Threefold failure

Last Friday night, I had a major mental lapse on the last hand of the session. I failed to do all three of the important things a poker player must try to do each and every hand. I failed to look, I failed to think, and I failed to listen. If I'd been able to do just one of those three, I would have folded before I hit the felt. I can extenuate, but not excuse, the failure.

Here are the reasons why I didn't look, think, or listen:

1. I'd just brought my stack back up over its initial amount of $40K after an extended period of being below that, and the feeling of euphoria this engendered impaired my judgment

2. I flopped a straight, and thought I was golden

3. subconsciously I knew that if I went all in and won the hand, my balance would pop back over the play million threshold again

Here's how the hand played out:

Table 'T #828132723' 9-max (Play Money) Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: (50537 in chips)
Seat 5: (41028 in chips)
Seat 6: (7800 in chips)
Seat 8: neostreet (42757 in chips)
neostreet: posts small blind 100
Seat 1: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to neostreet [Jd Td]
Seat 5: calls 200
Seat 6: calls 200
neostreet: calls 100
Seat 1: raises 200 to 400
Seat 5: calls 200
Seat 6: calls 200
neostreet: calls 200
*** FLOP *** [9d 7s 8s]
neostreet: bets 200
Seat 1: raises 1000 to 1200
Seat 5: folds
Seat 6: calls 1200
neostreet: raises 1000 to 2200
Seat 1: raises 1000 to 3200
Seat 6: folds
neostreet: raises 1000 to 4200
Seat 1: raises 1000 to 5200
neostreet: raises 1000 to 6200
Seat 1: calls 1000
*** TURN *** [9d 7s 8s] [9h]
neostreet: bets 15200
Seat 1: raises 15200 to 30400
neostreet: calls 15200
*** RIVER *** [9d 7s 8s 9h] [5s]
neostreet: checks
Seat 1: bets 5800
neostreet: calls 5757 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (43) returned to Seat 1
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Seat 1: shows [7h 7d] (a full house, Sevens full of Nines)
neostreet: shows [Jd Td] (a straight, Seven to Jack)
Seat 1 collected 87514 from pot

It's poker 101 that if you have a straight and the board pairs, you have to think long and hard about the possibility an opponent has a full house. Since I didn't think at all, I thought neither long nor hard :-)

Here are the session stats:

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 70 hands and saw flop:
- 9 out of 10 times while in big blind (90%)
- 8 out of 10 times while in small blind (80%)
- 33 out of 50 times in other positions (66%)
- a total of 50 out of 70 (71%)
Pots won at showdown - 9 of 16 (56%)
Pots won without showdown - 4

delta: $-40,000
balance: $924,723