I'm finishing up my session last nite and after two buy ins of $500 I've made my way to one rack of high society ($2500). Sucked out on a guy who flopped a straight and I had a set--river, you better believe it quads-- after that I won pot after pot. I go get my rack and as the dealer is asking for time she says hey you can have this hand for free. And what do I look down and find...pocket Kings. Why I'm so lucky. After a few limpers I raise to $40. 1st position limper calls and middle position calls. Flop comes Jc 8c 5d. It goes check, check and I bet $100. 1st position raises to $100. Middle position folds. Now I have a dilemma. He minimum raised me and I have no idea where I'm at. He could have a AJ (which wouldn't be a bad check raise and is common in this game) or he could be trying to buy a free flush card. Now how do I figure out what he has you say. Well I reraise him another $300. After about 30 seconds of thinking he flat calls me. Now this scared the shit out of me. Flat calling a pot sized reraise. Hard for me to put him on a club draw after that. And if he had a set I gave him the opportunity to move all in on me so thatt I could fold. The turn is a blank and he checks. The pot is already $1000. If he was on a flush draw I probably won't be able to get him out of the hand unless I go all in (but with both of us having a deep stack that would be commmitting suicide) and I don't need the pot to get any bigger since he could have me dominated and I'm just dumping more unnecessary money in the pot and lastly I was hoping that I catch my K so I check behind him. The reason I checked was because I don't see this player calling a huge reraise on a draw like that so I know he has a strong hand. The river pairs the board and doesn't really change much except that he has no flush. Now he bets $500. The pot is $1500. What do you guys do? keep in mind your getting 3-1 on your money so you have to be atleast 75% sure that he has you beat. I can only put him on two hands AJ or a set. I also might have induced a bet from the AJ on the river by checking the turn so that might also be the case. In retrospect all the bones in my body were telling me that he had a monster, but I still called and he showed me his flopped set of 8s. Net loss in hand $1000. 10 mins earler I would have left up $1500. Boy was I kicking myself for this one. What do you guys think.
-5hrs +500