Only 1 hand has a K high straight, so that hand wins.
A wins as straight 8 9 10 J Q K
B wins as straight 9 10 J Q K
[quote=“Caracal, post:13, topic:6594, full:true”]
https://www.replaypoker.com/hand/replay/207577061
[/quote]thats from Yiaz’s thread, but if that isn’t pretty close to my “plausable” description of this thread’s hand… so yeah, it couldda happened that way.
limp’n with pockets, min betting with monsters, that hand has it all.
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Close to having it all but still missing the alien abduction and love story 
BTW - I really don’t have an issue limping small pairs on a table that is limpy to begin with. If you are early with a small pair and pretty sure no one is going to raise after you and that you will be seeing a flop with 6+ other players, its a positive EV play. Flop a set ad you are usually in great shape to double-up through someone with top pair or an over-pair. Whiff the flop and muck your hand to any bet. Of course, when enough people do the exact same thing, you get train wrecks like this one.
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malpua7… You have to use 2 of your hole cards in Omaha, and your final hand is only 5 cards. Player A has a queen high straight, 8 9 10 J Q.
Player B uses his K and 10 to make the only K high straight, which wins.
OK That is true Thanks
Yer welcome.
C but in real life player A
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Excuse me, but there were no particulars about where you are in the hand so it must be assumed you are at the end of the hand and ready for showdown. Lack of info about where you are in play it must be assumed that all players do not have a clue how to play poker.
On showdown which is what you are showing, the straight flush 3-7 of diamonds is the top hand on the board at showdown. Personally the only player who would be there after the flop would be the guy with the KK. Depending on his stack and how ballsy he is, he would bet big and take it down and there would be no turn or river.
But you show a showdown at the end of a hand. Straight flush wins. C
C very short stacked; all in preflop with almost any hand. B is on the button and A knows B loves to squeeze bluff if nobody is showing too much strength, so he just calls hoping to get squeeze bluffed by B, but B just calls. Post flop A plays normal, sensible poker. B looks A in the eye and thinks he has a soul read: Pure bluff. He is wrong, of course, but he trusts his read and calls A down the whole way.
What position is A in? Are you suggesting something like late stage tournament where A and B are checking it down to eliminate the all-in? I can almost see that but it would be really passive of A so I’d like to see position and relative stack sizes.
Can’t get on board with “soul reads”. 2’s are just too weak to flat-call with. They have to make a play at the pot or fold to any bet.
Good to see you spivak - been a while. Hope the studies are going well and hope to see more stats on the Forums from you
That would indeed be too passive for A. I’m going to keep selling this: A only passive move is preflop, and he does it because B is on the button and B loves to squeeze. A is hoping to raise B back when B squeezes, but B figures he wants to flop a set. Post flop A actually makes some bets, but it’s a live table and A is giving off all sorts of physical tells, all screaming “bluff”. B looks at A and thinks “Man, this guy has absolutely nothing. I bet his hand is like . . . the JT of clubs or some such.” so he just keeps calling.
Also, very unlikely I will keep posting on the forums all that much. I don’t PLAY very much poker, so talking about it is even less likely.
https://www.replaypoker.com/hand/replay/311400826/straight-flush-jack-high
I won’t comment other than to say this one is a train wreck as well. At least 1 guy ducked at the end.
Well Warlock, we been talking about bet sizes, pressure, BRmgmt… and I try to take everyones advise… I buy in for 60k, and build up… then a real trainwreck happens ( 7h 8h )
https://www.replaypoker.com/hand/replay/311413095
Now thats a freak’n trainwreck…
Hands down the winner for biggest multi-car pileup I’ve seen in a while. Horribly played hand and gross runout. Thank the moron who followed you with the all-in shove for making sure there would be fatalities though. There is a chance the paired 9 on the turn would have slowed the action down if everyone wasn’t all-in on the flop.
Honestly have no idea what else I can say here. The only consolation I can offer is that there isn’t a player anywhere who would have escaped it the way it played out from your position. You were a huge favorite to take a massive pot there. I wrote about this issue in another thread - the lack of meaningful pre-flop action causes multi-way pots like this. It isn’t poker, its a demolition derby.
As some added commentary - why are people so loathe to put out money pre-flop with monster holdings but willing to play for stacks post-flop when they are far less certain to be ahead? You (generic you, not you as in Sarah) are 100% positive AA is the top hand pre-flop but you limp in with them from the SB and only call the min-raise. You allow 3 other players into the hand to see a flop on the cheap. You have no idea where you are post-flop but you are willing to get your stack in there. Same thing from the Pocket K’s in the BB that made the initial min-raise. Makes no sense to me at all. Would love an answer from someone who understands this phenomenon.
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I tried to size my bet better there, and no way am I folding… thats why its called a bad beat
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You were the only one in the hand who played it with any sense or understanding of the game. For that reason, it wasn’t just the odds that make it a bad beat.
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Those are the hands, that make me play MTT, then… thats the hand that busts me out.
I was doing everything right… bought in for 60k, was up to 300k… then whammo
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That is really unlucky. I have no idea what the guy with J8 was doing, plus the players with AA and KK played really badly, they should both have folded to the raise. Nothing you could have done there (although open limping is not a good idea in general, but I still do it sometimes, so no judgment).
Here’s a very similar hand where I flopped the nuts and lost a 28m pot also to a bunch of 9s, although my opponent didn’t play nearly as badly as yours did (although his turn shove is pretty terrible with the straight draws on board).
I was playing 50k/100k the other day (above my bankroll), and I got AA and raised preflop and got 2 callers. Flop came with a K and two low cards. I bet, 60% pot, got raised 2.5x pot then the other caller doubled that raise, so now I am sitting there with AA and the bet is 7m to me after I raised 700k, so I folded and they went all in and showed K6 and KK for a flopped set. Not sure what the K6 was doing there, but sometimes you have to fold AA even when the board looks good for you.
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