Low stakes limit hold’em game on Party Poker. Loose, generally fishy table. In the big blind I am dealt:
Two players limp, the small blind raises and I call. The first limper calls the second re-raises, small blind re-re-raises and I have a think.
Betting is capped, I’m up against four loose players who even with all this action could have just about anything. I have to put at least one of them on a big pocket pair which could leave me drawing close to dead but given that these players seem pretty comitted to their hands I decide it’s worth at least seeing a flop where I can re-evaluate the hand and throw it away if I don’t hit two-pair or better. So I call, as does everyone else and we see the flop:
Just the kind of flop I was hoping for, but I still have to be wary of the preflop action and look out for JJ, AK or even KJ. Still I like my chances and I can’t be too scared of the bigger hands and even if they are out there I do have outs against all of them. So, the UTG player bets and I raise. The player to my right re-raises, the button caps and I wonder what I’ve gotten myself into. I’m gettng 14.5:1 to call and if I don’t already have the best hand I figure I’m drawing to 4 outs to win (3 queens and 1 king) as well as a jack to tie if no one has JJ. So if I’m behind I’m almost getting odds to call and certainly my implied odds are good enough, add to this the chance that I’m already winning and I have to call. So I do. As does everyone else and we go to the turn:
I blink a couple of times and once again am thankful that I’m playing on-line (I can only imagine I was grinning like a mad man). Great card for me, but surely now these guys are going to slow down… right?
Well, UTG bets, I raise, player to my right re-raises and the button caps. Ok… I can play this game. I call. The river is a ten and we dance the same dance again, four players capping the betting. Once all the money is in I turn over my quad kings and take a look at what everyone else had.
UTG:
– no real business being there after the flop.
Player on my right:
– optimistic, probably hoping for a tie. Why re-raise?
The button:
– unlucky, but should have slowed down on the third king.
This hand now takes the record for largest pot (in terms of big bets) that I’ve won at limit hold’em table – 46 big bets! Sometimes I really love this game 
