*** Results ***
Hero folds. Then for reasons I can't imagine, he shows his hand to the table. That is way out of character - Hero never, ever shows his cards.
I was dumbfounded at someone flopping top two pair and then taking a check/call, check/fold line followed by a proud tabling of the folded hand. The rest of the table perked up, laughed at Hero and no doubt mostly resolved to fire bluffs at Hero for the rest of the year.
Villain Strange held A
Q
. Cougar showed the fourth ace but not his side card.
For what it is worth, Strange wasn't putting another chip in the pot. If Hero takes any form of a check/raise or leads out on the river, then Strange is done with the hand.
And for the rest of the story - - - about two hours earlier, Strange made a button raise with A7o and ended up winning unimproved at showdown. Hero took offence at the lax standards noting that "no good player would raise a piece of crap like that". Thus the preflop comment by Hero about him having a better hand than Villain Strange.
Strange continues to insist to Hero that it was a good fold -=- DrStrange