All of your analysis of when you conclude you 'played a hand bad' involves not folding very good hands for one more bet. It is very results oriented and not productive to learning how to play well. If the guy hadn't had the straight, and you called with your set of 2s and it was good, would you still think you played the hand bad? Probably not. Then why do you think you played the hand bad?
You didn't provide much about the board in terms of texture, but the 'playing bad' part of the set of 2s hand might have been clearing the field on the flop. You may have wanted people to call one bet on the flop if they were drawing thin or dead to you. Raising and knocking everyone out may have been the mistake. Think about those parts of your play, not whether or not a call down worked out.
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Date: 2005-03-13 15:57 (UTC)You didn't provide much about the board in terms of texture, but the 'playing bad' part of the set of 2s hand might have been clearing the field on the flop. You may have wanted people to call one bet on the flop if they were drawing thin or dead to you. Raising and knocking everyone out may have been the mistake. Think about those parts of your play, not whether or not a call down worked out.