Best laid plans gone awry

Remember my using Greg Raymer's quote about "being the luckiest player" when talking about last week's game? This time I was on the other end of it, so instead of being a contender, I enjoyed a relatively early night with the Mrs.

Kinda tired even at this time of posting to dwell on too many hands, but I'll just focus on the hand that crippled me here. At my table was Richard (tight player), Scott (solid player - doesn't play as maniacal as people think), Joshua (loose player), and GalPal of Fred (loose player). Blinds at 100/200, and I'm sitting with 3400 chips...Richard and Scott fold, Joshua (dealer) calls, Patricia calls.

I look at A-K, and this is an easy raise - to 700. Joshua then surprises me with a reraise all-in, except I know I have the best hand here, because Joshua has been calling all-ins without getting proper odds with hands like J-5, 8-7, etc. Pretty much an insta-call here for me, given the facts above. When I flip over A-K, Joshua has a look of disgust on his face, and flips over A-Q - YES!!! Something I'd been hoping to set up since he doubled me up couple of orbits prior to this had been set up!

8-4 and a F'N QUEEN on the flop puts me behind, ten on turn gives me more outs, but a 6 on river, and I'm down to 100 chips. Next hand I'm the SB, quadruple up to 400 chips when Patricia bluffs Joshua out of side pot, and my paired 7 holds up...but can't survive a 3-way pot with J-7 soooooted out of the BB - 13th or 14th for me again, yippee! Too late to get into the cash, so I enjoyed a little time with the Mrs., instead.

Tied for 4th in standings to date for this season, which we'll take. As long as I keep going every week, I should be in the finals - 1 more deep run will cinch it, whenever the hell the final is.