WSOP Circuit: Lake Tahoe Edition Part III

Well, after that first event, not much else has panned out. That mainly has to do with the fact that my brother went in for surgery after he got a fairly large piece of wood lodged in his pinky. He just got out yesterday, but it has curbed my ability to play in any more events. I could play in the $500 event today, but I am going to go to the rennaisance faire with my brother instead. I do plan on hitting up a nice session tonight though.

Anyways, here is the weird hand I played on Thursday. I am at the 3/5 NL feeder table. This guy sits down two to my left and has been staddling $10 UTG everytime and then doing a steal raise when there is no action besides limping when it comes to him. A new guy sits down between us with about $300 and posts the BB this hand. It is folded to me in the SB and I call $7 more with 97o. I have about $800 and the UTG straddle guy has me covered. BB calls and UTG does his usual steal raise to $35. So I reraise him to $125. And the BB cold calls! That really threw me off. He has a little bit about $150 left and I decide to put him all-in if I catch a piece. Of course, the UTG quickly folds his shenanigens.

The flop is K93 rainbow, I put the BB all-in and he calls with KJo. Now that blew my mind! Why not just stick it in there preflop or at least do the courtesy of folding like I wanted him to. Of course, the turn is a 7 and the river is a 9 and the whole table just gawks at me when I sheepishly flip over my cards. Now I've got a real crazy table image!

Of all of the hours I've put in on those tables this week, that hand come so out of left field for the play I had been observing. The expression on my face was priceless.