Big hands means big losses - Lost the roll - down -$328

3-4 hour night with good solid players - particularly two quiet young guys to my immediate right - one on a big stack of $4-500 and the 2nd on a smaller stack of $100 or so, but solid reader of other folks and solid bets.

The table was full 10 to start but often had empty seats throughout the night - getting down to 5-6 players before cards came at times.    There were at least 3 other good players on the table with smaller stacks, including an older russian woman being watched by a husband from the rail.

Even with that, the bets were pretty aggressive in my mind - 5 times the pot with 2nd pair, things like that.  I went up and down and played fairly conservatively - mucking many marginal hands and dropping when I missed on the flop.

The Russian, with a similar style to me, for example, 3 times had my low pocket pair covered by a higher pocket pair.  Her big bets won big money from other people who were chasing.

I went up and down, a low of about $220, and high of $360 or so.

I was a few spot after the big blind - limped in with 4 others for a pot of $10

Flop comes AKQ with two spades . . .

The first to act raises to $10 - a medium good players with a smaller stack.

And he gets re-raised by the button to $100 - the other two fold out.

And I've got AA - clubs and diamonds

I figured the $10 raise had hit little, and the $100 had hit big - I hoped for AK/KQ/AX

I knew that the only thing beating me was J/10 - but that I had an immense number of outs for the nuts - A/K/Q were the first thoughts - on later reflection, I realized that I could runner runner for a pair at the end as well, increasing my odds to around 40% for the nuts.

The $100 bet was weak for me, honestly.  But I didn't want the $10 to get good odds to call, so I squeezed him by going all in.

I said All in - the $10 said 'All out'- the $100 called me and started to sweat

And the damn runner runner came spade spade, not pairing the board . . .

I flipped over my Aces to gasps and shock on the table - which I'll take, as at least no one got a read on me (the 2nd time I slow played aces- the first time was a win)

But, the straight held up - no flushes and my full boat didn't hit - down $300