Monday Night fun at a new venue

Since Dino's decided not to have its Monday tournament this week, I headed over to Hazel Park Raceway to play in their Monday freeroll w/rebuys tournament. Stevo was working as a dealer there, and it was good to talk to him for a bit before the action got underway.

First table had a couple of signups who never showed, and an interesting cast of characters. I took down a few small pots by simply betting after the flop with snow, and I had a good read on the table early. Got to lob my first insult at some young kid sometime during the second level when I raised in the small blind to 300 (50-100 blinds)...kid does a "what the hell" call, and then nearly jumps out of his seats when two aces come out on the flop.

I looked at the kid, shook my head and laughed, said "check", and then he bets out 800...all the time his hands shaking, chips fumbling around...no tell there, eh? I told him that he liked that flop too much for my liking, flipped over my pocket kings face-up, and then called him an idiot for overbetting the pot so much with a monster hand (Ace-jack, in his). Kid tried to argue that he should have only bet 200 or so, and string me along, but I told him that I wasn't sticking around for only 2 outs no matter what the price - he didn't play it bad by betting, but there are reasons why we look at reactions to flop for help here.

2 brutal hands killed - 1 right before rebuy period, and one shortly after. Hand 1 - 10-9 in small blind, 2 limpers, no raisers...easy call getting 8-1 on my money. Flop comes 10-10-8, 2 clubs. UTG goes all-in immediately, Tom (Dino's veteran) calls, I call (going all-in), and these are the hands:

UTG: 4-4
Tom: J-7 clubs
Me: 10-9 - trips

Club hits on turn, 4 on river wins it for UTG, and I rebuy. Get my 3000 chips add-on a hand or 2 later, then run into another brutal hand at end of 200-400 level:

Old guy to right of me raises to 1200 (1/3 of his chips), I look down and see 10-10, reraise all-in for 3400. Old guy says that he doesn't like the hand he has, but is "pot-committed" (really? Most people have no clue what "pot-committed" or "pot odds" actually means), I say, "It's good to know that I'm way ahead of you, at least", and he actually says, "Hey, it's suited...I have to call", and turns over A-10 hearts, yes! 2 hearts on flop, 3rd on turn gives him the flush, and I'm out. Oh well, much fun was had - will play again very soon.