Check this out..

[SirFWALGMan]

A little background. You can read the whole story at my blog. I was playing an MTT freerolll and a guy I know (Geek) was playing 25/NL, so I decide to play a little with him and this is what happens:

***** Hand History for Game 1897084495 *****
$25 NL Hold'em - Friday, April 15, 01:29:24 EDT 2005
Table Table 37600 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 9
Seat 3: MikeD006 ( $47.7 )
Seat 6: Poker Medicine ( $31.25 )
Seat 7: Geek ( $36.9 )
Seat 4: FWALGMan ( $55.05 )
bosco posts small blind [$0.1].
tjesser posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to FWALGMan [ Kc Ad ]
Pablo_Shiraz calls [$0.25].
MikeD006 folds.
FWALGMan raises [$1].
JJTaylor3 folds.
Poker Medicine folds.
Geek raises [$3].
ReboAndZooti folds.
katoandbosco folds.
tjesser folds.
Pablo_Shiraz calls [$2.75].
FWALGMan calls [$2].

So far so good. He raised a bit. I guess I am so used to 100/NL that this did not seem like a big raise to me. Ha! Hey, when your down in the 25/NL pit playing with people it gets really hard to take some things seriously.

** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, Qc, Jd ]
Pablo_Shiraz checks.
FWALGMan checks.
Geek bets [$9].
Pablo_Shiraz folds.
FWALGMan calls [$9].

Now here is where I paused for a second. I had Geek on one AIM and Poker Medicine on the other.

[01:30] FWA LGman: watch me suckout on geek
[01:30] PokerMedicine: lol
[01:31] PokerMedicine: oh god

Little did I know how true these words would ring..

** Dealing Turn ** [ 5c ]
FWALGMan checks.
Geek is all-In.
FWALGMan: i gotta call ya
FWALGMan calls [$24.9].

So my hand has improved from a straight draw to a straight and flush draw. I know. I have no odds. I suck. I just did not feel like laying down this hand to a measly $24.90 bet. It is so hard to adjust to playing lower limits.

** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]
FWALGMan shows [ Kc, Ad ] a flush, king high.
Geek shows [ Jh, Js ] three of a kind, jacks.
FWALGMan wins $74.15 from the main pot with a flush, king high.

Just for some perspective: .

LMAO!

Anyway it just goes to show how dangerous you can be when you do not care about the chips!

[SirFWALGMan]

Awaiting my flaming, lol.

[Talking Poker]

You know how badly you played it.... so there's nothing to say. It's a REALLY bad habit to not care about your $$ when you are playing at lower limits, but you know this too

[BrianSwa]

hey question for you, pretend your other guy for minute he bet $24 when the flush draw made it. This seems kinda dumb to me, I would think you would want to check-call in this situation. What would you do?

[GeoffM]

Brian, the Geek bet $24 before the flush hit. He had every right to get his money in with trips against a draw. Why give up a free draw? Do this 10 times, you'll make a large profit.

[BrianSwa]

alright I missread the HH then, thought he bet the $24 on the turn when the flush hit. I do totally agree that putting all your money in with trips is the obvious best play.

[Talking Poker]

Yup... this was a pretty bad play, IMO. I guess he (correctly) felt Sir was still on the draw and wanted to make him pay to hit it. Even if someone already has the flush, he has outs to a full house.... but yes, I would have slowed down when that third club hit the board.