Wow. I’m a little stunned. I was playing great poker and had the biggest stack at the table, when the following happened.
The blinds are 100/200 with 25 ante, and I’m in the big blind with KK. There’s a middle position raise to 650. The shortest stack at the table goes all in for 375 more. The small blind just calls. I want to take it down and go heads up against the short stack who is likely a weak ace, so I push all in for around 12K.
The initial raiser goes into the tank for 4 minutes or so. He has about 3100 in chips left. I should also mention that there’s a tournament director standing by ready to break down our table to send us elsewhere. Finally the initial raiser says something like “I got aces cracked just before a table break yesterday, so I’ll lay these down.” (I later found out he held QQ.)
Now the small blind goes into the tank for a little while, counts and recounts his chips. It turns out he has about 11K. During his deliberations, he says “I have a pocket pair, which makes this hard.” Eventually, he makes the all-in call.
We all turn them up. All-in short stack has JJ. All-in small blind has 33. Yes, 33. I have KK. You guessed it, dear readers, the river brought a 3, and I’m now down to exactly 1000 chips as I move to the new table, neck sore from all the bewildered head shaking over this guy’s call.
I folded 4 hands in a row before picking up AJ and moving all in. I’m called by 88. The flop brought me an A, but the river brought him an 8, so I’m done.
Robyn is still in, and severely short stacked. Hopefully she’ll bounce back and win the 48K prize pool.
Me, I’m off the to the craps table.
