Fish Bluffed

donpeters

Chuck Kelley raises to 4,800 from early position. Darryll Fish places a chip on his card and then thinks for a moment before making the call from middle position.

Both players see the flop of {7-Spades}

. Kelley comes out with a bet of 8,000. Fish thinks more a minute before counting out eight orange chips to make the call. He places them in the middle.

Kelley checks the turn when the {4-Clubs}

is placed on the felt. Fish decides to take action with a 16,000 chip bet. Kelley contemplates for a minute or two before Fish asks what he is thinking.

Kelley responds, "I think you got a big one, like queens or kings. Heck, maybe even aces. I can't beat queens, kings, or aces, but I'm thinking about putting you all in."

After a few more moments go by before Kelley declares that he is all in.

Fish is stunned and spikes a small stack of chips on the table in disgust. The minutes tick by as Fish contemplates the decision for his remaining 40,000 chips.

"If you hadn't have said you can't beat those hands and then moved in, I would've called five days ago," mumbles Fish.

Herbie Montalbano chimes in from his short stack with, "At this rate I might make the money."

Fish studies his opponent before looking at his hand one more time and then tossing it into the middle face up for the fold. "You're either the biggest idiot or the biggest idiot," he says. He shows {Q-Diamonds}