In this battle-of-the-blinds hand, some preflop action had built up a modest-sized pot when the flop came . Ron Kirk -- who probably has about twenty years or more on most of his tablemates -- checked from the small blind, his opponent bet 5,000 from the big blind, then Kirk check-raised him to 22,000. The BB quickly folded.
"He was in every hand yesterday," said a player from across the table as the bespectacled Kirk wordlessly dragged the pot. "He doesn't play standard old guy poker."