The Hand that Haunts My Dreams

To set the stage....I've had a streak of bad luck and bad beats....I'm down to the last $100 in my poker bankroll... In a cash game... I'm holding  Q♢ 10♢...... the board is showing J♢, K♢, J♠. K♠....two players ALL-IN ahead of me ....I'm pot committed but calling puts me ALL-IN.....I know making my straight or flush won't win the hand....one of them has a king , one has a jack or their both holding king, jack  and I only have two outs.  So I FOLD!  And of course the river is....You guessed it.. 9♢ .....  I would have made the straight flush and tripled up!  But Noooo,  now I'm crippled, pissed off and never want to play this { #@%&! ing} game again!    What would you have done ?

If I were playing on Pokerstars, like I always do, I would have called because this is exactly what happens on PS, the worst hand ever wins. Once I had the most incredible hand in OmahaHL without low and 4 players had a street, 3 of them the same street and lucky me the lower one but we were all pushed AI from the 5th player in the hand and all he had was 2 pair, KJ but he pushed and pushed and all of us called with a bad feeling because of full house or flush or something like that but the river was one of the last J and we lost, all of us:-) Yes, this is PS. On other pokerrooms like FT or the rest I would have fold of course.

And btw, I was pushed AI from people waiting for the straight flush 4 times in my career on PS and every time the straight flush come. Well, I see a straight flush once in a week on PS, not that seldom. Nothing special, I would say, even if it is too hard. I have seen to many 1 outer on PS.

If I was pot committed as you say you were, I would have called, although it's a very long shot with only two outs. 

Making a decision with hindsight is an easy thing to do but when you're there in that moment, you have around 20 seconds to make a decision so it's very difficult to say what one would have done without knowing what that river was.

I have stayed with 2 pair against streets and FH myself and a lot of times it has paid out which is very, very crazy but this is Pokerstars. Sorry, there I have made the most crazy experiences and this is not good for my development as pokerplayer. I learnt to be crazy and to made stupid decision at big potts. The higher the pott, the most stupid the decision because it could be you. This is the problem there (at PS). The cards are not that imporant, for me the pott is important. You don't get that higher potts so often and so you have to stay in the higher potts. That is just what I have learnt. Again, not a good development for me.