Don`t You Just Hate It When . . .

Don`t you just hate it when you do everything right and still lose? Played the First Depositors FR at Carbon last night and had ground my way into the money despite having very few playable hands. We`re down to 15 players and I double my 3,500 stack with AQh. The next hand I`m the BB and I had AKos and there`s just me and the button who limped in the hand and I`ve checked because I know this guy (40k+ chips) will call me with almost anything and I want to see the flop. Well it comes king high and I check knowing he`ll try and push me off. Sure enough he pushes all-in nd I can`t call quick enough. He has 34os giving him a pair but the damned river makes him a straight Now it`s not a bad beat he had 9 outs but still it was frustrating, a double-up there would have given me an average stack and who knows how far I might have gone.

Still that`s poker as they say . . .