Playing a hand badly and knowing it.

[Penguinfan]

Are you ever in the process of playing a hand, know as soon as you take action it was the wrong action, continue on with the hand and smash your face into the windshield reguardless?

I swear, like twice it has happened that I really belive my brain just shut down and I went into auto-pilot, or auto-crash as the case may be.

Still trying to win my $200+16 seat and in a 28 player game, 3 players get seats and one gets $24. Down to 6 players and I get KQs one off the button, make a 3x raise to 1800 (I have about 9500 which sits me in 4th place), the BB just calls. Now I know he did not call without an Ace in his hand, it has to be a weak Ace or I would have got played back at, that has been his pattern.

Flop is AQ7, he bets the minimum and I raise to 1200, he calls, I know he has a weak Ace and I had a chance to push him off of it and didn't. 3 on the turn and he bets 1200, I call, who the hell calls here?!??! Raise or fold, but don't call for God's sake.

River brings another Ace, now he bets 2000 and like a jackass I call with my useless top two pair, he shows A6.

Problem is I knew I was beat the whole way and still played the hand like it was my first time at the table.

Ever happen to anyone else?

[PShabi]

I personally haven't misplayed a hand for about 30 seconds.

[Dodoubled]

Yeah, me either. (Sigh) ... it isn't easy being perfect. But hey, somebody's gotta do it.

By the way, I had free Yankees tickets for the game this afternoon but managed to fuck that up by drinking too much last night. So instead of getting to the Stadium for the first time in 15 years for an afternoon matinee, I was stuck on my girlfriend's couch all day, sound asleep and trying to fight the nausea. Now, I'm stuck on my girlfriend's computer at 11:30 p.m., still trying to fight the nausea.

Shit!

[Talking Poker]

When this happens to me (the known bad play, not drinking myself out of a Yankees game), it's usually late in a tourney when I start getting ancy and play a trouble hand preflop. The second my chips go in (either calling a raise from the BB or opening with it in MP), I know it's going to be trouble. And sure enough, I hit just enough of it to force me to stick around.

The thing is, when I do go broke in these situations, I'm kinda glad... because I know I played badly and I deserved to lose, so hopefully the next time that situation comes up, I'll be more likely to avoid it.