What's Worse?

Playing bad or running bad?

Full Tilt Poker Game #11908576518: PPI / Riverchasers Tournament (88441526), Table 4 - 40/80 - No Limit Hold'em - 22:43:13 ET - 2009/04/27
Seat 1: mclarich (4,050)
Seat 2: Shlee1112 (966)
Seat 3: Astin (2,591)
Seat 4: cracknKK (10,690)
Seat 5: DaBag (3,405)
Seat 6: ElSnarfGrande (4,124)
Seat 8: iaatg6296 (4,752)
Seat 9: STING70 (4,609)
Astin posts the small blind of 40
cracknKK posts the big blind of 80
The button is in seat #2
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to mclarich [As Ad]
DaBag folds
ElSnarfGrande raises to 240
iaatg6296 folds
STING70 folds
mclarich raises to 640
Shlee1112 folds
Astin folds
cracknKK folds
ElSnarfGrande has 15 seconds left to act
ElSnarfGrande calls 400
*** FLOP *** [Ks 8s Th]
ElSnarfGrande checks
mclarich checks
*** TURN *** [Ks 8s Th] [Kd]
ElSnarfGrande checks
mclarich bets 560
ElSnarfGrande raises to 1,120
mclarich calls 560
*** RIVER *** [Ks 8s Th Kd] [Jd]
ElSnarfGrande bets 2,364, and is all in
mclarich calls 2,290, and is all in
Uncalled bet of 74 returned to ElSnarfGrande
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ElSnarfGrande shows [Ac Kh] three of a kind, Kings
mclarich mucks
ElSnarfGrande wins the pot (8,220) with three of a kind, Kings
mclarich stands up

Either way, this would have been one of those hands that did me in either way, as I'm sure the money's going in on the flop; for some reason, I thought checking the flop was sneaky or something. Of course he hits his two outer on the turn, and his check-raise tells me exactly that. I, however, am not the most disciplined poker player, and all I see is "wheeeee pretty Aces". I even had a chance to save myself half my stack on the river, but instead I put them all in when really the only hand that Snarf could have that I can beat is QQ. Stupid two outer, but even stupider play by me, the second time in as many blogger tournaments that I couldn't fold my overpair despite plenty of evidence suggesting I should.

Three years later, and my blog's name is still just as relevant.