Message Board : Funny bad beat sidebar story

This happened just prior to the monster flop hand I posted about just now. The game is juicy and I’ve got about 150 BB in front of me.

There’s a tight player to my immediate left and a live one two to my left. I
have learned that a preflop raise to $7 or $8 rarely gets much respect;
one has to raise to $10+ to get anyone’s attention and possibly thin
the field.

On the button, I looked down on KQ of spades. There have been a couple of limpers ahead of me, so I decide to raise to $11 to build a pot with position, initiative, and the potential to steal with a c-bet if I whiff the flop. As per SPR, I’m committed if I connect with the flop unless I’m playing against one of the deep stacks at the table. Both blinds call, but they both have short stacks, and two other loose players decide to call (at least they have
better position and deeper stacks). Flop comes down a beautiful AKK, and at this point
I’m praying someone is willing to go to war with top pair.

It gets checked around to me, and I bet $10. The small blind calls, and
then the big blind decides to check-raise his last $51 (making it $41
to go for me). I flat-call, hoping to build a side pot with the BB, but
he mucks ace-ten faceup.

The big blind reluctantly flips over ace-six. The table goes nuts when he spikes the case ace on the river.
I politely tap the table and say "nice hand, sir" and hope to play more
pots with the fish; he looked pretty mortified at his own fishy play.
Sadly, he busted out within three orbits as my chips found their way to
other players.

Fortunately for me, it didn’t ruin my session. I
left up $400 after 3 hours of play, but I sure would’ve liked that
extra pot worth $170.