last night at Hollywood Park

[Marc M]

$1/$2 NL, $40 buy in. Young Russian-American guys sits to my left. Very friendly, nice guy, talkative, playing real loose. Twenty minutes or so in I am in the BB, and he raises to $8 UTG with about $60 behind. UTG+1 re-raises to $16 about $40 behind, 1 fold then MP2 pushes all-in for $47. Everyone else folds and it's back to the Russian guy. He flashes me QJo, and says "I don't think I can let this go". I smile, and then my jaw just about drops when I realize he's serious and pushes in all his chips to call. UTG+1 calls and flips over KK. MP2 turns over his obvious AA. Flop comes T8x, turn is a blank, and of course the river is a 9, and now the table has a conversation topic for the next hour.