[ba-poker] big capped small blind NLHE pot

[Michael Hunter <michael.hunter1(deleted the rest)>]

Michael Chow was amused by this pot and thought it would make for a good
posting.  Before anybody approaches me with their hand out I don't
consider this a bad beat.  There were two hands which got their money in
with an overlay.  One wins, one doesn't.  Next.

Game is a 2-3 NLHE with a $200 max buy in at the Horizon Lake Tahoe.  I
open the pot with TT for something like $10.  I'd been opening lots of
pots and had about a $600 stack.  Everybody and their brother calls to
the button who takes a moment.  During that time the small blind
(~$500) starts talking about how it would be hard to fold, how loose the
game was, etc. and THEN looks at his cards, sits up straight, and when
the button has finally called raises.  Now, I don't remember the numbers
exactly, but I think there is something like $60 in the pot and he makes
it $80 straight (remember that for a moment).  Everybody calls. 6 see
the Qs Tc 4s[1] flop. Small blind bets out $100, I make it something
like $400 aware that almost everybody (oops; except for the blind) has
less then that in front of them. Everybody calls all in (some pretty
funny acts in all of this as some call smelling blood even if its their
own) to the small blind who starts carping about how he would really be
a player if he could just lay this down, etc. and finally lays down the
obvious hand face up. I turn up my set and Keith(from the palace) turns
up J9s. Nobody else shows.  As on the turn with a blank on the river and
Keith scoops a $1490 pot in a 2-3 NLHE game. Of course the small blind
figures out he would have made some money on the side but decides that
he did everything right because he "raised pot".

Maybe not as amusing in the retelling as being there.  But its the first
~$1500 pot I've seen in a capped small blind NLHE game.

                   mph

[1] I'm not certain of the suit of the T.  It wasn't a spade.

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