I was playing at a full table a few nights ago and all of us at the table ribbed this one player because he made an excruciatingly long decision as to whether to fold preflop when another player went all in on his $200 on pocket Ks.
Keep in mind all this betting was PREFLOP:
At this $1/2 NL table, the betting originally started with 3 callers limping in after the BB & SB. A fourth player raises to $15, who at the time we didn't know it, had pocket As.
Everone else folds to the BB who reraises to $30 (he has another $200 in front of him). All the original limpers fold to the fourth player who reraises to $50.
Back to the BB, he calmly calls "All-In" and pushes the rest of his $200 into the middle. There is now $287 in the pot. The fourth player, who originally raised preflop $15 looks dismayed at the BBs push All-In. He has about $400 in front of him and can definitely cover the BB but he picks up his cards and keeps staring at them with a look of resistance to calling the All-In bet.
We are all at this point thinking he obviously has a questionable calling hand...probably didn't have pocket pairs, maybe had A-K, A-Q, JJ....and was trying to decide if the BB had AA and that was why he didn't want to call him. There is huge tension as we wonder if the BB is going to win the $87 pot with his $200 All-In.
The fourth player keeps looking at his 2 cards and shaking his head, asking the dealer to count the BBs chips....the Dealer says, "that's $150 more to you." We all start wondering if they are going to put a time clock on him.
Finally he sighs and says, "I'll call it" and grudgingly puts in another $150. The BB says out loud, "Gee I must be doing pretty good with my Pocket Ks if its taking you so long to call me" He flips face up his pocket Ks and looks quite confident.....
The fourth player, who had such a time deciding whether he wanted to put another $150 in, flips over pocket As and all our mouths drop. "What the hell were you taking so long making your decision??" several people say at once.
"Is it a question that you call Heads-up an All In Preflop when you have pocket As?" Everyone says and looks at each other.
The fourth player responds with, "Pocket As NO GOOD, suited connectors are better."
The Dealer proceeds to flip over the flop, turn, and river....the Fourth Player's As hold up and he wins $287.
I guess he's a tight player if he didn't want to put that much on line heads-up preflop on pocket As?!!....
