Tonight I was playing my regular 1/3 max buyin 300 NL live game at my local venue. The table was short handed (7), loose and weak compared to usual.

I am card dead for 3 hours and am hovering around even.

I am in the big blind with QTs of clubs. A drunk maniac reg (75/50) opens in the MP for $15 and the button calls . I call and an early position fish with a $1800 stack (he got lucky multiple times, 40/8 calling station) calls. There is $61 in the pot.

Flop is Ac Kc 5d. I check, the EP fish donkbets $40, its folded to me and I shove for $295. He snap calls and shows A7 offsuit. Turn and river are bricks and I lose my stack.

I did have a reasonably good knowledge that I didn't have a great deal of fold equity there but was there a better way I could have played?


Next hand: I am dealt AA in the small blind. Its folded to cutoff who raises to $15. He is a weak player stats of about 40/10.
I min 3bet to $30 and he calls.

Flop is Q 9 4r. I bet $30 into $63 and he calls.
Turn is a 9 still no flush draws. I bet $60 into $123, he shoves and I call my remainung $180. He shows AQ offsuit.

River is of course a Q.

Any other better way I could have played it?

How to lose 2 buyins in 4 minutes. As it standards am now on 6 buyin downswing and lost the last 5 times with AA.

I'm going to lock this up, as there's no way for me to edit it to take out results, and it sounds more like a bad beat story than a strategy question. If you'd like to repost the hands, please do so without giving results. Stop at your big decision point and don't indicate what you did, much less what V showed or what cards came after the money went in.

Cliffs are that the shove in hand one is bad, as the reason we shove big draws is for fold equity with card equity to fall back on, and you had no fold equity. Hand 2 is somewhat of a cooler, but your bet sizing is too small.