€400 NL HE Full Ring: The Best Hand Ever

[primrose]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Stakes

$2/$4

Table Format

Full (8-10 seats)

Currency

€

In this final hand of the day for me, in my local casino, I have in the HJ. Two people before me limp, say UTG+1 and LJ, I don't remember exactly. I'd usually raise here but for not entirely rational reasons I make the weaker play and limp behind. SB completes and BB checks.

The board comes (Pot=20).

PRETTY GOOD BOARD. It checks to me. You almost never want to slowplay in multiway pots, but this is an exception. I have the board murdered and anyone with two broadways is going to pay far more if they get a pair, while being very unlikely to outdraw me. So I check. Last two people check as well.

Turn is the (Pot=20). This is actually the worst possible card because now I lose to the two of diamonds . LJ proclaims to have the two and bets 12.My hand is still decent but I can't really raise. I call. Everyone else folds.

River is the (Pot=44). LJ informs me that he didn't have the two after all and bets 16. You could actually probably profitably min-raise this as a bluff but I was done with poker for the day and open-folded. LJ showed which means we would have chopped. Both of us were playing the board.

What a great hand of poker!

 

[puzzlefish]

The two on the turn is actually good because it upgrades quite a few pairs to counterfeited full houses that look a lot better than they really are (twos full).

The river was brutal though.

 

[fundiver199]

Preflop
If there ever is a hand to limp behind with, its a small pair, so I dont mind this. Of course if you literally never limp, it might raise suspicion, but this is assuming, people even pay attention, which maybe they do, but maybe they dont.

Flop
I agree, its best to slowplay here. A small pair might be more likely to call now rather than later, but its unlikely to call more than one bet anyway. While if someone have say KJs and turn a J, they will likely pay two bets on the turn and river not giving you much credit for having a 2 in your hand. There are also two players left to act behind, who could do your betting for you.

Turn
How often do people actually limp with a 2 in their hand? If its only A2s, then there is only 1 combo of that. A2o 4 combos, so still not much more likely than getting oversetted, if the turn was a 7. The flop got checked, so its still a very small pot, and depending an the answer to, what people actually limp with, I think, you might still be able to raise. If there is table talk going on, maybe you could even engage in it in some way to make it look like, you are bluffing.

River
Now you are counterfeited, and I would not do anything other than check and fold here. If you have a bucket, you can vomit in it.

 

[primrose]

Good points actually, I agree I probably did have room to raise the Turn.

 

[fundiver199]

Good points actually, I agree I probably did have room to raise the Turn.

Obviously at this point BB was still in the hand, and he can have any two cards, since he got a free look at the flop. But if you raise, and BB does anything other than fold, then you can just bail out and be done with the hand. Most of the time BB does not have a deuce, since there are 46 unseen cards and only one of them is the last deuce.

 

[Station_Master]

In this final hand of the day for me, in my local casino, I have in the HJ. Two people before me limp, say UTG+1 and LJ, I don't remember exactly. I'd usually raise here but for not entirely rational reasons I make the weaker play and limp behind. SB completes and BB checks.

The board comes (Pot=20).

PRETTY GOOD BOARD. It checks to me. You almost never want to slowplay in multiway pots, but this is an exception. I have the board murdered and anyone with two broadways is going to pay far more if they get a pair, while being very unlikely to outdraw me. So I check. Last two people check as well.

Turn is the (Pot=20). This is actually the worst possible card because now I lose to the two of diamonds . LJ proclaims to have the two and bets 12.My hand is still decent but I can't really raise. I call. Everyone else folds.

River is the (Pot=44). LJ informs me that he didn't have the two after all and bets 16. You could actually probably profitably min-raise this as a bluff but I was done with poker for the day and open-folded. LJ showed which means we would have chopped. Both of us were playing the board.

What a great hand of poker!

Haha wild hand!

 

[primrose]

Obviously at this point BB was still in the hand, and he can have any two cards, since he got a free look at the flop. But if you raise, and BB does anything other than fold, then you can just bail out and be done with the hand. Most of the time BB does not have a deuce, since there are 46 unseen cards and only one of them is the last deuce.

Yeah, embarrassingly I did not realize during the hand that the 66 beats a pocket pair above 7.

This is actually the second time that almost the same thing happened, there was another hand months ago where I flopped a full house with 88 + 668 from the board and the runout was 6 -> 6, and on the Turn I thought my full house was no longer beating a higher pocket pair. Only in this case I blasted the River for about 250 and my opponent open-folded a King.

Anyway yeah this is something I need to fix badly. Let's learn to read the board 😐

 

[Station_Master]

I think the hand was played ok though there is a viable more aggressive action on each street.

River in particular is interesting. You have a good bluffing hand blocking A6s and my sense would be few villains are just stabbing any two broadways on the turn so you will mostly be against low PP the you chop with, 6x (although as noted above you block thix quite heavily) and the occasional 77 and 88 that werent confident to bet flop. You can also credibly have A6s with your line. Not sure i find it in game tho!

 

[Kerasuss28]

Wow crazy hand 😭

 

[fundiver199]

You can also credibly have A6s with your line. Not sure i find it in game tho!

I am pretty sure, that in real time I would just curse the card gods for the worst runout in the history of poker, and I would not have the mental capacity to turn my hand into a bluff, when my mindset until the river had been how to best get paid

 

[primrose]

I am pretty sure, that in real time I would just curse the card gods for the worst runout in the history of poker, and I would not have the mental capacity to turn my hand into a bluff, when my mindset until the river had been how to best get paid

Same, but a better player could have found the River bluff.

 

[gustav197poker]

Too much of a good run to continue playing live at those tables.

 

[MatheusANF]

The opponent will very rarely have this 2!