This hand happens at my table while I am playing at Macau. Imagine you are C, how would you feel? Would you have done something differently?

At the $10/20 table, two people calls the big blind including A. B then raises to $150, he has over $2000 in front of him. Two other players call the $150 before C. C holds a pair of fives, and he calls too. C has about $1200 in front of him.

Two players after C calls the $150 bet which makes the pot one of the biggest in the whole night already. A then does something no one expects: he raises to $300. A has about $500 in front of him.

B thinks for a long while then he pushes all in. The other players all fold to C; C folds his cards very reluctantly. The action folds to A who as expected calls the all in.

They open cards: A has a pair of aces, B has ace-jack of hearts.

The flop is K-Q-5; turn is a ten and the river is another ten. B has made his straight and A leaves the table without saying a thing. B wins a lot of money in one hand.

If C has called the all in bet, he would have won the hand with a full house. For the rest of the evening, the whole table has to listen to C complaining about how the hand is played out. C feels that A does not know how to play poker; if A has raised to $150 with his first bet instead of just calling $20 with his pair of aces, B would have just called his $150 just like everyone else, and of course C would be able to get into the hand with $150 and get his full house. Therefore, theoretically C would be the winner if A has not played his hand poorly.

Do you agree with C?