I was recently playing a side game at Gala in Leeds, the blinds were £1/£2, I was on the button holding AA. There was one good player on the table ( 10 people ) and all the rest were fish imho.
I raised it to £20 and got 4 callers. Immediately I knew the aces were probably useless unless I flopped a set, so basically I played the hand ( minus the £20 bet ) as if I was holding a small to medium pocket pair.
The flop came 5 hearts, 6 hearts and 9 clubs. Player 1 bets out £30, player 2 Raises another £30 and player 3 smooth calls.
I mucked the aces without batting an eyelid and went for a ciggie.
With how you described the two loose players, sounds like there fish to be honest, in a 10/20 side game, internet also I assume, you might as well raise 25 times the bb and possibly more with QQ KK AA. Because if you cant see yourself laying queens or kings or aces down when its a rag flop with several callers, you have to ask yourself if side-games are for you to be perfectly honest. You didnt do anything wrong in the hand really, just someone got luckier than you, you got dealt 2 queens, and he flopped 2 pair. It evens itself out usually, even when the odds are calculated.
He got lucky just like you did.
Personally, I would make the call with a hand like 6 7 following a raise from a "rock" as you described yourself ( nothing wrong being a rock btw, I wish I could be one sometimes
) as I know if I catch a flop i'll double through you, and if you think about it, 2 quid isnt much to call in low-stakes games is it, not for a smart player or a reckless fish ?
Ive been playing 7 years, and since 2004 the poker world has exploded, its basically hatched, imho bad player after bad player, who all think there good because they got lucky and won a tournament/s or got paid for slow playing a set.
I have brought a young lad on over the past 6 months, and the first thing I made quite clear to him was that poker isnt, and never will be about playing ace-king.