Donkey Or Not?

My Annual Vegas Trip wasn,t exactly a massive success this year. I only cashed 3 times in the tournaments and turned a small loss on the cash tables. The cost of the buy-ins is well over my winnings which is not good.
On the plus side I was basically freerolling anyway as the trip was paid for by winnings from this year.
However the line between success and failure in poker can be pretty thin, and I,m not too down about the whole trip, as looking through my results in many of the tournament exits I had I was either ahead or flipping and in later stages of the tournaments, if you,ve not built up a big enough stack and the antes are kicking in you often don,t have much choice but to ship decent hands and hope they hold up.
The one hand though that put me on massive tilt for the last couple of days was at the cash game at Planet Hollywood. I'm still not sure if I should have got away from it.
I mentioned it in the previous blog as well, but here in a bit more detail -


I sat down with $200 and pretty soon identified the two local sharks at each end of the table, feasting off the tourists, who would continuously buy in for $100 and one drunk French guy in particular who kept reloading relentlessly for $50 dollars and playing every single hand.
I got involved a bit and got my fair share off this particular guy as well and I managed to pull a few timely bluffs to build my stack up to $400 dollars pretty quickly.
No-one at the table had a massive stack apart from the two sharks, the one guy at the far end - the villain - had about $800 and the guy to my left who was on a slightly larger stack to me around $500 .
 The standard raise at the $1/2 was either $7 or $12, so when I got AK in utg + 4 I raised to $20 to clear the way abit, the 2 limpers left and I got 2 callers, the villain who was on the button and the guy to my left.
The flop came down Ace, 6, 2 rainbow. I c-betted to $33 the guy to my left folded and the Villain called (Alarm bells starting to ring in my head!).
The Villain had been playing solid poker, he no doubt did his share of stealing but wat able to lay down hands and he was obviously a dangerous player. 
The turn brought a pretty harmless looking 7 but, I chose to check, two reasons, pot control, and to maybe make it look like I had missed or had a hand like kings or queens..
The Villain puts in a hefty $75 bet - I ran through all the hands in my head which I could put him on. I knew he was pretty solid and had something but - a set? Possible, with the flop being rainbow, but I don,t think he would be trying to chase me away with a big bet if he had one. Ace rag - again seems unlikely as I,m repping the big Ace and the rags would have to be pretty low, Ace 6, Ace 7 Ace 3 or Ace 2. Pocket Aces? Ruled out for obvious reasons. There were no real draws there so I concluded he either had the same hand as me, or possibly AQ, AJ, A10 something like that, he doesn't want me in the hand either hence the big bet. So I decide to min raise him and see if it slows him down.
No such luck, he looks a little bit uncomfortable with the move but after a couple of minutes of deliberation and scrutinising me he announces "all in" - at this stage every alarm bell in my head is ringing full blast and I take an age running through the same calculations as previously, I can still fold and have $200 dollars odd left, but I just cannot see whats beating me. Every voice in my head is now screaming FOLD FOLD FOLD! but I just can't find the fold and find myself saying I call.
Theres now over $800 dollars in the middle of the table. The dealer turns over the river, and its nothing significant, in fact I can't even remember what it was, neither of us wants to turn the cards. He eventually announces "Two Pair" I say "Two pairs good" and he tables Ace 7 off .
I say "nice hand" and muck face down. Jacket on and I,m off out of the casino - I don't want to be there any longer, I am so steaming - and I feel like I've been trussed up like a turkey.
I've now ran through that hand so often in my head, and I still can,t make my mind up if it was simply bad play or unavoidable.