Born To Be Wild

[Howard Burroughs]

I recently posted a hand where I played a hand a tad to passively. This a hand I played where I went a tad too wild IMHO.


This is an actual hand that if you were not there, it will probably be hard to believe it in fact did happen in an elegant Las Vegas poker room.

I'm in very EP with pocket kings. To make a long pre-flop story short, 10 players see the flop for five bets each with myself and the BB doing all of the pre-flop raising.


J T 2 (two hearts)


10 players see the turn for five more bets each with myself & Mr BB doing all of the betting & raising once again.


J T 2, 6 (putting up two clubs)


J & T are both hearts and the 2 & 6 are both clubs (in case Lee Jones is reading).


Sb checks, BB bets, UTG calls, I'm next and I raise. we lose just one player. This time the BB just calls my raise.


9 players pay two big bets each to see the river card.


The river brings the 3 of spades.


It's checked to me. I bet. Everyone folds.


As the dealer is pushing me the pot, he comments that this is the biggest pot he has ever seen without a showdown.


It was like something out of the Twilight Zone.

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There is no question that I way overplayed my kings. I was trying to knock players out behind me (once the pot got big). I went a bit overboard in the heat of poker combat.


There's also no question that I got very, very lucky with this hand.


How should I have played it? Where did I go wrong?


Thanks in advance for any input.

Best of Luck

Howard