As I prepare for hosting a poker night, I decided to play one sng last night (even though I should have just went to sleep, see yesterday's post). I made one particularly bad play drawing to a flush with only one opponent early in the tournament. I figured if I won, I could stack him, but I should have just let it go as those type of draws have too little chance of paying off, especially early in the tournament. I managed to climb back up and with 6 players left I was was short-stacked with about 10 BB's. Big blind was 150 and UTG raised it to 450. I had KK, so I pushed all in, it was folded around to UTG who called my $600 raise and showed 9dTd. I liked my 78% chance to double up until the flop gave him a four flush and oesd and putting him as the favorite. The turn, Tc, gave him a pair as well, but this put me in the lead again, until the river brought the Qd. Oh well I lost, which sucked, but I got my money in as the overwhelming leader ( was was 3.5:1 to win).

I played a bit this morning. I posted on my first and was dealt 4h7h. The flop came 6d5d4c. For some reason I though I flopped a str8 and bet and raised until the end. The reast of the hand was As Jd. I figured that I could only lose to a flush now, which was possible, but the pot was $48, so I wasn't going to fold for a $2 bet. When the pot got pushed to trip jacks I was thoroughly confused until I reviewed the hand history to reveal that I only had a pair of fours and NOT a str8. That is twice this week that I mis-read the board for a non-existent str8. Must pay more attention.