hand reading - not

Played a frustrating session yesterday where more focus on hand reading might have saved some pennies. Dropped almost 2 BI - most of my money seemed to go one 45/3 monkey. Got stacked with 80% equity which was not very fun but I was fairly cool about it. Another 40bb monkey called my KK 4-bet in the BB with 33 and flopped a set. 45/3 monkey called my AQ iso raise with J8 UTG. I flopped TPTK but monkey boy flopped 2 pair and took me for another 40bb.

Played 4 tables for most of this session and once again proved that 3 is my limit. In my defence I bought into a 4th table thinking that I was going to quit a dying table but the seats filled up and so carried on with the 4 tables.

On the social front wife and I went to the village BBQ and had a skin full of wine a generally fun night. At the end of the night we got an invite from the local millionaire to go back to his place for more drinks. We are friendly with him but tend to keep our distance. He's been good to my wife - allowing her to use some of his grazing (at no charge) when our own grazing is a bit tired. This guy has serious dough - made when he sold his coal mining business. He's got all the toys - vintage cars and houses all over the place. He can be fairly obnoxious - with cutting remarks fired at all and sundry and generally enjoys ripping the pee out of his group of 'friends' and family who all seem to accept it and toady up to him. Witness the power of money in action.