Life Lessons: Never Insta-Muck!!

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Whew.... narrowly avoided doing this last week at Harrah's/St. Louis.

Midway through a $140 MTT with 70 players, I have about 8,000 chips with blinds at 400/800 and going up the next hand.

I bluffed all-in for my last 4500 holding AJ with a board of 775T2. Opponent went into the tank for 3 or 4 minutes and finally called (he had me covered barely).

Knowing I'd gotten caught with my hand in the cookie jar, I almost tossed my cards into the muck but thought better of it.

I showed my measly ace/jack and he turned over K8. He said "I knew you didn't have anything but didn't think you had an ace". Left himself with about 2 BB's and he was out of the tourney soon.

Reminded me of the old adage "in order to call a bluff, you have to be able to beat a bluff".