Interesting Poker hands

[Mike Dussault]

Two folds to seat 5 who raises to $10 (she only has $48 total)
Seat 9 calls (has $300)
Seat 10 ME calls with A9 clubs (I have $300)
Seat 1 SB calls (has $240)
Seat 2 BB calls (has $650) - we go 5 to the flop
Flop - 10c -7c – Qh
Seats 1 and 2 check.
Seat 5 bets $10 Everybody calls back to the Seat 2 who raise to $20. Seat 5 ships in her final $28 and everyone calls. There is now $240 in the pot.

Seat 5 has pocket JJ
Seat 1 caught a Q, with KQ suited or something...
seat 2 has a Q with a flush draw.
Seat 9 must have an A, possibly A-K
You call your last 250.00 thinking you are out kicked at the least, hoping to draw the club.



Turn comes Ad.

Seat #1 Now leads out $35 (leaving himself about $155)
Seat #2 Jams it all in for $600 something
Seat #5 is already all in
Seat #9 Insta-calls for the rest of his $300. (It’s only his 2nd hand at the table and I just moved from his seat to my seat)

Now it’s back to me and I have $250 left in front of me.

What do you do and what does everybody else have?

[Mike Zorovich]

you'd have to have better then Q's and a flush draw to push $600 in on a 5/10 NL table. especially after seeing the Ace on fourth street, and being five handed. someone had to have another ace or straight.

[Todd Lapham]

Seat 1: AQ or AT
Seat 2: 77 or TT
Seat 5: AJ
Seat 9: KJ

It doesn't really matter all that much what they have. There is almost a 0% chance your pair of aces is good with this action. Now it's time to do some math to see if you should call or not.

Assuming these hand ranges are fairly accurate the numbers look like this:

Board: Ad Tc Qh 7c
Dead:

equity win tie pots won pots tied
Hand 0: 18.860% 18.86% 00.00% 99072 0.00 { Ac9c }
Hand 1: 02.988% 01.32% 01.67% 6912 8784.00 { AA, AJs+, AJo+ }
Hand 2: 13.816% 13.82% 00.00% 72576 0.00 { TT, 77 }
Hand 3: 02.988% 01.32% 01.67% 6912 8784.00 { AJs+, AJo+ }
Hand 4: 61.349% 58.55% 02.80% 307584 14688.00 { KJs, KJo }

We would need to be getting 4-1 to break even on this hand if we call. There's $830(with the possibility of another $155) in the pot and it's $260 to us. Even if seat 1 calls there would be $985 in the pot, which still isn't enough to warrant a call here.

Even if one person has you drawing dead to just the flush that would only hit 19.6% of the time.

I'd let them fight over my $38 invested and wait for the next hand.

[Todd Lapham]

you'd have to have better then Q's and a flush draw to push $600 in on a 5/10 NL table. especially after seeing the Ace on fourth street, and being five handed. someone had to have another ace or straight.

??

I don't think this is a 5-10 table. Also, he's not really pushing in $600 as the second highest chipstack is $300.

[Mike Zorovich]

sorry just guessing on the table........

i know, but he'd still need a premium hand to risk busting everyone involved. that's what i was getting at.

[Gary Cyr]

Seat #1 2 pair Q-10
Seat #2 K-J
Seat 5 - never showed
Seat 9 K-J

I knew that seat #1 would put the rest of his stack in the pot because he tried to do it while I was thinking. I decided to go for it not getting quite enough odds and overextended myself to make the call.

River comes 3 of clubs! BOOM!!! Ship it!

[Gary Cyr]

Bad beat was hit Saturday night for $487,000

Pocket 10's against Pocket Q's

Flop 10-Q-10,..turn Q. Two kids hit it. Both 24 years old I think.

10 hours later,..lightning strikes and it's hit again. I have no idea who won that one. It was on a limit table.

[Craig Smolin]

With the new job in hand, I've started going back to my neighbor's club here in Norwalk for a $50 tournament. 3000 in chips, 40 people.

After losing 10 people, the tables were broken down. 100-200 blinds, and I'm 3rd to act after the big blind.

I have pocket 10s, and I bet 600, with about 4000 left.

Everyone folds to the big blind, and old man, who calls. My read is: straight ahead player, not a rock, but not loose. Conservatively aggressive.

Flop comes out 5c-4c-3s.

He bets out 1000.

What was my read, what did I do, what did he have, and what do you think happened?

[Mike Dussault]

Maybe he has a mid pair and has an overpair to the flop. He thinks his hand is good and calls your all in move over the top. When he turns up his pocket nines he is way behind and loses his stack.

[Craig Smolin]

Almost right Mike. My thinking was that there was no way he'd lead out with trips. He seemed aware enough to make a slow-play move with type of hand, so I put him on two overcards to the flop, with either a flush or straight draw of some sort. Probably some combo of an Ace with king, queen, or jack.

I didn't want to see him draw out on me, and I didn't want to play weak, so I did move all-in. I had him covered with about 1350 left in my stack. Amazingly he makes the call.

My gut read is that he's pulled a reverse-slowplay on me, and was betting trips. But no ... he flips over ... As-10x!!!

He's way behind with just three aces and four deuces (to fill his straight). No flush draw possibilities for either of us. A blank on the turn ... but ... a freaking deuce on the river to scum me out of a near double-up.

....

Three hands later I am in the big blind and look down to find pocket queens. After an early bet of 700 pushes everyone out, I move all-in again. My opponent calls and flips over Ace-jack. I'm ahead through the flop and turn but ... scummed again ... an ace on the river to knock me out.

[Mike Dussault]

A-10 was a horrible call on his part. Tough beats Smolin.

[Gary Cyr]

Almost right Mike. My thinking was that there was no way he'd lead out with trips. He seemed aware enough to make a slow-play move with type of hand, so I put him on two overcards to the flop, with either a flush or straight draw of some sort. Probably some combo of an Ace with king, queen, or jack.

I didn't want to see him draw out on me, and I didn't want to play weak, so I did move all-in. I had him covered with about 1350 left in my stack. Amazingly he makes the call.

My gut read is that he's pulled a reverse-slowplay on me, and was betting trips. But no ... he flips over ... As-10x!!!

He's way behind with just three aces and four deuces (to fill his straight). No flush draw possibilities for either of us. A blank on the turn ... but ... a freaking deuce on the river to scum me out of a near double-up.

....

Three hands later I am in the big blind and look down to find pocket queens. After an early bet of 700 pushes everyone out, I move all-in again. My opponent calls and flips over Ace-jack. I'm ahead through the flop and turn but ... scummed again ... an ace on the river to knock me out.

Dumb-azz calls you with A-10! Gotta love it. A stupid move like that is usually followed up with a dumb azz reply like,.."I thought you were making a move at the pot".

Really,..making a move! So you think I 3 bet in early postion with what,..A-9 or maybe KQ?? Get him next time Craig. He obviously has no clue

[Titan Bariloni]

I really hate when I know I should call for pot odds and fold and a straight flush flops and you watch 3 guys stack off and all I woulda had to do was hit call and sweep a sweeeeet juicy pot......

[Gary Cyr]

One of the sickest hands ever,..and I love it when it happens to Hellmuth!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Z9NXefBOQ

[Tom Southwick]

http://www.break.com/index/a-crazy-game-of-poker.html


This poker hand is as unlikely as me not winning the Vibram Open poker tourney.

[Gary Cyr]

You could almost smell that Q coming Tom.

Is there a Vibram open Poker Tourny this year?

[Tom Southwick]

Karen took me to Foxwoods for my Christmas present. I'm playing 1-2 no limit holdem. I fold a lot, but finally get pocket queens. Raise to 10, two calls. Flop 9,9,4. Two problems, someone could have a nine and there is a flush draw. I bet 10 again, both call. Turn- Queen, problems solved I think I bet twenty, one guy calls. River gives him his flush, he goes all-in, I call and take all his money. Poker is great.

I win a couple small hands, then get Ace, King of hearts. I raise to 10, someone re-raises aggressively, I call. Flop King, queen, eight, no flush draw. YES! I bet, he re-raises aggressively. Bluff continuation? Maybe he has ace, queen. Maybe we'll split the pot. Long story short- he put me all in and showed pocket eights. Poker sucks.