Quote Originally Posted by MumblesBadly View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Just Stanley View Post

Good post. I am telling you this, I knew I needed to go out the fucking door when I got up $4,000. I basically had back to back hits on roulette, one was for $800 and the next two pulls were for $3,000 when I put on red and it hit. The adrenaline just got to me, that $4,000 was turning into $40,000 in my head. That was about 11pm. Midnight it was all gone.
True story re leaving when your up really fast...

Back in my AC days, I sat down to an action 2/5 NL game at Caesars. Bought in for the max ($500) and within 45 mins was up a grand. A super action player sits to my right, and immediately starts pounding pre-flop raises. I'm salivating thinking I have the best position on him. Turns out (1) I was in the *worst* position, as he was a maniac, which a lot of the rest of the table caught onto, and (2) I had a slew of good starting pocket pairs and suited connectors but couldn't connect on the flop, or hit afterwards. And because of my position, I'd get bounced by massive reraises by snakes in the grass who limped in before he routinely agroed preflop. Over the next three hours, my $1500 stake dwindled to zero, I bought in for another $500 and that also melted away in a few hours to preflop calling hands that missed or were too weak to play to the reraises.
I lost $2,200 on a set of kings back in the day at a similar table. Guy flopped a straight and I knew it when I bet the river, I just could not get away from a set of Kings on the flop.

Just like I should have walked away from $4,000 last night, same thing that night. I knew I was beat but bet anyway. Fuck.