i consider my self a strong poker player
 

i have went 4 straight tournaments w/o winnang a single hand at my buddies house. It got ridiculous. I went on to win 8 straight trnys but thats beside the point. The main beat i still remember was me from BB. I had AA person in 3rd pos had AJ. we were only 2 to see the flop. Flop came JT2. I bet 2X the pot. he reraised then i rr all in. he shows AJ im thinking to myself hell yea, but whats the turn??? You guessed it J. followed by a 7. Just had to let it out bc it still bugs me. The biggest thing is that they know im by far the best player there. Its like they have a secret $100 bounty on my head by the hands they show down.

dont feel too bad, theres no way he put you on aces...

also i find that the better players at my games get a lot more action from people. everyone is always SO afraid of getting bluffed out, they call the more skilled players down to the riv with very modest hands

"I thought you were bluffing" ;)

sit and goes go the same way for me. I'll not cash for 5-15 tourneys, getting every good hand cracked and then get first twice and continue to cash. But the pain from the losses lasts much longer than the joy of winning for me. I hate that but I keep coming back.

We had some limit ring games at my house over the weekend. I won the first pot of the night playing straight seven. I started with KQJ and slow played. Got a 9 after fourth card and I figure I had a well-hidden inside straight draw. Hit it on card 6 and lucky for me someone else had a lower straight so that put me up the rest of the night. Ended up winning about $30 after being up a bunch and then proceeding to get piss drunk and dropping most of what I had won. Oh well, at least I won and had a good time.

piss drunk, yeah i've always noticed thats a bad thing when you're trying to take other people's money. lost $25 on halloween that i didn't even know i had played until the next day my buddy said i was really smashed and went all in on T-T pre-flop on like the 3rd hand of the game...guy outdrew me with trip jacks, and i proceeded to take shots.

Ak?
 

He must have put you on AK. Stupid call, but like you said "Your the best" player there.

thats aweful again. But Aces won't always hold up. And AJ on Jxx flop is pretty good.

yea
 

thats pretty good but he only has 2 outs. The 2 remaining jacks. Actually he hit a 1 outter. Player to my left folded J4 preflop"so he said"

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Being the best player there you MUST know that you still must count folded cards as outs. If you are ahead with an open-ended straight flush draw with two overcards, but everyone folded all of your outs, going all-in was still the right play, even though you didn't have nearly as many outs as you thought.