[A_C_Slater]

At one point 3 handed Corkins open raises on the button for 10xbb with 43s. Can anyone explain the intent behind this play? Matusow calls him with A6o in the big blind and then pushes some ten high rag flop that Corkins has no piece of, he almost has the nut low, but so much money is already in the pot that he has to call just in order to hit some backdoor pair/str8 in case Mike just has overs.

Why such a big initial raise with this hand? Why not just push if you have to call on the flop anyway after commiting so much of your stack?

Is Corkins just a rich donk that play's a lot of tournaments? He does own a cattle rich. Those guy's make really good money.