"Are You Serious?!"

We join a loony pot on the flop with four-handed action. The first three cards were spread out in the middle of the table, reading



The turn came the


"Two pair is good," said someone at the table.
"I don't got two pair. I got one pair," said Negreanu, with a stalemate developing as nobody would show their cards for a few seconds. Finally, Van Alstyne tabled








Negreanu stood all the way up on his chair to get a better look. "WOW!" he yelled. "Are you serious?!"
They were serious. Negreanu's dry pair of kings was somehow good enough to scoop a monster pot, pushing him all the way back up to 78,000. Negreanu had 4,700 just minutes ago, seemingly with one foot out the door.
Welcome back to the game, Kid.