Epic no chop story

I went up to Red Rock last night and played in the 2/5 game for a couple hours.  Game was decent.  I played one hand that was pretty interesting.

Folds around to the small blind, I'm in the big blind.  Guy asks if I want to chop.  I say I always play.  I've played with this guy before and he has given me shit about not chopping, although I never got in a situation where I didn't chop with him specifically.  He gets grumpy about it and calls. 

I look down at Q-Q.  Perfect situation, not chopping here.  :-)  So I raise it to 20 total. 

He snap-shoves on me for like $430!!!!

I just sit back in my chair and am like whoa... I did not expect to be in this situation.  I had about $530 in front of me so I had him covered.  As a general rule I do NOT want to put a ton in preflop with Q-Q.  I mean Q-Q is a hand where if I raise to 20 and someone raises me to 60, I'm either set mining or sometimes even folding.  I just don't like to F around with Q-Q (although maybe this is a weak spot in my game).

Kenna James at Red Rock 2/5 NL

Anyway, I have played with this guy a bit and have heard good people talk about how he is good for the game and it sounds like he's not a very good player.  And I've seen him go crazy in some hands.  So adding that info together with the fact that I know this guy is pissed off that I don't chop, I decided to call.

So I call and he says good call, and that he was going to do that with any 2 cards basically to teach me a lesson because he thinks it's disrespectful to casual players to not chop and blah blah blah, and he flips up the 10-9 offsuit!  Sick spot.

Flop : J-9-4.  Turn, 10, gross, but at least I have a ton of outs (K, Q, J, 8, 4).  16 outs, pretty damn good draw to win still.  River, brick.  So I ship this guy a $850 pot.

 That was pretty gross.  I didn't sweat it though, just rebuy casually.  I think I broke the guy's brain, he obviously 100% didn't expect that to work out and even though that he won the pot, I mentally owned him at that point and I think I'll have some kind of magic mental control over that guy for a while.  He went on some weird tilt after winning, and eventually left the game.  He kept complaining that I was a "professional" and obviously could not handle my mad skillz at the table.  :-)  Also I think he got frustrated when I raised with 6-4 suited, checked to the river, I hit a 6 and check-called him when he bet with 9 high.

Later I got some of it back.  Bunch of people limp and I raise to 20 on the button with 6-6.  Flop is sick, K-6-3 rainbow.  Does not get better than that.  Checks to me, $50, 1 caller.  Turn is the worst card in the deck, 7.  Makes the only draw.  He checks, I bet $75, he calls.  So I think I'm probably OK now.  River is a 2, great card.  He checks, I bet $200, he calls.  Said he had 2 pair.  So I did get some money back.

I ended up losing $320, but it was a ton better than losing the $600 I was down at one point.  Pretty good night considering the beat I took, and also that besides the set I didn't have any other really good hands to play.