I set the “best night ever” bar higher tonight, playing 1/2 NL at Harrah’s KC and walking out with over $900. It was a good night; the cards were with me. I flopped a lot of two pair and sets to my pocket pairs.
One story: there were a ton of straddle bets and, since I like to punish straddlers, I raised a lot of hands to $12 pre-flop. In one of them I was in the Small Blind and the button straddled the bet to $4. I found two red Queens in my hand and made what was a pretty standard raise at that point to $12. The player to my left, in the Big Blind who had been straddling all night and playing fairly loose/agressive, announced a raise and tossed in the $12 call. Before he could put out his raise, though, the player to his left pushed all in, not having heard the raise announcement. The Dealer halted action and let everyone know there was still a raise coming from the BB and he made the bet another $165, much more than the all-in which followed him.
So, recap: I raise to $12 with QQ, a player re-raises all-in to $165 and two other players call all-in behind him. Action comes back to me and I have to call $165 to play in a pot of approximately $370. I thought about it for a long time before deciding that, even if I was up against pocket Aces and pocket Kings, the pot was big enough for me to call since I had more than enough chips to handle the raise. So, after much hemming and hawing, I called. The other hands in action were 77 (the big re-raiser!), 66 and A4s. The dealer put the board out and, to make a long story short, my Queens held up for a monster pot.
I left not long thereafter and shot the photo on my way to the Cashier’s cage.
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