Burke's Peerless

A gargantuan pot was brewing with the board reading A 8 8 A J. Anthony Ivison checked from the small blind and J. Burke bet 5k into a pot of around 15k. Ivison shrugged, muttered something aboutf being priced in, and called off about 1/3 of his stack with black queens. Burke flipped over A 9 and scooped a fat one. Ivision shook his head, clearly disgusted that Burked had stayed in with such a mediocre holding.