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[QUOTE="doops, post: 1515317, member: 59356"]
I have 7 Busted-a-pro Ts.  Just have to get lucky when they have a hand. :P
 
Once, at Foxwoods, a pro sat down at the FLHE table I was at.  I wasn't all that familiar with pros at that point -- he was tall, dark and nice looking.  Mighta been Phil Gordon, but not sure. The guy next to me whispered that he's a famous pro.  Everyone at the table got kinda stiff.  Anxious.  Why's he sitting down [I]here[/I]???  What, he wants to run over our friendly little lowest-limit table?
 
Anyway, first hand he plays, he limps in along with a batch of us.  Kinda the norm for the table.  Then, post flop, he bets from early position (I was not aware of position play then -- it was years ago --and that meant absolutely nothing to me) and everyone folds around to me in late position. Fold, fold, fold.  I raise it up. What did I have?, you ask.  Not a heck of a lot.  2nd pair and a straight draw, if I remember right.  Just wanted to see what he'd do if I reraised, plus I was peeved that everybody was just folding to him.  I mean, it was a no foldem table up til then.  Just by sitting down, he changed things.
 
Man, he put on this huge act.  Stared me down, felt like forever.  Asked if I had a set (Uh, no, I thought. Uh oh.  What did I do? Do I need a set to beat his hand?)  Asked some more questions.  I grinned. 
 
"If I fold, will you show?" he said.   
 
"Well....maybe." (Hot damn, I thought.  Is he really gonna fold to my crap?) He kept staring.  I tried not to twitch. This went on for minutes. It was awkward.  He folded.  I showed (with some embarassment.)  Quite the show, really.
 
OK, I won the hand.  But, you know, the joke was on me.  See, up til then, everyone thought I played tighter than I actually did, since they'd only seen the hands where I had monsters.  I don't think I won another hand for an hour.  Well, not until I got another monster....
 
What I learned:  Do [I]not[/I] show your hand if you don't have to.  And don't muck around with pros -- they do head games [I]really[/I] well.
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