Where you left your keys ...Rick's Cafe Americain

Ten sitting at the table.  I’m the Big Blind , and I get dealt A♣ K♥.  Not bad.  These guys love to call with garbage before the flop.  I post the blind ($50).  The guy to my left folds, but the next guy raises to $275.  Folds all the way back around to the dealer, who calls.  Small Blind folds, and I re-raise to $500.  They both call.

Here comes the flop: K♠ A♠ J♦.  I figure the dealer could have Q 10, so I check.  The raiser from the first round bets $475, and dealer calls.  I figure if the dealer had Q 10 he would have raised, so I figure to knock him out if he’s drawing, and if he ain’t, well, I figure the likely worst outcome for me at this point is a three-way tie.  I gotta stop figurin’. 

I go all in ($2000).  They both call, and here’s what I’m up against:  Raiser has, as I suspected, A K.  They’re both ♦s, but that’s not much of an advantage here.  Caller has Q♦ 7♠.  He should have folded.  No, really, he should have folded before the flop, the little $#!%. 

Turn: 2♠.  No frush for my friend, no 10 for the $#!%.  I’m salivating.

And then it happens: 10♣.

Thanks and good night folks, I had a lovely time.

*all $’s referred to in this grovel were “play money” $’s.  No bankrolls were harmed during the playing of this hand.  But it made a better story before you knew that, didn’t it?