My apparent inability to dump top pair, even on a horrid flop....

[Damani311]

$1/2 Live at Venetian, playing for six hours, but just changed tables so I had only been playing for about 5 hands, and I get a black AK os in MP, I make it $12 to go and a girl in the Hhijack calls, along with the BB.

Flop Ah Qh 7h

Doh! No good, but after BB checks I decide to bet out $15...and the girl RR to $35...BB folds, and I sloppily call.

Turn 10d

I check, girl bets $45....we both had about $200 left, and I have no idea what possessed me to call, other than the fact that I had been missing flops and dumping medium hands all night, and I just didnt want to let it go.

River : Jc

I instachecked as the river was dealt, and she sucked her teeth at the four straight on the board (which I now held) and checked.

What in the world possessed me to call these bets, other than donkness? The only reason I'm posting this is to get berated for insisting on seeing another heart, as if the river was a blank and she bet something like $60 how in the world could I call?