Busting with KK
By eight o’clock 4 other players, including Marciel, had arrived and we were ready to get playing. I remembered how crazy the last game was and decided that rather than playing relatively short stacked with only $200 in front of me, I would play with $300 and see what happened.
The game finally got going with me, Marciel, and the five others playing and Jaimo dealing. The two guys with Jaimo were all playing short stacked, they bought in for $100 a piece and the others all bought in for $300 to $600. Immediately the game started going a little crazy. I realized why the buddies were buying in for only $100 when both of them were all-in within the first ten minutes. Even stronger than that, they were both called when they pushed. One doubled up and the other rebought. Apparently the first game wasn’t a fluke.
The game was running pretty standard with Marciel raising every time it came to him and everyone else calling, with me trying to play solid / nitty when this hand came up. By this time we had a full 10-handed game. I had worked my way up to a little over $400 and most of the rest of the table had the same or more. I was under the gun and looked down at KK (suits didn’t matter in this hand). Knowing it was going to get raised and called I decided to limp in for $3. One other player called before Marciel raised to $30 and five other players called before it got back to me. With $190 in the pot I went all-in with my $400, figuring either I would take it down right there, or I would get a call with a medium pair who thought I was just trying to buy the pot. The next limper folded, as did Marciel and the following two players. Marciel’s third caller thought for about a minute before he shoved all his chips in the middle, about $600, and everyone else folded.
Now, in tournaments it is pretty standard that if you go all in and get called you have to turn over your hand. This is not the case in cash games, but in most casinos people will turn over their hands. Not so in this game. The board ran out 9572…J. He waited for me to show my hand, looked down at his, looked back up at mine, looked back down at his, and rolled over J9 for 2-pair…
