$3,000 pot won with _____ high!!!!

joeblack · #1 06-26-2007, 02:19 PM

This is a true story that I witnessed at the Borgata almost a year ago. People always were interested to hear it at the poker table so I figured it would be a good story to post up in BBV.

A man franticly paces back and forth in the basement poker room of the Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ. He is down over $10,000 for the day and has the room a stir with his crazy antics. Wearing a faded jean jacket and tethered jeans he looks like a Motley Crew fan leftover from the 80's. He has been drinking a little and he just lost another buy-in in 5/10 NL. He stops his pace and meets with a floor man who knows him and they discuss re-buying. He says he has a duffle bag full of money in his room and wants to rebuy but doesn't want to lose his seat. Somehow the floor gives him a marker and they front him the newly lifted cap of $1,500 to buy back in the 5/10 NL game.

The table he is playing with is full of young sharks. I recognized all the faces as regulars who were licking their chops to get a piece of this deadbeat. The weathered man played super LAG and quick. Raising $100's preflop and pushing all-in on the flop, so to play with him you had to be rolled or you could be wiped out in a single hand. Guy raises to $40, the man yells all-in, everyone folds. Time after time, till....

Young Asian Kid sits in MP and raises up to $45, gets to the deadbeat who thinks for a minute and once again yells all-in!!! for $1,500. The Kid goes into a tank for a few minutes and tries to interrogate the man before finally calling the all-in completely nervous for all to see.

Flop is KKQ.....

Turn...Q...

River...3

The drama unfolds and the Asian kid gets erratic. He belts at the guy "What do you have?", "I don't know" replies the man. The kid looks so nervous that you know his hand is most likely dead. The man says "What do you got kid?".... embarrassed the kid replies "All I have is a ten high". The man checks his cards one more time and says "That's good kid".