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I honestly cannot believe this hand happened.

Live 1/3 NL at a club in Chicago. Went to play 10/20 mixed game and it wasn't running. Game was, um, quite good.

Eff. stack is like 350. Guy raises to $10 UTG, CO calls, I call on the button with 9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. Flop 8 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 7 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. Check, check, I bet $20, call, call. Turn is the 3 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. Check check check. River is the 5 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] . UTG bets $75, CO calls, I shove.

UTG starts agonizing. He shows everyone around him, but doesn't show me to get a reaction. "I can't believe I'm gonna fold this." Yeah, whatever buddy, badly played overpair/7/whatever no good. Call please. He thinks for three, four minutes. The whole time I'm doing everything I can to induce a call, trying to act the same way I did when bluffing in an earlier pot. I suck at live stuff like that though. He asks if I'll show. I say "I'll show if I'm bluffing." (I'm not sure what I think about this as a tell/reverse tell whatever). Etc. Etc.

Finally he folds (the other guy folds too) and keeps asking to see the hand. The whole table wants me to show. So I show. Blah blah, whatever, see I had it.

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He folded the nut flush. AQ spades. He actually never showed me but four people near him or behind the table (and the look on his face when I showed my hand) confirmed it.