I had a really weird weekend. Friday I worked from home, so around three, I fire up four tables and, well, my luckbox was set to sucko. In less than 200 hands, took down $1750. My personal favorite was when a lag limped AA otb, SB completed and I checked KTo in the BB. Flop is QJ9 with a spade draw. SB bets $8, I raise to $26, button raises to $80, I repop to $240 and he shoves his aces and is drawing dead on the turn.

Unfortunately, just as I built up four figure-stacks on three of my four tables, all of the games died and the rest of the 2/4 tables were full. The site I play on has a terrible waitlist bug that ends up crashing my system and I didn't feel like dealing with it. So I quit with a big win and watch Lost then go out to dinner.

So I'm feeling good Saturday when I head to the boats with a couple people, including the legendary dukemuscle.

And I managed to lose $1150 in four and a half hours, basically in two hands.

First hour was pretty uneventful. Got up about $200 quickly at the must move table, then got moved to a main game and won a big pot quickly, and did it in a way that made me look like a donkey. I opened 87s in the hijack for $30, button is the only caller, eff stacks are $600. Flop comes JsJc9c. I bet $50, he calls after thinking a minute. Turn is the As. I bet $120. He tanks for a good two minutes, asks himself "Is this jack good?" and then calls. River is the Qs. I'm a little thrown by the jack comment and with him having just over a pot behind I'm not really happy about either his calling range or his betting range, but I decide to check (lemme know what you think about that in comments if you want). He checks behind and shows AK (no spade or club) and my flush is good.

So I really like my table image at this point and basically decide to play straightforward.

An orbit or two later, I raise JJ im MP2 to $35 behind an utg+1 limper. The limper was steaming after losing on the river with his flopped broadway. Luckily, he didn't raise any street after flopping the nuts and was smart enough to check back the river when the river paired the ace and the SB practically fist-pumped as she checked after betting flop and turn with the JJ she completed in the SB.

yeah, nothing but good players in live 2/5 games.

So anyway, I raise, SB calls, EP guy calls too and we see a three-handed flop of 4d3d2h. Checks to me, I bet a friendly $60, SB folds, EP guy calls. I have 900 and he has me covered. Turn is an offsuit ten, checks to me, I bet $135 and he checkraises to $400 straight.

Online, I fold this with almost no thought.

Live, the truth is I simply wasn't concentrated on the moment. I can't tell you exactly what I was thinking, but it wasn't "ok, limp/call preflop, check/call flop, check/raise turn, what does my hand look like, what does his hand look like and how are we doing against it?"

Mostly it was "Man, this guy wont shut up about that fucking straight, even though he played like shit. Well fuck you sir, I'm all in."

I was obviously drawing dead to his A5.

It's just a terrible shove. At the time, if I thought about a hand, I was thinking Axd, tilting and overplaying or 88 or something. But no one live plays like that. They play with their hands face up and I refused to believe it. Possibly the single worst play I've made all year.

So then I go card dead and manage to drop another buyin with queens vs. kings and it's not very interesting.

This sort of loss used to stick with me and really bother me and this one definitely lingered a bit, but after sleeping in, Bronwyn and I went to brunch at Wishbone and I was complaining a bit about how stupid I am and she said "Yeah, it's $1100, but I know that's not much money for you any more. That's like a slow week for you and you'll get it back and play better next time."

Which was awesome not just because she was trying to cheer me up, but because it's true and it's also a really hard to grasp poker concept (long run) that she completely embraces. That's an awesome girl.

So we went home and I put in a 950-hand session and ended up a $400 winner and went for a very happy 3-mile run, up about $1000 on the weekend and soon to be up one amazing wife.

I run sooooo good.