In a recent tournament, I found myself nearing the bubble. Our table had not broken all day and as luck would have it, it was a pretty decent one: a couple of novice players, a couple of real tight players and the rest were pros. During play, we got into a discussion regarding playing A-K pre-flop. Coincidentally, six players who had been eliminated at our table had called all-in bets pre-flop with A-K – and lost. Then, when the seventh guy got knocked out in exactly the same fashion, the whole table broke out in laughter.

On the next hand, I picked up Q-Q on the big blind.