worst reads ( ie most humiliating calls )

I was fresh off 3 straight SnG wins in a row & was feeling super confident so I entered a $5 no rebuy NL 1000 person tourny. The 1st 30 or so hands were all-in fests with hands such as A,7 8,8 k,J etc etc. I'm BB & havent even seen a flop yet ( I have 1450 or so chips ) the SB is chip leader & has 10,000+ chips & has been bullying the table almost every hand. By some miracle nobody raises pre flop & I get a free look at the flop ( I'm delt A,6 ) the flop comes A,K,4. Everyone checks around to me ( omg my Ace is good, I'm thinking ) so I bet 1/2 the pot & everyone drops till it gets to the SB ( Mr. Big Stack ) & he raises me 700 ( half my stack ). I seriously would of been $1000.00 real dollars on him having K, junk or less. I was so confident I had him beat I almost said "not this time buddy" Thank god I didnt cause I re-raised him all-in, he calls immediately & flips over A,K. I left the table with my tail between my legs, what a bad read & humiliating experience. Poker has a funny way of humbling you when you start to get cocky.

anyways I'm bored at work & thought I would share my humiliating with you all.

It wasn't really a bad read. Mr. Big Stack just slowplayed A,K which a good poker player NEVER does. It seems Mr. Big Stack knows little about playng poker.

never say never t1riel....if you always play the same tactic...you will always end up being predictable....

I dunno if it was stupid or ingenious, he had a huge chip lead & blinds were very low, if he pushed pre flop he'd get everyone out & not win much relative to his stack. I think he limped in & hoped to catch something on the flop & then push knowing that his table image would induce callers thinking he was bluffing. It worked like a charm. When he flipped over A,K I literally couldnt believe it lol, I've never been so suprised.

This has me thinking literally every big hand I've lost lately has come from me getting a free hand via being in the big blind, catching something nice & getting blasted with it. I was on a streak of 5 in the money SnG's in a row & I got blasted out in 8th place when I was BB & had A,4 ( a hand I rarely play ) everyone limped to me so I checked & the flop came A,A,6. I bet & got called to the river & reraised & ended up all in, losing to A,10.

well when that type of thing happens it's hard to put your opponent on a hand
like that last example, it would be hard to put your opponent on a bigger ace, as he really should have raised PF