Blinds are at 100/200 and I'm in postion one. Looking down I see myself holding pocket 9's. UTG, just so happens to be my girlfriend, makes a raise to 400 and she didn't have much left after that at all. I'm already putting her on a range of hands that she'd do that on and figure that it's a low pocket or an A5 through to AJ. Then, for some unknown reason I just thought, 'You know what Ondie? You're folding this', and I did.
Another caller and then another person goes all in over the top and the GF calls with only a couple hundred left as does the other person putting them all in and giving the original pusher some change and a small side pot between the two. I don't know what everyone had or all 5 cards but the flop of 10 10 7 with the GF holding A10, and having the hand dominated at that stage made me nod in silent satisfaction. In fact, by the river I would have only had had the 3rd best hand had I have played and lost it to the original all inner.
So a losing hand that I would have normally called or re-raised in that position cost me nothing. Same night I broke QQ and KK with junk on the final table. More ass than class.


