Gotta love hands like these! I was playing 10/20 Stud. This is almost the perfect scenario. Here we go: I have an Ace up with pocket 10s in the hole. (As 10s 10d) and my opponent Mike to my left a very solid poker player has a King up. I raise representing the Ace and he calls and my nemesis this weird guy who has a little dude that always seats him at the table. I mean this guy looks like a character out of Rocky Horror Picture Show wearing thick dark black rectangle sunglasses, you know the kind that people in their 70s wear over their bifocals. The hand before I tried to bluff a flush and he called me with a lone pair of Jacks so I figured he would think I was on Tilt so I raised and was thinking, “This is the hand I am going to get him with because he is a massive calling station maniac from some other planet!” Now I could write a book on this guy but that’s another story. If you’re interested ask me about when I told him that, “I didn’t know that being able to assault your opponent physically was part of poker.” Okay back to the story. So I raised the hand and of course he and Mike and just about everyone at the table calls. I am on Tilt right! On the drop is a 10 of clubs I am thinking cool so I continue with a bet and Mike and the “Outer Space Guy” call. Didn’t I mention he wears all black? Well his wife wears all white to the casino and she too has her little guy assistant that seats her at poker tables, she once called me with a pair of fives when I had a full house, just for fun I made her show, ooh I am getting the creeps now. So the Ten on the drop is a great card. And knowing that Mike is a solid player, I feel he is real far behind now but he just calls making me suspicious. Fifth Street is a pretty good card a ten of hearts. So I figure well I probably won’t be called by anyone now so jokingly I check my hand and Mike says, “Okay I’ll Bite” and of course the Man in Black does what we expect, NO! I didn’t expect this, he raises. I just smooth call to try and keep Mike in the hand and then the unthinkable happens, Mike raises! The Man in Black of course calls and then I bump it to cap! The Man in Black has to call, that's what he does. I check sixth again and Mike bets the Man in Black calls and then I bump it again, “Mike says I have to raise ya pal.” The Man in Black finally folds I look at Mike and say “Raise!” Mike puzzled by this says’ “What do you have Quads?!?!” I say nothing. Mike calls and I look at the river card for 5 seconds then I bet. Mike just calls. Mike had rolled Kings from jump and was drawing dead on 5th Street, a King was folded by my buddy in black. Mike had Kings Full of Sevens and my quads took it down.
Pot Size $650+ so for the week that’s MY BEST HAND STORY! I took the money and donated it to my favorite charity, Stop and Shop, and bought myself a nice sirloin! Never play on an empty stomach and watch out for the Man in Black!
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