My Worst 45 Minutes of Poker

I made a very brief stop in the 1/2 NL game at Turning Stone on Monday night. Much briefer than I would have hoped, because I played like garbage.  To be expected I suppose, but a series of bad decisions that shouldn't have been made regardless of the amount of "rust" on my game are what had (and still have) me upset.

Tina and I both bought in for $200, and while she ended up breaking even after a long session, my chips were gone practically before my seat was warm.  I folded a bunch of times after calling an initial small raise ahead of me (stupid; love your cards or hate them, don't be lukewarm), and I lost a big chunk trying to push a guy out of a pot holding 4/4 when the flop came 5/6/8 and he re-raised my initial raise of 40.  I folded that, which was probably good, but my issue is I never should have been in the hand to begin with.

The final hand of the night saw me shove my last 60 holding A/Q after a 10/rag/10 flop, get called, and see the woman have a ten in her hand.  What irked me a bit was that she said "I'm sure you have me" as she called, and then flip A/10.  In what world does she think she's beat holding trips and an ace kicker? Dumbass statement.

I got out of there after that (gracefully as possible, even saying "nice hand"), walked around for a while, and eventually went back to the room.  I was DONE at that point.  Only now, over 24 hours later, am I even entertaining the idea of playing poker again, in any form, ever.

It's too bad my night went so poorly on the felt, because the game around me was pretty entertaining up to that point.  There were a ton of huge pots, most featuring the two older guys on to the right of the dealer.  One of them lost a pot for over 300, had to re-buy for another 200, and lost all of that a few hands later.  Didn't stop him from re-buying once again.

My only saving grace in my poor play was that Tina and I didn't make it known we were together when we sat down, and therefore she wasn't embarrassed in front of the rest of the table by my actions.  Small victory, but an important one.

Race to 10K: 0.75 cash game hours, 18.25 total cash game hours, 272 total hours

(Note: I'm continuing to keep track of this because it will be interesting to see where it ends up by the time I die.  I don't even have a prediction, and honestly even if I got to 10,000 hours I still don't feel like I'd be anything close to an expert.)