Can you believe he called me with Jack high?

Very solid, if not up and down (mostly up) weekend of poker playing this weekend. Finished 45th out of 2200+ people in the Friday night Stars $1 rebuy tourney - 12th place headed into final hand, tangled with 3rd place chipper. Flop 2 pair on A-J-4 board (A-J), donk comes over the top of my check-raise with A-K...hits K on river, and I go from having a chance to make a really deep run to out - +$24 (minus costs and add-on - no rebuy required). Really, not a hard tourney to accumulate chips in the rebuy level - just sit back, wait for you big hands, push them hard, and there are plenty of idiots to pay you off.

Last night, this hand came up - I don't even think I cashed in this SnG, but the hand is just great to look at:

PokerStars Game #35682070277: Tournament #214847210, $3.00+$0.40 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2009/11/22 0:19:58 ET
Table '214847210 1' 10-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: RockDawgy (1440 in chips)
Seat 2: AAK27 (2100 in chips)
Seat 3: BKrywko1 (1440 in chips)
Seat 4: fgallo86 (1480 in chips)
Seat 5: feuerabend (1080 in chips)
Seat 6: Btterfly00 (1480 in chips)
Seat 7: AA-KK-Man (1500 in chips)
Seat 8: Gilbert85 (1500 in chips)
Seat 9: CheCop24 (1500 in chips)
Seat 10: snoofy07 (1480 in chips)
fgallo86: posts small blind 10
feuerabend: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BKrywko1 [Jd Th]
Btterfly00: folds
AA-KK-Man: folds
Gilbert85: calls 20
CheCop24: folds
snoofy07: calls 20
RockDawgy: folds
AAK27: calls 20
BKrywko1: calls 20
fgallo86: folds
feuerabend: raises 20 to 40
Gilbert85: calls 20
snoofy07: calls 20
AAK27: calls 20
BKrywko1: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [7d Tc Ts]
feuerabend: bets 20
Gilbert85: folds
snoofy07: folds
AAK27: folds
BKrywko1: calls 20
*** TURN *** [7d Tc Ts] [7c]
feuerabend: checks
BKrywko1: checks
*** RIVER *** [7d Tc Ts 7c] [3c]
feuerabend: bets 20
BKrywko1: raises 60 to 80
feuerabend: calls 60
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BKrywko1: shows [Jd Th] (a full house, Tens full of Sevens)
feuerabend: mucks hand
BKrywko1 collected 410 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 410 | Rake 0
Board [7d Tc Ts 7c 3c]
Seat 1: RockDawgy folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: AAK27 folded on the Flop
Seat 3: BKrywko1 (button) showed [Jd Th] and won (410) with a full house, Tens full of Sevens
Seat 4: fgallo86 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: feuerabend (big blind) mucked [Jc 6d]
Seat 6: Btterfly00 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: AA-KK-Man folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Gilbert85 folded on the Flop
Seat 9: CheCop24 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 10: snoofy07 folded on the Flop

Of course, one can't mention the title phrase without bringing up this classic from 2004 - Ellix Powers, everyone (go to the 4 minute mark, and enjoy!)

Sick 2009 WSOP hand

All you need to watch is the first minute of this video to see how sick this hand is pre-flop - enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ay_52F_Zbg&feature=related