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Great report and consistent with my experience although I'm not there near as frequently as you.

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I lost the biggest pot of my life that month and have not won a pot close to that size and it was still the most profitable month I have had ever.

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Give us the scoop on your huge lost pot.

Kevin

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It was a particularly juicy Saturday night towards the middle of the month, which had been incredible to me (+ ~20K in 1/2 month). I sat in a 10/20 NL game at the Bellagio when it was really in the groove back when the tables were outside during contstruction, but they had all the extra tourney tables out for the WPT. I was normally sitting with $2-6K at the first must-... , -move game depending on game conditions and most people at this table didn't have too much. I just sat with $2K. I ran well and was at ~$5K when I got to the 2nd table. At this table in seat 1 was some extremely rich kid who is family friends with Bill Gates, seat 2 Phil Laak, seat 3 Jennifer Tilly (don't know about now, but she was still learning and sucked back then), and me in seat 4. The stacks were DEEP. This kid in seat one had 40K in his shirt pockets hanging out in cash as well as the same on the table. He was piss drunk and going all in on almost every flop.

I decided this was a good shot to win some money becuase Phil is normally a loose cannon in this game and the kid was nuts and rich. I pulled out 2 flag chips and announced them into my pile.

I got dealt AA in EMP

Phil makes it $80 to go UTG (~$25K) (he was actually playing pretty tight thus far, either rebuying for Tilly or talking to fellow pros playing higher stakes)

I make it $400 to go with AA (~$15K) (I knew the crazy rich guy might raise this and AT LEAST call and possibly put me in on the flop.

The Rich Kid (~$40K) calls in the BB as does Phil

The flop AK5 rainbow ($1210)

To my suprise Phil leads out for about $800

I decide to call and tempt the kid into making a mistake and he did

Rich Kid goes all in for $40K.

Phil immediatly folds and laughs and I call in a heartbeat and flip over my AA.

He starts shaking his head as the turn comes Q and the river comes T, still shaking. He is about to much his hand as Phil points out that he has a J on the bottom of his mucking cards (which made the nuts), Phil grabs his cards and flips them over. He had J4. Rich Kid rakes in nice pot and I get up and wish everyone good luck. I was pretty upset that night, mostly for allowing myself to put that much money into play at once. Anything can happen.

The cards ran hot for the rest of the month and I had an unbelievable run of cards whenever I played 10/20 or 25/50 for the rest of the month.