It was me who gave it, $1-$2 game at the Colonial near the hotel Del Rey... I am with $824 on the table (up $624) and I get JJ UTG. I raise to $16 and I get not one, but actually 5 callers, which I didn't like at all. I decide that since I'm speaking first after flop, I'll raise it pot size as long as an overcard dont hits the board or any crazy straight board that a player would call a raise with. The flop is 3-5-7 rainbow and of course I'm thinking, a set would be possible but unlikely, these players would all call a raise with 3-3, 5-5, or 7-7 preflop, but the chances of any of them hitting a set are slim, an overpair would have raised my raise for sure, especially after every single caller, and a 6-4 for me was just out of the question to call a raise with (never understimate a donk). Well, the pot is $80 and that's what I bet, 2 guys to my left fold quickly, guy on the middle raises to $160 total and the SB and BB both fold, I tank for a moment and engage him in a little conversation which makes me feel he likes his hand, I analyze his range and decide he might have 6-6, 8-8, 9-9, T-T. QQ, KK, or AA ar just non an option as this point because of how the hand was played. I go all in and to my disbelief he calls and flips 6-4 for a flopped straight, he has me covered and my chances of winning this hand are just 3%, almost none. Dealer turns a J to shock the table, we stare at each other like saying, someone is going to fuck someone over and I hope it's me, dealer rivers a 5 for the rivered boat the whole poker room goes ballistic and I jump and kiss the female dealer in the mouth and tip her $56 (what I won against the other guys preflop). I rake in my $1644 and celebrate with Jack Daniels double on the rocks and two bumps on the restroom counter. Great night. Guy is good about it and we even go together to Del Rey to drink some beers after playing and I pick his tab for the beers, it felt right. He leaves as I'm already hooked on 3 colombian girls that I will end up taking to a motel and fucking for 3 hours with about two 8balls of blow. Celebration costed around $800 but hey, it was worth it. One of the best nights of my life, no longer play poker, no longer bang hookers, til I do it again. This was back in 2009.
was massive chip leader in a bodog tournament with 9 left i had more than half the chips, top 5 get hawaiian trip to hang out and play poker with snoop dogg and shannon elizabeth. once in a lifetime experience, probably worth at least $5k.
so long story short, i got a couple of horrible beats out of the blinds when i flopped 2 pair and a set, and finished 7th. looking back i should've just autofolded my way to 5th, so dumb but what can you do when you flop the nuts.
so long story short, i got a couple of horrible beats out of the blinds when i flopped 2 pair and a set, and finished 7th. looking back i should've just autofolded my way to 5th, so dumb but what can you do when you flop the nuts.
Sickest I've ever taken was in an online cash game. It wasn't a bad beat technically (i've taken plenty of the standard bad beats where a guy catches something on the river) but it was just nasty. Sitting with 600 (after starting with 200). I had I feeling I should have gotten up since there were two other guys at the table that had been playing all day and even though the max you could sit down with was 200 they were both over 1000. Well one of those guys raises double the blind and I am the only caller with K10 suited spades. I flop the flush. We go all in after the flop. I'm thinking I am about to cash out for over 1200. He turns over A2 of spades. He flopped the Ace high flush to my king high one. Not sure what the odds are of two players flopping a flush a general, let alone an ace high over king high. It sucked.
not even me but the other week i was at a 1-2 home cash game. two guys go all in (probably about $600 in the pot). One guy flips over AA and the other guy flips QQ. They run it 3 times. Q pops up on the first board, A pops up on the second one but the QQ guy catches 4 of that suit for a flush, and Q on the third board.....hahaha....I had to try not to laugh.
Let me clarify.
I see the hand you are speaking of nearly every single time I play poker.
Thats one in every 200 hands.
That is a pretty normal thing.
Yes I normally do feel pretty comfortable with a K high flush assuming I used both of my hold cards to get the flush and assuming that there are only 3 of the same suit on the board and assuming that the board is not pared.
If all of the above is true I do feel comfortable most of the time but I am certainly not counting my money at that point.
It may not happen every single time I play. But sometimes it will happen 2 or 3 times in a day.
Im sure I have seen that hand at least 300 times in my lifetime playing poker.
When you are playing 16 tables at the same time sometimes for 8 hours straight you have pretty much seen it all.
regarding the justin cruise hand....that is pretty sick for both guys to flop a flush....but if i'm playing this hand, I flop 2nd nut flush and i'm certainly not ready to go all in. the other guy could easily have the A and he has a turn and river to beat me.....he left you drawing dead but the way the hand plays out he has either a (1) lower flush, a (2) higher flush, or (3) the A and is drawing to the nut flush
(3) is more likely and the 4th spade gets there enough times where it wouldn't shock me.
i'm not sure how you are counting the pot with 2nd highest flush on a one suited board.
i guess he could also have 2 pair or a set hoping to flop a boat (which again is drawing to a higher hand)
(3) is more likely and the 4th spade gets there enough times where it wouldn't shock me.
i'm not sure how you are counting the pot with 2nd highest flush on a one suited board.
i guess he could also have 2 pair or a set hoping to flop a boat (which again is drawing to a higher hand)
