Big Pot!

Hand I played a little while back at Oceans-11.

20/40 full ring game. Bunch of bad players. Fish1 opens UTG+1, UTG+2 [tighty] 3-bets, UTG+3 [loose aggro/maniac] 4-bets, I call on the button with 9c8c, SB [Fish2] calls, BB folds, everyone calls. 4-bets 5-way action. [21 SB]

Flop comes Kc Th 7c. Bingo. I currently have 9 high however, if you are an astute reader, you will have noticed that I have flopped the mother of all draws, with an open-ender and a flush draw, and I am more than willing to shovel many bets into this pot.

Action goes:
Fish2 : check
Fish1 : check
Tighty : bet
Maniac : raise
Me : 3-bet
Fish2 : cold-call 3
Fish1 : cold-call 3
Tighty : cap

all call. [41 SB]

Turn is 8s. The astute reader now realizes that I now have a pair, plus all my draws, but clearly I am behind, and tighty likely has AA with Ac, AK with Ac, KK, or TT. Maniac probably has AA, AK, AT (Ac Tc very possible),KT, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, or 77. Other fish, likely draws such as QJ, AJ, AQ, Kx, Tx, or other weird possibilities.

Action goes:
Fish2 : check
Fish1 : check
Tighty : bets
Maniac : raises all in to 13 chips
me : call
Fish1 : call
Fish2 : call
Tighty : 3-bets
me : call
Fish2 : call
Fish1 : call

[Main pot = 57.25 SB, Side Pot = 8 SB]

River is the 6c. The astute reader now realizes that I have hit both my draws and would have preferred the 6h, 6s, or 6d, as then I would have the likely stone-cold nuts, but this will have to do. Final board reads [Kc Th 7c 8s 6c]

Action goes:
Fish2 : check (no flush)
Fish1 : check (no flush)
Tighty : bets (no way he has a flush)
Maniac : all-in, so can't do anything (might have a bigger flush)
me : raise
Fish2 : folds
Fish1 : folds
Tighty : calls

Final Pot Sizes, Main Pot = 57.25 SB ($1145), Side Pot = 16 SB ($320). I table the winner of course, and get shipped both pots. Tighty flashes a set of kings, and maniac angrily throws his red aces into the muck. I collect the huge pot $1465, of which $1120 are my winnings from the hand or over 2 racks of red birds. So from my initial preflop investment of $80, I got a huge return even though this is probably a bad call from a purely expected value perspective, but given the table dynamics and the players, I knew that if I hit a big hand, that I would get plenty of action, and it worked out just perfectly.