some days, the only reason I'm ahead is that I bet so big...

[creedofhubris]

My usual 2/5 game. Some new faces. I've been on vacation for a couple weeks, so I don't recognize everybody, and everybody doesn't recognize my tight/aggro ways. I'm having a bad day; another new player has been consistently outplaying me, outflopping my big hands, and bluffing me out of other pots (showing me his bluffs afterwards). Still, I've made a bit of a recovery by busting the player to my right, after I made a button raise with AJ, hit my J, and called his all-in check-raise with unimproved TT. Anyway, I've got him in my head as "desperate calling station". He is now the CO for this hand.

I'm on the button with T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. 4 limpers. I consider raising, then decide to just join the party.

Flop is:

6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].

SB min-bets $5, CO calls, I make it $30, SB folds, CO calls.

Turn is

A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

Great; I've tentatively put my opponent on the naked ace, and now he has a pair. He's never going to fold now, time to pot it.

Opponent checks, I bet $60, opponent calls.

River is 8[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].

Opponent checks. I look hard at the board, at my hole cards, at the board again. I move my $1200 stack into the middle. Opponent pauses briefly, then moves his $460 stack into the middle.

Opponent shows down A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]4[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] for the flopped ace-high flush.

Moral of the story: if you hold the absolute nuts, and you think there is any chance your opponent holds the second nuts, you need to move in. Also, one-outers are the best kind of suckout.