cheating myself out of a huge pot

[devin mac]

played a home game tonite, not huge stakes but decent for me. 1/2 blinds and 100 - 300 buyin. bought in for 200 initially and took a tough river beat after being up about 75 that put me at 164 going into the hand.

VERY NEXT HAND, i pick up pocket 10's and pop it to 7 preflop, then flop a set on an A 10 5 rainbow board. sweet!

i'm in the cutoff and villain is on the button. small blind had called and leads out for 15. i smooth call to make a big bet on the turn. button raises to 30 and small blind calls. i push for my remaining 127, and the button calls it, small blind folds.

button flipped over A5 offsuit for two pair. sweet! two outs! turn is a brick, river is a five! unfortunately, i didn't realize at the time my hand was good, and got all kinds of bummed as the $365 pot shipped his way... somehow EVERY SINGLE PERSON at the table (including myself... wow...) missed that tens full of fives beats fives full of aces...

great night.... great night...