REAL hand examples, insight into my play

[MovingFlea]

HAND 1
I am in the middle of a PO freeroll. I am in middle position and pick up QTo. 3 people limp ahead of me and I raise it up to 7X the BB. I get two callers from the limpers. I have position.

The flop comes Jack high with low cards, they both check it too me. I check back. The turn is just another low card, but now there's 3 to the flush. They both check once more. I finally bet, about half the pot. It's a pretty big pot now and I get one caller. I'm disappointed because so far this hand has cost me a lot of chips and all I have is high card queen.

The river is a Q. My lone opponent goes all in, he almost has me covered. Normally I would take some time with this hand before calling, but I was feeling feisty that day and almost snap called without really thinking about it. I vaguely remember thinking, well I think he missed his flush draw or something.

The funny thing is he did miss his Queen high flush draw. His hole cards read QJ. His hand is two pair.

I can fold top pair, the pot just got too big, too quickly. It was bigger than either of our stacks. My thinking got clouded and the pressure got to me. Folding would have left me short stacked in a couple of minutes. I hate being short stacked, It seems I always bust out once I get less than 10BB. My subconscious figured, if there's any chance this call is good, then I am well on my way to placing in the money, if not then I will probably bust out anyways. I was obviously wrong.

Go ahead, give me some of your wisdom PO.

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HAND 2


aceydj Posts Ante 100.00
rustillthere Posts Ante 100.00
XXGraspingStrawsXX Posts Ante 100.00
RLC12345 Posts Ante 100.00
Seich01 Posts Ante 100.00
rustillthere Posts SB 2000.00
XXGraspingStrawsXX Posts BB 4000.00
RLC12345 Folds
Seich01 Folds
aceydj Folds
rustillthere All In 17626.00
XXGraspingStrawsXX Calls 15626.00
rustillthere Shows 7h,3s
XXGraspingStrawsXX Shows 6c,Ah
rustillthere Won 39752.00 from Pot 1 with Ten High Straight

The Pot was 24k by the time it got to me. The call would have cost me 15k. I had 5 BB left and I knew he was a very loose player so I called him knowing I would have 2BB if I lost. Good or bad?