There was a hand I had at the casino tonight that I've been thinking about. Mostly because after the hand everyone told me I was nuts.

A new guy sits down at the table and starts playing wild. I mean really wild. His first hand: Seat 5 raises preflop 3xBB, wild guy reraises 6xBB, Seat 5 pushes all in for 33XBB, wild guy CALLS. HE CALLS WITH K6s.

The next two hands he goes all in preflop and get no callers. Couple of hands later I reraise him with AKo, check to him when I flop an Ace, and take his stack. He buys in again and goes on a rampage. He had no standard preflop raise, he would just grab a big ass stack of chips and throw it in. Usually about 15-25xBB.

He was no dummy. He was just crazy. And probably rich. I think he was waiting for a seat at a higher stakes table. He was drinking and having a good time.

So anyway, he outdraws and outbluffs the guy next to him and takes about $400 from him in twenty minutes. The guy next to him used to be tight, but he keeps trying to win his money back from this maniac. He can't. Now he's on tilt.

So here's the hand.

Wild guy has around $400 in chips.
Tilt guy has around $200.
I have $520.

Wild guy bets $60 preflop UTG.
Tilt guy raises him to $120 total.

I'm in the small blind and have AKs. I fold.

I'm quite sure that I had the best hand. But I didn't want to call $120. And I knew if I pushed all in Wild Guy would probably call. I knew that regardless of what I flopped, Wild Guy would probably push. To make matters worse, Tilt Guy gets to draw for free. It was late. I was happy with my money. I didn't want to take the chance. Was I a wussy?

For anyone interested:

Tilt Guy had K7o.
Wild Guy had ATo and hit a T on the turn winning the hand. No AK came up. However, I was really surprised to see Wild Guy only CALL the $60 raise from tilt guy rather than put Tilt Guy all-in for the last $80. Wild Guy also checked the flop when he missed. Perhaps he would have folded preflop if I pushed.

Oh by the way, this was really weird and funny. On the turn when Wild Guy hit the T, he checked. Tilt Guy FLIPPED OVER HIS CARDS and showed his King high and THEN went all in. LOL. That was crazy.