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This was shortly after I had found 2+2's forums and books. Still a relative newb to poker, but learning quickly. Table was your typical casino $2-4 table, usually 5-6 seeing the flop and mostly passive. My friend who introduced me to poker and 2+2 was sitting to my immediate left. Recalled as best I could from memory.

I'm dealt A[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] in mid position. I raise and there's 4 callers. Villain in the hand is last to act. Fairly loose and calls down with any piece of the board.

Flop is 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 5[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
I bet out, 1 calls, villain raises, I 3-bet, caller folds, villain calls.

Turn is A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
I bet out, villain calls. At this point, I am so concentrated on this river not being a heart. I'm about 95% sure villain has the hearts for the flush.

River is a [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
I mutter my disgust and check/call. Villain flips over two random hearts for the flush. I turbo-muck disappointed in my fortune.

My friend and another player look at me and say "So you didn't have an Ace?" I look at them perplexed and say "Of course I did, but he had a flush." My friend laughs and points to the river card. I had only taken note of the the fact that the card was a heart, not that it happened to be the 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Doh!

Too late since I threw my hand away.