Last night I made worse than a rookie mistake at our weekly Tuesday night tournament at Rick's. I made an egregious error that I still am having a hard time fathoming, even here the next day. The situation went like this: I was coasting nicely through our tourney, as we were down to our final five players and I was one of the top stacks. In the big blind, I watched as Peter, under the gun, raised the T40 blind to T120. Rick folded, Bennett called, Spencer in the small blind folded. I then peer down at my hole cards and see Q-Q. Thinking for a moment about a reraise, I decide against it, as Peter had almost as much as me while Bennett has about 3/5 of my stack. A reraise may entice an all-in, I thought, and certainly one of these guys has at least an overcard. I decide to just call, see the flop, and then decide from there. Well, the flop comes down 8-9-K rainbow. Bennett checks, I check, Peter raises T150. Aha! That bastard has a king! Bennett then calls. Now the red flags go up. Why on Earth is Bennett calling a raise of about 1/3 of his stack? He must have a king that he's slowplaying. I'm really kicking myself now. Do I push all-in and risk having egg all over my face as one of them shows an A-K or K-Q or something? I decide against it and throw away the queens. The turn and river come down, Peter bets out big, Bennett folds what turns out to be 10-J for an open-ender and Peter shows 2-5 of diamonds for a stone-cold bluff. I'm sick over this. I feel as though I totally misplayed my hand by not reraising. Peter would have run off, and most likely Bennett, too. Perhaps an omen, I am crippled just minutes later when Bennett reels me in after flopping a set and blowing me out on the river when the board pairs up and he has 8's full to my Ace high. I'm all-in the next hand, and of course my preflop winning hand loses. I am very dissapointed with how last night went. An otherwise well-played night of poker gets thrown out the window by one horrible, botched play where I foolishly, inexplicably did not take advantage of a major preflop edge, and then basically ends when I am destroyed by a full house. Oh, man...

Source: Poker World