I was sure pleased when I flopped a flush, and couldn’t believe it when it improved to a royal.
lol
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Royal flushes are overrated!
They are unbeatable but are so rare that they hardly ever affect the result of a game.
The most exciting result is when a Royal Flush beats quads, but when this happens the possibility of a Royal Flush is always evident, so there is not the element of total surprise, though no one with quads will ever be bluffed off the pot by another player repping a Royal.
In most hands won by the Royal Flush, the nut flush would have done the job just as well.
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It’s been over a week since I had a ridiculous hand to post, and today I have four (so far)
Every hand I’ve raised preflop has been a disaster for me. Every time I’ve had AA has been a disaster for me. The other times I’ve been knocked out of a game, it’s been by AA or KK.
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Hand #518441447 · Replay Poker - 3-up, I’m on AA, flop is 558. I don’t think my opponent is on a 5, so I shove, they call. They have an 8, Turn is an 8, they have 88855, and a bigger stack than me. Game over.
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Hand #518466949 · Replay Poker - Same hand, same opponent, same outcome. AA vs QQ, river Q to KO me again.
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Hand #518474545 · Replay Poker - KQs, played right into AA. FML.
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Hand #518477987 · Replay Poker - KJs UTG, flopped top pair, crushed by KK, blocked by JT, here’s why early position is a total disaster. Not that I wouldn’t have played for a flop regardless. Couldn’t bet my way out of it.
Seriously, the only thing that happens when I bet preflop is that I lose chips faster.
What happens, especially in the lower entry games is that if a player limps in with, say, Q T suited, they want to see a flop. Now if you raise to 100BB with AA, they still want to see a flop,and they are going to see a flop, goddamit, even if it costs them all their chips. Sometimes they win, through sheer force of numbers.
What I prefer to do with AK, especially early in tournaments is to limp in, and then if the flop hits me hard I can put them all in, and they will still want to see a turn and a river even when drawing dead. In some ways I would rather raise with a bluff, because it is easy to throw it away if it backfires.
If a raise will not make anyone fold, then the only purpose of the raise is to make the pot bigger, which increases everyone’s chance of becoming pot committed and of busting out.
The strength of AK is that it cannot be dominated except by AA, so it is a good hand to have in a one on one, situation, where it wins if both hands miss, but it does not play as well in multiway pots where Aces may block each other and let the middle pairs and straights take control. However, when limped, it comes as a complete surprise to the opponent, especially the opponent with top pair, mediocre kicker.
In games where players will call anything from behind, or don’t even have a clue what you might hold, it is best to avoid getting all in against bigger stacks unless you are shoving preflop.
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I don’t know what you’re giving me advice for Mekon, the rules of poker clearly state that any hand I open will outcome poorly. It’s in an 18th century Hoyle’s.
Look, here’s me with AKo. Early position, sure, and AK is a *&(@#& hand no matter where you hold it, when you’re me. It always misses the board. But I’m hip to it, and get out after the big raise on the Turn. Ha ha to Mr 666 though, getting killed by a river Flush.
Just more typical ridiculous BS hands for me to lose with.
OMG would you look at this hand.
I’m dealt A9o, and am thinking of trying to steal the BB if it comes around to me with no action. But a player ahead of me shoves. I consider calling, but opt not to. BB does call, they have QQ, flop the set, and KO Mr Shove For No Reason on J5o .
- BB. Flop OESD. Shove fest ensues. I bow out. I fold the winner.
This is why i can’t cash in MMTs very often. i must have threw away 15 hands, waiting for this hand, or something close. V is on the button, K2s, with a small stack advantage. Looking back, i can see i should have went in preflop, but I don’t think it would have made much difference.
I’m beginning to believe it’s true. the one’s who do well with MMTs are the best at trying not to lose
I have AA
Hand #518576020 · Replay Poker.
just looked at it again. need to learn from this one…
The ones trying not to lose do the poorest in tournaments. This conclusion is sometimes hard to extrapolate in Replay tournaments because there are so many playing “not to lose”.
As for this hand there isn’t really any way to misplay it. You’re being results oriented, meaning if you took exactly the same line and V turned over KQ you probably wouldn’t have posted this. There is nothing to learn from this. V should actually be shoving hands as strong as K2 suited from his spot with 4.5 bb’s. Stacks are so short though I don’t thing it can be horrible to limp call it off with K high though shoving is going to be way more profitable.
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SSSH! That is the secret sauce. Keep the recipe to yourself.
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Just because I raised KK. That’s the ONLY reason.
First post ITT that isn’t a comment/reply to another.
4 hands prior to this one we had this nice little gem where JJ let us punish them.
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First one, sick hand, but no action ;(
The JJ one, just what the hell. I’ve seen Marji sometimes, don’t know if she dropped down to 1000th, but anyway, so poorly played. No idea what she was thinking. Nice pot for you though 
She calls off way too light and she slow plays big hands too often. Plus she gets outside of her bank roll too far.
Slow-play against dayman, what a mistake right ? Yeah, but this almost not slow-playing but more not-valuing…
Who does that right ? Only idiots…
P.S. (Joke)
I literally laughed out loud when I read this! I’m glad I wasn’t drinking coffee over my computer. 
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Complete blunder at a critical juncture.
I’m doing really well, in the middle of the top 10 on the leaderboard in the Badonk’s Foals Wednesday night tournament, when I flop what looks like a promising hand:
KJ, BB, I limp to a two pair flop, with an Ace over me. I think about betting hard and taking the hand here, but I check to see if someone can get sucked in. Two players in the hand with me, the next one min-bets, is called, I call. Turn is a Ten, I am already planning on betting pot here and don’t really see the Ten, and as soon as I bet, I know I’m dead.
Both players across the table from me are holding Queens, and just hit nut straight. Now I’m dead unless the river is another K or Jack, or a Queen, so I have 4 outs to win, another two to chop, or I’m going to be cut down.
I get cut down.
Complete lapse of attention at the absolute most critical moment in the game and I blew what was a promising run.
Naturally I come unhinged, and shove the next three hands. I have a decent stack, about 3800 left, so it’s not like anyone’s going to be calling here, unless they’re holding a pair. The tournament points are too important.
96o, K2s, AJo, all for min-wins.
But of course eventually someone will be dealt pocket 3s and then they’ll #@%%ing call and that’ll be when I blank the board with AK.
So after taking blinds in 3 hands, which is substantial, I chill out and prepare to settle in and wait a long time for a big pair of my own to go for a big pot with.
THE VERY NEXT HAND I am dealt AA. Since I just shoved like 3x in a row, it’s a good bet that if I shove again here, either I’ll get 4 calls, or else I’ll just steal the blinds again. I want more than that for my Aces, so I just limp, planning to slow play and destroy, unless the flop ends up looking like a disaster for me.
Flop is Kc9hJh, I don’t want to see another heart on the board. Turn is the 8d, I’m now worried about straights, so I shove, and get a call.
And lose to a straight. Made on the river. KQ in my opponent’s hand, they would likely have called anyway all the way with top pair on the board, and I could have knocked them out and gotten back up to 12000 chips, but it’s yet another suck-out for the villain.
Back down to 2000 chips, I just give up and shove the next hand, of course no one’s respecting it, I get called by A5, who makes two pairs, while I only make a pair of 9s on my way out.
Every time I raised with big paint cards I lost half my stack or more, and every hand I played limping and made something with, I made a big score. Wheel straight, Nut flush.
Why do people raise? Why do people open? It never does me any good anymore. It’s such a sick string of blank boards and suckouts for me any time I put a lot of chips in early. The only hand I can win with anymore is the flopped nuts.
Gotta mix the good raises with bluffs. Sometimes you raise with nothing much and get a caller in the blinds, flop comes Ace high, BB checks. He is probably going to bet big if he has an Ace, and has a lot of guts to slow play that. You make a nice continuation bet, and he sees, yes, that you have an Ace, and he folds. You pick up a nice gain on the pot of 3 1/2 big blinds, and that gets you through another 2 rounds of play. If you can’t win pots with bluffs, you will rarely win tournaments.
In this hand I had AK. They all folded, and I would have liked the BB to call, but the player on my right was punished for limping and that might pay off for me in the future. In fact a few hands later she was knocked out.
With my raise the remaining players were happy to fold, the BB didn’t have the guts for a fight, or more likely no cards, and the early limper had regrets and folded. This was in fact the last pot I won in the tournament, but I got into the prize money and won 580,000 chips.
In the late stages of a tournament, players will respect your raises. Early on they don’t care and will call with anything just hoping to get hit hard by the flop. So in the early stages of a tournament it can be more profitable to try to see pots cheaply, sneak in with monsters, and forget about continuation bets and most bluffs.