Don't ever let this happen to you.

[ChezJ]

Read and learn from my mistake.

I sat down at a juicy $1/$2 NL game at the Taj. This fishfest was 7-9 handed to every flop with all-ins left and right on TP or worse. PF raises to $17 were getting called multiway.

Within the first half hour, I got AA in the BB vs maybe 6 limpers and raised to $20. To my surprise, everyone folded except the maniac in the SB who was sitting on $400 after doubling up twice in the last 10 minutes.

Maniac puts his hands on his huge stack and threatens to push. Then he says, "Let's gamble!"

I instantly say, "I CALL."

He stops and looks at me. "You call if I go all in?"

I say, "Yeah."

He thinks a beat, then says, "In that case, I fold," and says he had KK.

OMG WTF, AUGH!! I took his "Let's gamble" to be a declaration of intent, but technically it wasn't so I couldn't hold him to it. Had I simply waited a few seconds for him to say "All in" or move his chips forward, I would have surely doubled up on that hand.

Me and my big mouth cost me $200+... STUPID STUPID STUPID.

ChezJ