B & M Experience

Love the Raise Reraise
By Punkymonroe

About a year after I started playing holdem, I moved up from the $2/4 limit tables to the $4/8 ones. One of my first times playing $4/8 at Foxwoods I got involved in an interesting hand. I was in the big blind and looked down at Ad 6h. It was limped around to me and I checked. The flop came 9d, 6d, 3d. I bet out with my middle pair and the nut flush draw...two called. The turn came with the Kd. I bet again, and one called. The river came with the Th. I bet out again and the guy raises me. Okay, I'm looking at the board and yep I really do have the nuts. So I re-raise him, and he re-raises me again.

Okay...I re-assess the situation and look at the board again and peek at my cards. Yep, I still have the nuts....I re-raise again. He starts shaking his head, looks at his cards and raises me again. Well there is no cap on re-raises when heads up so I of course re-raise him again. He re-raises me again and says "we must have the same hands". I'm thinking to myself "oh my mister, that's just not possible". A guy at the other end of the table pipes up "I don't know what he has, but I definitely know what she has." I was ready to jump over the table for having talked during a hand such as this but I restrained myself as I'm trying to get as much money in the middle.

We re-raise each other about ten times and then I hear him say "I guess I'm just going to call". I look at the dealer who is looking at me waiting for me to act after he called, I'm assuming here he's waiting for me to flip my hand over so I start to do so. The dealer says "whoa there, he raised again" and stopped me from turning my hand over. I got confused as I just heard him say he was going to call and I said "What? Didn't I call?" OMG, did I just say that? I meant to say "What? Didn't HE call?" Now the dealer says "well you did now, no more raising...it's a called hand."

Oops, there was a mistake I won't make again. I swore I said "didn't he call" but the dealer swears I said "didn't I call". I was a little upset at the situation but was also very curious to see the hands be flipped over and heck there was still a ton of money in that pot and was going to be very happy raking it in. Our cards are turned over (me with the nut flush and him with Qd Jc...the 2nd nut flush) and the dealer starts pushing me the pot. The other guy says "wait, I win! I have a straight flush."...the dealer says "no you don't" and the guy comes back with "I have a straight and a flush, so I have a straight flush." Now I understood why he kept raising, he was new to cards and didn't understand hand rankings. I think it was a lesson learned on both our parts that day and it was definitely a hand I'll probably never forget.