Southern Hospitality
"All right... everyone's involved."
So said Chris, currently dealing at Table 33. His deadpanned delivery didn't quite jibe with how strange his words sounded. We stopped to take a look around...
Sure enough, everyone was involved. All nine players had limped in to see the flop, provoking more than a few chuckles and talk of a "family pot" and it being a "friendly game."
Those first three community cards came 
, and the action checked around to a middle position player who bet 3,300. The player on his left called the bet, then when it folded to Larry Gurney in the cutoff he set his entire stack all in.
It folded back to the flop bettor who hesitated about 15 seconds before calling all in, and the other remaining player folded.
Gurney flipped over 
for a flopped set of tens, while his opponent had likewise flopped a set with 
. The turn was the 
and the river the 
, and Gurney won the pot while knocking out an opponent.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given that everyone had kept their hole cards to see the flop, subsequent table talk revealed all of the other possible hands that would have been made had everyone continued to stay in the hand, including one player who tossed his 
, a couple who would have made straights, and another who would have made a flush.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
108,000
37,000
|
37,000 |