Remember kids, 3 of a kind isn't a royal flush!

I feel like an idiot for not being to get away from this, at least without majorly hurting my stack.

Full Tilt Poker Game #17261567109: $250 United States Freeroll (129242975), Table 454 - 100/200 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:37:21 ET - 2010/01/01
Seat 1: Dragonrider8 (8,375)
Seat 2: eveansdead (2,023), is sitting out
Seat 3: AASureLifeIFold (14,775)
Seat 4: cddurkin (140), is sitting out
Seat 5: yomammy (270), is sitting out
Seat 6: thomas_21978 (290), is sitting out
Seat 7: ferretjam (2,710)
Seat 8: Dustycole1 (9,820)
Seat 9: cal2233 (215), is sitting out
ferretjam posts the small blind of 100
Dustycole1 posts the big blind of 200
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to AASureLifeIFold [Kd Ks]
cal2233 folds
Dragonrider8 calls 200
eveansdead folds
AASureLifeIFold raises to 400
cddurkin folds
yomammy folds
thomas_21978 folds
ferretjam folds
Dustycole1 calls 200
Dragonrider8 calls 200
*** FLOP *** [4h 8s Kh]
Dustycole1 checks
Dragonrider8 checks
AASureLifeIFold checks
*** TURN *** [4h 8s Kh] Q♥
Dustycole1 bets 200
Dragonrider8 folds
AASureLifeIFold raises to 600
Dustycole1 has 15 seconds left to act
Dustycole1 raises to 1,000
AASureLifeIFold raises to 1,400
Dustycole1 raises to 9,420, and is all in
AASureLifeIFold calls 8,020
Dustycole1 shows [Th 2h]
AASureLifeIFold shows [Kd Ks]
*** RIVER *** [4h 8s Kh Qh] J♠
Dustycole1 shows a flush, King high
AASureLifeIFold shows three of a kind, Kings
Dustycole1 wins the pot (20,140) with a flush, King high
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 20,140 | Rake 0
Board: [4h 8s Kh Qh Js]
Seat 1: Dragonrider8 folded on the Turn
Seat 2: eveansdead didn't bet (folded)
Seat 3: AASureLifeIFold showed [Kd Ks] and lost with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 4: cddurkin didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: yomammy didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: thomas_21978 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: ferretjam (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 8: Dustycole1 (big blind) showed [Th 2h] and won (20,140) with a flush, King high
Seat 9: cal2233 didn't bet (folded)

Dumb dumb dumb all the way through this hand from me. I was getting annoyed with Dusty as he played every hand with me the same, bet, raise, and raise all in. It threw me off my game, I should have noticed that even though i made trips on the flop i should have bet there because of the hearts, also when I bet on the turn i was too damn excited about trapping dusty to notice that he deviated from his usual format, instead of reraising me all in, he just raised again to 1000, right away i should have realized that he wanted me to call, and he had a big hand...

So yes very donk play from me... my raise preflop was nothing big because I wanted it to seem obvious to Dusty that I was on a similar hand that he's beaten me on before by going all in...

Forrrrr show

lol its like i know the correct move but i dont make it... its cuz im stupid lol.

your not stupid...just not the brightest on this hand haha...how come preflop u dont raise it to like...800..maybe even 1K

Well four (five? cant remember) people are sitting out, because its the USA freeroll so we're basically 5 handed, also I knew Dusty was playing loose but if he had something like 52o i didnt want to scare him out of the pot with one caller and one 3xBB raiser in front of him, it was definitely not the correct way to play the hand though.

I usually like to raise the same amount preflop regardless of what cards I raise with, usually 3.5 - 4BBs. If you min. raise, and he calls you with crap. You won't get anything more out of him anyway if he misses the flop. So with a larger preflop raise, at least you would win more if he was stupid enough to call preflop. And it also helps to reduce the chance of getting burned by low card straights (if he folds say two low cards that he would have called a small raise with).

If you raised to 700 or so, BB may fold and UTG may call ya anyway, since he's getting better than 2:1.

(Although, some punks will call with ANY suited cards short of 5 BBs raises at least, so the BB may have called anyway)

And definitely don't check the set on the flop with 2 others in the pot.

Actually i think i mentioned that he was playing really loose, i would raise him with top pair but he would just go all in and take it down, in 4 out of 5 of the hands we played he did this, which is what i was planning on him to do this time but he actually picked up a hand and the deviation from his normal play was too subtle for me to see until after the pot was over. but my mistakes were numerous in this hand, and the preflop raise was just one of them .