[AshtrayBroom]

I was playing at my local B&M a few nights ago and I raised AQs from the cutoff. I'd missed completely by the river and the other guy was not going away anytime soon. He checked and I didn't think I could get him off his hand so I pseudo-checked, but my action may well have been construed as just putting my hands on the table. Simultaneously I'd turned around and noticed some drunk people rambling on behind the table. As I turned back, villain had exposed his cards showing bottom pair (with a pair on the board for two pair). I smiled and said, "Um, is his hand dead? I haven't acted yet". The dealer ruled his hand live, so I decided to value bet bluff and try to talk him out of a call. He only had $15 extra behind my bet, and he was agonising for a while before he asked, "Will you show if I fold?". I put on a pained expression, furrowed my brow and said "alright". He mucks and I table Ace high, and the table went nuts at me. Nobody else noticed my dodgy check, and the dealer commended my acting job.

I felt so dirty afterwards, and the poker gods punished me about 2 orbits later when my QQ I re-raised from the BB (too many people called the initial raise) got shoved into by the guy who smooth-called the initial raise from the SB. He had AA and I stacked off. I may have folded had I not committed over 1/3 of my chips with the re-raise (crap structure in Australian casinos at lower limits), and was convinced he'd be shoving a hand like AK in that spot, given that he was a bit stoned showing me some very bad play, like shoving into a total rock with an obviously beat flush and losing hundreds.

Justice, eh?