biggest pot so far...

[Gary Stevenson]

so i'm playing 10-25nl at foxwoods last night when i get involved in my biggest pot to date. games is playing pretty big with some guys as deep as $60k and the players are decent compared to how bad most live games tend to play. onto the hand...

i have ~9k to start the hand and open $100 with A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] utg+1. i get 3 calls behind me and bb comes along

flop($500-) 9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]6 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]
bb (fairly tight player, his range here is like- flush, overpair, A9, set, 2pr to be betting out 5way) leads for $300.
i call bc it's a live game and of course live donks will overcall with any pair+ [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] or high [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] or whatever else they feel like burning money with at the time.. button calls too.

turn($1400) - K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
bb leads out for $1k (so he pretty much has a lower flush or set here always)
i raise to $3k with ~$5.3k left, button thinks for a while then eventually cold calls the $3k (he has me covered by a few hundo)
it gets back to bb and he says something about gambling and shoves his last ~$1k in on top of the $3k raise, i call and button calls (since we cant raise bc his shove is less than my raise size).

river (of doom [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]) (~$13.4k) - K [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]
bb practically jumps out of his seat and the whole table realizes he just boated up though no one says it. i tank bc i'm 99% sure button has a lower flush and i know i need to get some $ in a sidepot to get any $ from this hand...i take a minute or so and then finally shove my last ~$4.3k in praying for a call. button sighs and folds his K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]10 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] face up. i turn over my AQs and start moving it toward the muck waiting for bb to turn over his triumphant boat and his 99 scoops a nice $13.4k pot.

to make it worse i ask the button if he was calling a shove for my last $4.3k on the river if it had blanked and he said he was...would have been a nice ~$22k pot shipped my way if only the board hadn't paired *sigh*

also lost a 6k pot with AJ vs A7 on a J107 flop to some rich fish who bought in for $60k.

brag/variance- grinded back to even (until the $6k AJ<A7 pot) and only lost $2.8k on the session