Rant post

Well it has been awhile since I openly criticized someone I was playing with live... but it happened again. Even though it was probably justified (who doesn't think they are in the right when they go off on someone. LOL) I really shouldn't have done it.
Another sad aspect of me going off on him was this was at the club I deal at. Bad move on my part.
Unfortunately this was a kid who I used to have more respect for his game. I always thought he was a little aggressive and lucky but still respected his game.
Leading up to my little blow up I had been losing..... mainly due to playing bad and calling ai when I knew I was behind, praying to get lucky (which I did but they had already gotten luckier. LOL).
Easy for me to laugh about things now but at the time it put me on serious tilt. Funny thing was I was playing better and a bit less passively after going on tilt. Made a few good reads and went with them and they were right.

The situation happened when a tight/aggressive player raised to $20 utg. I flat called with 99 feeling I was probably behind but looking for a good flop. Another smooth caller and then this kid min raises to $40!.
There is no point in min raising any situation where you don't feel you already have the best hand and you hope the original raiser comes back over the top. I have ranted for years that I hate the min raise in NL in almost every situation. You are either begging to get beat or just bleeding money to the eventual winner.
Anyways, it gets back the the original raiser and of course he reraises $100. The kid had a disgusted look on his face. I couldn't call this reraise knowing I was way behind for sure now. So I start in on the kid with "great min raise" " I see you are happy about it too, real good play." The other smooth caller calls (known to tend to be a calling station once he decides he wants to play) and the kid smooth calls. Flop comes J108, two clubs. The original raiser goes ai with about $185. They both just call. The kid only has maybe $34 behind. Gotta love the call but not willing to commit that last 10% of his hand beginning stack. 7d right on the turn and a blank 5s on the river. KK takes it does, mainly due to the min raise. Kid never showed his hand. Didn't even wait to see the utg hand before he mucked.
I was steaming for another 2 hours after that. The tight utg player was ai and after the hand had one and a half racks of $5 chips plus 10 $25 chips. I would have won about 80% of that. I know I should want him to make that play. Hell I even tried earlier limping with KK in ep hoping for a raise from one of the many raisers at the table, no luck of course. I just should have let it go. But I let my tilt get the better of me.

Hopefully I will do better in the future of not letting it get to me. Just have to not tilt myself.