# Interesting Poker Hand I Recently Played **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 24, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-poker-hand-i-recently-played/679590 "2014-01-24T03:43:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-poker-hand-i-recently-played/679590/5 "2014-01-24T15:32:27Z")
Huh, you guys make good points. Perhaps the play was not as strong as I thought; as I said, the reaction of the table was one of genuine surprise. One guy said “who plays fours?” (I thought at that “A guy who knows sets pay off” but I didn’t say it, lessons are extra) and another said “Geez, it sure looked like a safe board.” Still, it’s hard for a guy to lay down AAA-K. SenorBeef, my habit of referring to an initial bet as a “raise” is a linguistic tic I absolutely cannot seem to shake. I do that all the time, and I don’t know why, because I’ve become very picky about poker terminology. If someone refers to trips as a “set” I have to bite my tongue to not correct them. But that bet/raise thing, I just cannot get rid of. I make that mistake probably once or twice every session I play, too. “Raise $50.” “Don’t you mean bet?” “Yeah, I do, just take my chips, guys.” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-poker-hand-i-recently-played/679590)._