I get dealt pocket Ks (King diamonds, King spades) in mid-position and am seen as a tight player at the table. I had been playing with these guys for an hour and a half.
When the call is to me, there are 4 people already in the pot limping in with the big blind of $2 (I'm playing $1/2NL). I put in a raise of $10 and the rest of the table folds to the big blind.
He calls my bet, and everyone folds except player #4 from the Dealer button. So it is the three of us in. ------------------------------------- THE FLOP COMES: 7 diamonds, 3 clubs, Ace diamonds -------------------------------------- I'm thinking if both players called me (they were semi-tight) for my $10 preraise flop, one at least probably has an ace and has just paired up. So now my kings are no good and there is about $35 in the pot.
Both players check to me and I'm last to bet, and decide to put a modest feeler bet in to see if they'll call me or reraise me...then I know someone has an ace. I bet another $15 and get called by both of them. This confirms my gut that the Ace was paired. They weren't check-raisers by nature, so the fact that they just called, made me suspect they had aces with lower kickers. I also felt they wouldn't call another $15 bet on a flush draw with an ace on the board, the pot odds weren't right to call a flush draw knowing I raised pre-flop.
They would suspect I also had an Ace like I suspected they had. ----------------------------------- THE TURN COMES: 10 diamonds ----------------------------------- So now with three diamonds on the board, someone could have a flush. I decide in that few seconds after the turn, that if both players check, I will immediately bet big without hesitation so that they will think I just made my flush.
Both players check, and with about $80 in the pot and I have about $100 in front of me and I know they generally feel I am too tight to bluff or semi-bluff, I immediately push my stack in the middle and call, "ALL-IN"
They both immediately fold, thinking they don't want to risk their "paired Ace" on my represented made flush bet.
If I had been more passive and checked too, you can bet that pot would not be mine, because semi-tight players do not call two $15 bets with not enought pot odds and with one of them being a pre-flop bet, with an Ace on the board unless they had an Ace themselves.
I also felt the need to go over the top with $80 in the pot. To me, any lower a bet would make them want to call me if they paired their Ace, just in case their kicker was big enough. They'd already each committed $25 in the pot, so I had to go All-in and without hesitation, to tell them that without a shadow of a doubt, they better have something better than a pair of aces, or better than the highest flush, to call me.
