AA -vs- KK - vs- QQ
While playing in the $600 No Limit Shooutout at the World Poker Finals in Foxwoods, this hand came up. It illustrates how pressure can affect the decisions that a player can make. There were about 35 people left when this hand happened:
Blinds: T500/T1000 + T150 ante
The button is in seat #9. It is folded to seat #7.
Seat 7: Raise to T6000
Seat 8, 9: Fold
Seat 10 / SB: moves all in for T19,000
Seat 1 / BB: Rereaises all in for T83,000 total
Both Seat 10 and Seat 1 have been playing extremely tight. Neither of these players had done anything out of the ordinary. For seat 10 to go all in, then to have the big-blind go over the top all-in, you can bet that the BB has either Aces or Kings. Either way, there are at LEAST aces or kings out there.
Seat 7 thinks and finally calls.
Seat 7 shows:
Seat 10 shows:
And Seat 1 shows:
What was Seat 7 thinking? When Seat #10 goes all-in, he says that he has a hand worth risking his tournament life. When Seat #1 goes over the top all-in, he is saying “bring it on”.
If seat 1 had folded, then it would be reasonable to call the all-in. However, when seat 1 pushes all-in over the top, QQ is an easy muck. Seat 7 asked a question with his QQ, and he received a very clear response. Seat 1 did the right thing by coming over the top for all of his chips. The hand played out like this:
Flop:
Wow. Could it be that the donkey is going to get rewarded? The turn is:
Bringing justice to seat 1. The river was a blank.
On a second re-reraise, it usually means somebody has Aces or Kings. QQ and AK in these situations are usually insta-muck hands. Maybe the pressure got to this guy.