a little more versatile. A hand came where I was in cutoff seat with A8 o/s. Adam UTG min-raises and 6 players call. The flop comes 7A8 (sweet.) and I flop top two. Adam bets another $2 and the player two seats over whom I've never played with (and seemed like a solid straight forward player) raises it to $7. Players fold around to me and I re-raise it to $15 (in retrospect about $20-$22 may have been a better raise). Dottie to my left calls and Adam (with only $1.50 left) tanks for like 3-minutes. I mean, seriously? If you're tanking over $1.50 you shouldn't be playing. Anyway, he ends up folding and the original raiser goes all-in for $21 more. I have about $17 and call. Dottie also calls (?). First player shows 78 for a lower two-pair and I show my A8. The turn card is a 9 and the river is a 10. I know instantly what Dottie has before she flips her cards over with 10 9 7 A 8 on board. She flips over J8 for the runner-runner straight. I had a re-buy but I went home. FML.