Interesting hand with Antonio, Hanging with a Bloodhound

I played in a cash game yesterday at the Bellagio with $25-50 blinds and a $100 ante on the big blind. The ante creates a lot more action and makes the game play like a $50-100 game. I had Antonio Esfandiari on my right, who was playing 4 out of 5 hands and at showdown turning over hands like J 6. We played an interesting hand, I was in the bog blind and there was 1 limper, Antonio raises to $350 from the small blind and I call with 6 8, as does the limper. The flop comes 6 8 K and Antonio checks. I bet $1,000 into a $1,150 pot. The original limper folds and Antonio raises to $2,200. I tank for 30 seconds and move all in for $10,000 on top of his raise. Antonio starts asking me what I have. He say's I know you have 7 9 of spades and a monster draw and I'm ahead. No way you have two pair. So he calls and we agree to run it twice. To my surprise he shows A J! Of course the first time we run it comes Q 10, the second time I hold and we chop the pot.

After the hand was over I asked him what his thought process was, he said based on pot odds he had to call if I had 7 9, and he would bet me any amount on that. There was $7,550 in the pot, and with my 10k raise $17,550, so 1.75 to 1. I ran the odds of the hand, if I did have 79, and it was 64% to 36%, and that's with me rounding in his favor, so I should have taken his bet. He got lucky twice. I ran the odds of the hand as it actually was, and it was 91% to 9% both on the flop and turn.

I left after the hand, I had to get to Jen Harmon's animal charity event, and I got to walk the red carpet with a cool bloodhound, which was a much more enjoyable experience. Don't get me wrong, I am good friends with Antonio and like him in the game, and I loved the call with ace high, but why did he have to get there? Thank god I agreed to run it twice, I would have been sick otherwise.