I Thought that's What We Were Doing Already

Debate the merits of Peter Hedlund's line all you want. He raised preflop, then called a re-raise to 3,800 made by the big blind. On a flop of {7-Clubs}

, the big blind bet 2,000. Hedlund said, "OK, I'm all in" and shoved his chips into the middle in a pile. The dealer counted them down as 4,800.

Hedlund, chugging from a glass of wine, waited patiently while his opponent pondered a call. "Ace-king?" he finally surmised. "No straight draw. No flush draw." It appeared he was trying to talk his opponent into a fold. The problem for Hedlund's opponent was that there was about 15,000 chips in the pot. He was getting better than six-to-one odds to call, so call he finally did.

Hedlund made top pair of jacks with {K-Clubs}

. That left him in excellent shape against the big blind's {A-Diamonds}

. The board ran out {5-Clubs}

to make Hedlund the winner.

"Oh my god," the big blind sighed in disgust. "What a call."

"Yeah, it was dumb," Hedlund agreed. "But I'm drunk." A friend of Hedlund's turned up at that moment, to Hedlund's great delight. "Now we start drinking heavily!" he shouted.

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