Lost the biggest pot of my life

Its 2:15AM and I am pretty much in shock.

Poker has been going well lately, I have played about 8K hands this month (3.5K 25NL and 4.5K 50NL) and am up about $400 including RB and bonuses.

I ran very well tonight and in about 600 hands was up $250, and then I ended up in the biggest pot of my life!

Full Tilt Poker, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 6 Players
LeggoPoker.com - Hand History Converter

SB: $44.55
Hero (BB): $148.45
UTG: $4.95
MP: $147.40
CO: $55.70
BTN: $9.25

Pre-Flop: T T dealt to Hero (BB)
UTG calls $0.50, MP raises to $2.25, 3 folds, Hero calls $1.75, UTG folds

Flop: ($5.25) T 3 2 (2 Players)
Hero bets $3, MP raises to $10.50, Hero calls $7.50

Turn: ($26.25) Q (2 Players)
Hero bets $20, MP raises to $50, Hero raises to $135.70 and is All-In, MP calls $84.65 and is All-In

River: ($295.55) J (2 Players - 1 is All-In)

Results: $295.55 Pot ($3 Rake)
Hero showed T T (three of a kind, Tens) and LOST (-$147.40 NET)
MP showed Q Q (three of a kind, Queens) and WON $292.55 (+$145.15 NET)


I am in no way upset with the way I played the hand, MP is a solid player and I am pretty sure that he folds QQ/KK/AA to a re-raise on the flop and so calling flop and betting into him on the turn extracts the most value from AA/KK/QQ/AK/AQ/AT hands, so I put this down as a simple cooler. But DAMN, $292.55 is a LOT of cash.

Somehow, over the 900 hands I played today I managed to still finish up $50 so I can't complain, but I am in total shock. Despite all this I haven't (yet) gone on tilt and I hopefully wont. I am not going to play any poker tomorrow, and so will have some time to cool off.

Going to try to sleep now but somehow I don't think it will happen, loosing a pot like that is going to take a little while to get over, but hey, its only money!

I went to Nottingham last weekend to play in the University Poker League 4 Nations Final but haven't got round to writing a trip report yet, so hopefully will get that done in the next couple of days.

Damn! Poker is so rigged!