Burning Money

Last night I played in a $50 buy-in charity event in the back round of a Mardi Gras association building. Ya it was a little weird. There were re-buys for a little over an hour which was a nice change, from the usual 3 hours, but manly the same drunks there. I had a nice stack in the making after the re-buys were over. I had a little over twice the 5,000 we started with. The one big hand that I won before that point I had 10h Qh and the flop hit Jh 2d 4h. I had flopped four to the flush and I bet the minimum to build the pot so I could draw to it later. The Turn is a 9s which adds a open ended straight to my draws. I bet again 500 and get two calls. The river is a heart which makes my flush and i bet 500 again because my flush card was lower than the boards and I am re-raised another 500 and everyone in the hand calls. The show one and two pair hand and I raked in about 4,000. After the re-buys were over about four hands in I lost about 5,000 in one hand were I hit another flush on the turn but I folded. This was the right move because I had the losing hand (he had hit the bigger flush) but I still had invested a lot into the hand. A few hands later we combined tables and I was put out, my pair of J's by a pair o Q's. The guy that put me out took most of my chips that night. He was not a skilled player but on the flop he always re-raised my "information" bet that I made with middle pair. He did this to me several times. If I would have been playing "smart" I could have easily trapped this guy and conversely not bet into him with middle pair. But like I said I wasn't thinking right. I really can't blame anybody for losing this game except but myself. I just didn't get a lot of opportunity's to play do to the bad blind structure that these people love to use.