Flush blindness

Last night, my biggest single hand loss occurred because I failed to notice that the board supported a flush. Inexcusable! Aside from my blindness, I was somewhat fooled by the betting pattern of my opponent. He checked the turn, on which he'd made his flush, then bet big on the river. I had top two pair and thought he was playing games. My stack fell from $26,600 down to $7,800, and once again I was psychologically crippled, even though my stack wasn't. I hit the felt twenty odd hands later. After reupping, I played another 115 hands dead even. I forgot to save the hand stats, so the only one I know is the total number of hands I played: 192.

delta: $-40,000
balance: $4,575,684