[Phat Mack]

Hard to know what to make out of this hand. If it were played on my kitchen table, I would advise turning the nine over, turning the seven up, and raising 3rd street.

Since you didn't switch cards, and you called instead of raising, I have to assume that you thought seat 8 was a bad player. If you raise a nine behind a ten, and the ten is sentient, he might bail out, leaving you with the pot.

Even more curiously, you let the deuce on your left see a free 4th street. This leads me to believe that you are a genius, and here's why: If I were playing a 779 (note the use of the subjunctive), I would raise with it on 3rd in a futile attempt to get heads up with seat 8. This would fail, of course, and seat 4, sensing a pot brewing, would stay in, rivering a wheel. But you don't raise, you call, and seat 4 drops out of his own free __ing will, allowing you to be heads up with your targeted seat 8.

Ni han, sir. I can only assume that your two pair scooped.

mike i? mike i? Isn't he the guy they call the "Andy B of hold em?"