Taking shots is fun (low content)

[jgorham]

For the past 3 weeks I have been taking shots at the 40/80 game at oceans 11. The game has been pretty good, with several weak spots, but nothing completely insane. Yesterday, however, one player decided to drink a lot and play all his hands. The interesting thing is he is a very nice, personable gentleman, whose charisma inspired another player to do the same. Then another. Pretty soon everyone at the table was a LAG and had overs buttons (if you don't know what these are, they make the bets doubled when only players with overs are left in the pot). It was actually physically dangerous not to play overs, as the players would each throw the yellow buttons at anyone who didn't have them.

Anyway, on to the hand. I am dealt black 8's on the button. UTG straddles. There are 4 callers to me, and I 3bet. One of the blinds calls, the straddler caps it (as he did so he explained he hadn't yet looked at his cards). 7 of us to the flop as overs take effect.

The flop comes Ts 8h 3s. The straddler bets, callers to me, I raise, straddler 3bets, race for more callers, I cap it. 5 of us see the turn.

Turn is 2h (Ts 8h 3s). Straddler now looks at his cards, gets excited, and bets. This time only 2 players called, and I raised it. They all called around. 4 to the river.

River Ks. Checked to me, I bet, straddler checkraises, 2 folds, I call. Straddler shows KK for the largest pot I have ever seen, and I die a little.