Linton Can’t Win ‘Em All
Pete Linton likes to make his presence felt at the table. He plays a lot of hands and you tangle with him at your peril. But it doesn’t always go his way.
Linton raised to 23,000 from the hi-jack and was raised from the button to 77,000. Linton flicked in his cards and addressed the raiser.
“Nice hand sir. Seventy seven gets the job done in these parts. At least until it doesn’t.” He stated, putting the table on a warning.
The next hand he called a raise of 22,000 in position and with the blinds getting out of the way it was heads up to the flop of
The raiser bet 22,000 and Linton called. The turn brought the and again the bet was 22,000 to Linton. Again he called.
The last card was the the bet again was 22,000.
Linton sighed. He didn’t like that call but it looked too cheap not to call so out went the chips.
His opponent showed for top pair and Linton’s cards arched over the pot and into the muck.