PED 01/30

Today's Painful Elimination of the Day comes courtesy of the 9PM short-handed $77 tourney at PokerStars. There was a raise and a call and I called with 22 on the button. The dream flop came A82 with two diamonds. The original raiser checked so I guess he doesn't have an ace - too bad. The other player made a bet and I merely called, still hoping the first guy might have an ace. There were two diamonds and I had a diamond, so I figured he wasn't drawing to a flush, but even still I have the redraw to a full house, so I'm willing to get it all in on the turn even if a diamond falls. The turn was a diamond and my opponent pushed all-in. He had a pair of nines with a diamond draw. I called with trips although my flush draw was no good. So, I guess he had ten outs or so with the diamonds and the nines. I'm not unhappy with how I played it since I got it all in as a big favorite. It was a diamond on the river that did me in. It happens, and it's fine when it does since the alternative would be to bet so much on the flop that I scare him off his longshot draw. I want to take that match-up to the river every time. It's just too bad I can't win the showdown every time.