flopped a boat.. now what?

It's always wonderful to flop the boat, now isn't it??

I was playing in the satelites at the Rio for the WSOP events, and had just won a pot.

Cards were dealt around, the UTG limped in, as did the person next to him, and I was still picking up my chips from the previous hand, so, when it came to me, and the blinds were not too big, so distracted, I didn't even bother to look at my cards, I thought ... what the heck, and just tossed in the needed amount, and went back to counting my chips (I was two off from the UTG position), and no one raised before the flop.

Well, the flop came A, 9, 9 with two spades.

The blinds check, as does the UTG and his neighbor, I check (still counting my chips after all from the previous pot), and the guy after me bets the pot.

It went fold, fold, fold to the button, who said raise ... and then doubled what was in the pot.

Well, the blinds fold, as does the UTG and his neighbor, and it came to me ... and now I HAVE to look.

I look down ... and find the rockets.

It was all I could do to keep from shaking.

I just happened to had stacked from my previous pot win, the exact amount, so since my hands were starting to shake, I put them flat on the felt, and waited and waited in an effort of hoping they'd stop. They didn't, so I slowly pushed that stack in (and I'm sure now due to my hesitation, the guy thought I was on a flush draw or something), and said in a small voice, call.

By now, both men left in the hand, have misread what I have ... and think I'm on a flush draw, and the guy to my left, then announces 'all in' (figuring at the very least, that *I* would fold I guess).

The guy on the button, who has more chips then the guy who went all in, but LESS chips then me (but not by much), then says ... I go all in too.

They are both now looking at me expectently ... (expecting me to fold), to which I say ... I call them both.

We all flip over our cards, and they look in stunned silence at my rockets.

One guy has Ace 9, the other guy has 8,9 suited (red, I can't remember which suit).

Sometimes ignorance (not knowing what you have before the flop) is bliss ... [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]