Phillips Gets Paid, Could Have Used a (Re-)Raise
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An unknown player opened to 2,500 from the button, and Carter Phillips called in the small blind.
They were the only two players to see a flop of 
, and Phillips checked. The raiser continued out with 3,500 chips, and Phillips popped it up to 8,500 straight. His opponent called the check-raise, and Phillips fired 14,000 on the 
turn. The call came once again, and the 
filled out the board on fifth street.
"How much you got?" Phillips asked, craning his neck. "About forty?" His opponent nodded, and Phillips pushed in a big tower of covering high-denomination chips. The man with the decision tanked for maybe 90 seconds and finally folded.
The two players and Greg Mueller had a quick chat about the hand afterwards, and the folding player said that he'd held pocket kings.
"You had pocket kings?!" Phillips said, the look on his face suddenly souring. "I had aces." More discussion followed, and Phillips was growing more and more frustrated. Mueller eventually said, "Wow, all you had to do was reraise preflop."
Phillips finished the conversation: "You really had kings? I f***ing suck at poker."
He must be doing something right; Phillips is back up to about 142,000.