HORSEy

So I played my last tournament here in Reno.  It was a pretty fun tournament that drew 70 peeps. I was pretty card dead the first few hours and then won some pots and hoovered around avg table stack forever. I eventually lost in the Stud8 round. I had around 9k in chips and picked up 2(JJ). I completed and got a call from the guy who was forced in. he was showing 2(xx)  I betevery street and was able to get it in on 7th when I was shown Q2 in the whole for a pair of 2's vs my jacks. 7th paired his 3s and I got a sweet looking trey to ship the 20k pot to him and bust me around 30ish. I was pretty happy with the way I played the entire tournament. One hand that is bugging me though where I should have trusted my gut/soul read came up in the hold'em game. I dont remember the blinds at the time but the table had tightened up a tad and I was probably the tightest at the table so I decided that I would raise any decent hand if it was folded to me in the HJ. Well I got what I asked for and looked down at a monster...T2sspadesss. I know prob not the best hand in the world to try and play limit holdem with but hey we have to get creative right? oh and note...when you make a play and want to trust your read stick to it?  anyways, i get a call from the bb...note about the bb, he limped utg with maybe 3-4bbs early with Q8s and quaded up when he hit 3 queens and was a pretty mediocre(at best) player. so we see a flop of Q82 (1 spade)..he checks to me and i bet and he check-raises me..at this point for some odd reason i figured he had J9, JT, T9 or some sort...i guess he can checkraise me with QJ,KJ etc etc type hands but like i said for some reason i was sure he didnt connect with the flop so i called. the turn brings a 4 of spades, giving me shitty bottom with a flush draw.  now if i would have trust my read this card really changes nothing for him and when he bet i should have raised...instead i called. the river brought A..so we have Q824A...again a meaningless river card to me. he bet and i thought for maybe 2 seconds and folded. to add insult to injury he thru his cards and they landed right by my chip stack T9o. ;) thnx gai. now this could be just some luck on my part orrrr my hand reading skills are getting a tad better. I like to think they are getting better, I'm feeling more comfortable assigning ranges and usually have them down pretty solid. So after numerous trials the next step is the cruical "trust your read" even if its as hairy as calling the maniac in seat 1 with bottom pair, you only gotta be right a small percentage of the time to make $$$$ right?