Call Blind??? Yeah, why not....

So, I'm somewhat recovered from my latest adventure in Laughlin, NV.

Since I was most likely overserved and under dealt during much of the stay, there is only one real standout hand to tell you about. We stayed at Harrahs and only played there during this trip.

Now, the table has been tight, but lots of verbal jabbing from a very sassy schoolteacher from the I.E. (Inland Empire for those of you not in SoCal). Apparently many of the 10 players at the table were also at the same table the night before and were yapping at each other all night. I decided to be a bit quiet and just listen and learn a little about them for the first couple of hours, but couldn't do it all night and became involved in some of the talk (I can't help it, I'm a better smartass than a poker player). I bought in for $100 at the 3/6 w/a kill table and like I said this happened after I had won about 3 hands in two hours. The pots were all pretty smallish in the $30 to $40 range, and I was pretty much seen as tight and aggressive at this point. I believe I was UTG +2 here as well, but like I said the memory is hazy from the other events that evening.

I decided to go have smoke just outside the room but in full view of the table and as I walked I asked to be dealt in. A couple of minutes later the Dealer (Victor) looked up and asked what I wanted to do. I yelled out "CALL", and got back into my conversation only for him to ask me again. "CALL AGAIN" I said, and I was now hearing a bit of laughter from the table as I knew I better get my ass back to the table before I called away too many chips on a lark. Since everyone is now giggling about my insanity calling blind I decided to go ahead and make the following announcement...."I'm going to go ahead and play this one blind". More laughter ensues and as you can imagine there are 8 players in this pot for two bets pre-flop. The flop comes KQ7 all hearts and everyone looks at me immediately. "WHAT??? I'm not UTG, look at him instead. I told you I'm not looking!" two bets to call when it gets to me, and so I decided to mess with them a bit and raised them.

Now the table comes alive...."YOU WHAT???", "Raise one more, you guys are finally coming to life and it's worth it". 6 callers but no re-raises and we see the turn....K. Again all eyes on me....and by this time I'm getting a bit nervous with the bets I've put in and decide to announce that I will go ahead and look, and what I see is the most beautiful thing I've seen on a table.....Two Black KINGS!!!! Once again there is two bets when I act and purposely act strong (since they would most likely think the strong means weak tell) and say "Raise!"

Two players drop, and one re raise later I call the capped bet......instantly everyone starts getting a bit noisy, and other tables are gathering araound ours. The smartass teacher asks... "so you got the flush, huh??" I answered that I didn't think I did, but I have a great hand, why else would I raise with it blind on the flop?? Everyone makes the call, but I was hoping the Flush to my right would raise...no such luck. The river was a rag, and by this time the room was humming....but surprisingly NO ONE put me on this hand, they were talking about everything else I could have but not my beautiful cowboys. Again two bets by the time it gets to me, and I pop it again but this time everyone just calls and as the last caller puts his bet out I toss the boys on the table and say, "don't bother showing kids, Daddy has Quads". Huge eruption from the entire room and the huge pot was pushed and I also get the $50 jackpot for one of their jewel hands.

Let's just say there was a LOT of conversation on that hand for the next hour or so, I got pretty much no callers for a while and everyone loosened up and started actually betting their hands.

So mission accomplished, they loosened up and I got the nice boost in chips, and a great memory.....