Last night, the betting was getting crazy at our home game.
The stacks moved around SO MUCH that it was impossible to really call any one person the chip leader until we were finished for the night.
I'm still tilted over this hand, not because of the fact that I lost, but simply for the fact that I was even called.
Background: NLHE 25/50 cent blinds, $20 buy-in, re-buy all you want.
It is about 1am, playing started around 10pm, there are 7 players at the table.
I'm sitting on about $80 in chips, having a pretty good night so far, playing only premium hands from good position. I've been a bully on my bluffs and a sneaky bastard on my nuts hands, and everyone is afraid of calling my raises at this point in the game.
I raise to $3.00 looking down at:
There are 4 callers until the BB player raises it to $10.00 with an all-in.
All other players fold to me and there is one player after me has yet to act. With the pot now being about $20+, and an $8 raise to me I think that I have pretty much two options. I'm thinking that if I call the desparate player, the woman after me will certainly call too, and it will be a 3 way pot. Not good with only 9 9. So my options (IMO) are to fold, or to push all-in myself, and knock her out so I can play heads up against the short stack.
I fiddle with my chips for a little while and decide to put out $30 on a re-raise, which is about 80% of her stack, believing that this should be enough to get her to lay down anything but a top tier hand, which I am gambling on her doing since she only called the previous raise and didn't re-raise it herself.
Faster than I can imagine the woman who is last to act after me, calls "all-in" for about $37. "Crap" I mutter, at this point I'm committed to the hand for only another $7.00, I certainly have to call.
The main pot and the side pot are squared away and we flip our hole cards.
Short stack reveals a monster hand:
I kind of figured he was on a good hand, but was willing to make that gamble against him for the price. He had been getting desparate and making some silly moves and getting busted on them all night long. Oh well, I'll catch him next time.
Then the woman flips over her cards:
My jaw hits the floor. "How can you push all-in on a K 5?" I ask her.
"They were suited." She replies with a giggle.
So right now I'm excited and thinking I'm in decent shape to take the much larger side pot against her and give up the $10.00 and first raise to the pocket bullets.
Then comes the flop:
Great. So she and short stack are gonna take half my stack now. But it gets worse. All betting has stopped since two of the 3 players are all in.
The turn:
The river: (To add insult to injury)
I would have ripped my hair out, except I am bald already.
I'm not tilted that I lost, but this morning, even after cashing in for over $60 at the nights end, I am still taunted by that friggen K 5 of Spades.
She pushes all-in on a "sooted" [sic] K 5 and pulls a house to win the ENTIRE POT of about $90, probabaly one of the best pots of the night.
I just don't know how some people can do it.
Never in my thousands of hands of poker would I even consider pushing all-in pre-flop on a hand like that.
I told her afterwards, "There is gambling, and there is luck. I was gambling, and you got lucky."
She responded, "I just felt in my gut that this was the winner, and besides, they were suited."
"But they were suited!" 
Linear Mode
