So I sit down at a one table tournament on pokerstars. Very first hand I’m dealt AJ unsuited. I raise to 3 times the big blind, get 3 callers.
The flop comes down JT7, all clubs (I have no clubs).
I bet $500 (about a third of my stack) into a $300 pot to scare off the flush draw. I get one caller.
The turn is an 8 (not a club).
I bet $300. He calls.
The river is a 9 (not a club). So there’s a straight on the board.
I check, he bets $300, I call figuring it will be a split pot.
He has AQ, neither one of them a club. So he called a $500 bet with an inside straight draw, then hit a runner-runner straight. I was favored 83-17 post-flop.
So two hands later, I get AK, go all in, get one caller. He has A6 suited. He hits his flush and beats me.
I feel the pain, but there is a solution. Join me in playing 7 card stud High/Low. You will be sucked out far less if you learn to play it correctly, and even when you are sucked out it will only mean that your opponent won half the pot instead of the whole pot that you expected. I still like me some Hold Em, but it is nice to have anothe game to turn to.
Ugh. Last weekend.
I have pocket kings. Flop comes 5,7,T rainbow. I put in the third bet, guy came behind me with the fourth. I’m thinking I have it all down the line, because he never raises, so my kings HAVE to be good, right? What’s he have? 5/7 offsuit… :rolleyes:
Yeah, where are these idiots when you catch a straight flush or four of a kind? Happened to me twice so of course no one had anything and fucking folded. :mad:
One good story: we were playing an Omaha Hold’em tourney a couple of weeks ago. I was out of the hand. One buddy catches a straight flush, another has an Ace high flush (what he figured was the nut). First buddy bets a decent amount, second buddy raises, first buddy puts him all in and second buddy calls. Needless to say, second buddy was in for a surprise. The kind of hand you dream about.
Did you raise pre-flop? Because the danger with not doing so when you have a good hand is that someone will get to see the flop cheap (or free, if they’re in the big blind) and will get lucky. Of course, with KK in your hand it’s always tempting to try and suck people out for lots of money, but it seems to me that it’s often better to at least offer a medium-sized pre-flop raise to get rid of a few people. Even with KK, if you’ve got four of five people seeing the flop with you, the chances are pretty good that one of them will catch a hand.
I was playing a freeroll tourney yesterday, and i got dealt KQ offsuit in late position. I called a small pre-flop raise, and four of us saw the flop.
The flop came Kc Qc 10c.
So, i’ve got two pair, but now i really have to worry about a flush. The first guy puts in a medium bet, second guy calls, third guy drops out. I think about a making a big raise and gambling on the fact that no-one’s made a flush, but i decide discretion is the better part of valor. But i figure it’s worth calling to see if i can make my full house.
Turn comes 9c.
So, now there’s four cards to a flush and, in fact, four cards to a straight flush. First position bets, second position raises, and by now it’s very clear to me that two-pair isn’t going to win this hand, and i’m not willing to get sucked out on a 9-1 full-house draw, so i fold.
So the bet is back around to the first position, who raises all in. Second position folds, and first position wins the pot.
He shows us his hand: Ac Jc.
He had a royal flush ofter the flop, and i was counting my blessings that i had decided against the big raise.
I had raised double the big blind (6/12 game), and was confident with that. Turn was 9d, and again all he did was call. Then I came out strong after the river (2d) with a triple bet, since I had top pair beat. I figured he was trying to suck a straight on the river. He just called, didn’t re-raise.
He didn’t change his style up at all all night, pretty even player. I’d say semi conservative.
All you can do is console yourself with the fact that, if he keeps calling your pre-flop raises while holding 5-7os, then in the long run you’ll probably take lots of his money away from him.
Just remember that if you’re a good player, for every bad beat you take, there are several times when people are drawing to bad beats against you and don’t hit them.
No, it probably doesn’t make you feel any better, especially since (in my experience) the bad beats tend to come in big clusters. But I still feel like my game went up a notch when I realized that idiots who get lucky sometimes are the reason the game is profitable, and it is just as important for them to be occasionally lucky as it is for them to be idiots.
That said, bitching about bad beats is not only therapeutic, but it’s a time-honored tradition. Check out www.riveredagain.com.
Stop yer bitching. These are the same people who pay you in the long run. Also, why play Pokerstars? Those are the toughest games on the internet. Move on over to Party or, even better, Pacific. Game selection is 90% of high end poker.
I feel your pain. Yesterday in a multi at 150/300 blinds I get AK unsuited. Raise to 2xBB, two callers. Flop is AJh3s (I have no hearts). I go all in for 3400. Same two people come along for the ride. Cards turn up, one has A4 diamonds the other K3h. Turn is 2 and river is 5 giving the idiot with the A4 a straight. I don’t necessarily fault the nut flush draw for calling except that he was also all in and personally I don’t like calling all in on a draw. But I can’t for the life of me figure out why the A4 would call. He was the big stack at the table (but not in the tourney) but calling me puts over 1/3 of his chips in the pot. He can’t possibly think he has the best hand. He doesn’t have a reasonable draw at anything and he’s not getting good pot odds (3400 to win 5350).
I felt some consolation after popping over to a ring game and getting pocket AA my first hand and hitting trips on the flop, only to have some moron with a 9-high who hit a pair on the flop go all in ahead of me. My only regret is that there were two people left to act behind me and her gonzo all-in play scared them off and wrecked my slowplay. Oh well, I’ll take the dumbass’s cash and be glad to have it.
The kind of hand you dream about.