Decided to meet a friend and play at Venetian Tuesday. I just hate playing there as the smoke generally gets to me before the cards and today was no exception.

Had such an interesting hand that best I can say is I didn’t go broke. Pre flop raiser from early position. Small blind calls. I look down in my bb and see ace queen of clubs. I call. Flop is A99. Checked all around, which made me suspicious. Turn is a Queen. Original raiser fires and I smooth. River is a nine giving me a boat. I bet and he moves all in. I look at him and say I know you did t raise pre flop with the 9 so I’m putting you on queens or aces and I folded my boat. The table was incredulous. He grins and shows aces. The hand chopped my stack fairly well but with a sore throat and all the smoke I was glad to get out of there. Such is poker.