Just because I think Andy will like this one....

[Josh W]

There used to be a time when I posted a lot of hands, and I tried to tell neat little stories with them. Then I played in a home game with Andy Fox, and I valuebet bottompairbottomkicker on the river, and proudly announced my hand at showdown. And Andy chuckled heartily and often brought that up. Well, this one was more neater, to me anyways.

I'm playing 25-50, and all fold to me in the SB. Everybody I play with knows that I don't chop, but the lad in the BB didn't know me. I raised w/ J9, and he reached for his BB, to put it back in his stack.

I told him I never chopped, and he begrudgingly looked at his hand, and called with less than enthusiasm. I put him on a pretty bad hand, because he was aggressive and would threebet a lot of holdings here.

Flop came T75, rainbow, and I bet out with my gutshot. He called, somewhat quickly. Hmmm...

Turn was a 2. I checked, and he checked. I really felt that he had no pair here, and quite likely had a straight draw.

I thought that the best non-8 for my hand would be for the board to pair on the river. It did, with a 5. I check, he bet, and I insta-called.

He says "nice hand, I missed". I tabled my hand and proudly announced "Nut Jack high", thinking he may very easily have J8, and I didn't wanna slowroll and just announce jack-high.

He flashed my 98, shakes his head in disbelief, and says nice hand.

Ahh, the good ol' days when poker made sense...

Josh