The Pirate Sniffs Out The Treasure

Here is one of the fun ones to watch. The Pirate is in early position in our small stakes game and makes a raise to $4 with AK. There is a caller on the button and the blinds fold. On the flop of Q,8,6 it goes check check.
The turn is another 8 and our swashbuckler makes an $11 bet and gets called having his opponent covered whose remaining stack is $18.
The river is a deuce and The Pirate checks. Our button shoves his remaining chips in the middle.
It's not long before the call is made and the button says ….


nice call. When he sees what The Pirate turns over, he just buries his head in shame. The only things he can muster are "..how can you make that call?"
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