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Worst Hold em deal?

  • dazedconfused
    like_that;1274210 wrote:I hate pocket aces myself. A/K Is worse though. Both hands sucker you into getting raped.
    hate a/k. always such a c**k tease
  • Laley23
    I usually go all in with AA. If someone calls, I am automatically ahead to double up. If I lose, it is usually to someone who had a decent hand to call at least. Not many (even idiots) call an all in pre-flop (of course, depends on how much money you have).
  • Rotinaj
    So people hate AA and AK? What hands do you guys actually like playing??
  • Steel Valley Football
    Rotinaj;1274278 wrote:So people hate AA and AK? What hands do you guys actually like playing??
    Not me, I'll take those all night.
  • Gblock
    I lost a 1500 dollar hand on friday w QQ preflop...I make it 35 to go in a 1-2 game and get two callers. im in between them. flop comes Q89...first to act bets 150...i go all in for 400 more...this asian chick is last and she calls, and so does the original bettor. the first better has 88..the chick has 710 turn is a 3 and river is a J. She scraped the whole pot. this was at 3:45 am. I played great all night and turned 160 into around 600 and lost it on one hand to one of the worst players that plays there. i have no one to blame but myself but i was still pretty pissed.
  • j_crazy
    Ive been killed with trip jacks more than i care to relate. Hate jj preflop.
  • sleeper
    ernest_t_bass;1274242 wrote:They'll pay stupidly, knowing they have a low percentage hand... then hit on the river!
    They will lose over time if they play this way. Every time I get pocket aces I make a large bet pre-flop and if nothing dangerous hits, I make an extremely large bet to win the hand right then.
  • mcburg93
    Rotinaj;1274278 wrote:So people hate AA and AK? What hands do you guys actually like playing??
    I will play those all day. I like q-10 suited I find it hard to fold.
  • sleeper
    Steel Valley Football;1274255 wrote:Does anyone raise your open straights after the flop if you're on the high end of the straight? What about when your dealt the nut flush in the hole? A4 hearts for example, if that's not the proper terminology.
    When in doubt, raise. Always raise. Slow playing just gets you burnt. Not saying I never slow play, but I usually come out firing whether I hit something or not.
  • sleeper
    The basic strategy is to win pots, no matter how big or small. Show your hands early in the night ONLY when you have a monster hand. This way, betting signals to the other players that you are only betting when you have a monster. Later in the night, you can bluff your way to $.
  • gport_tennis
    Gblock;1274291 wrote:I lost a 1500 dollar hand on friday w QQ preflop...I make it 35 to go in a 1-2 game and get two callers. im in between them. flop comes Q89...first to act bets 150...i go all in for 400 more...this asian chick is last and she calls, and so does the original bettor. the first better has 88..the chick has 710 turn is a 3 and river is a J. She scraped the whole pot. this was at 3:45 am. I played great all night and turned 160 into around 600 and lost it on one hand to one of the worst players that plays there. i have no one to blame but myself but i was still pretty pissed.

    Where do you play at? I play at some of the clubs in Columbus
  • Gblock
    nicks shark tank on bethel rd columbus
  • Steel Valley Football
    Gblock;1274305 wrote:nicks shark tank on bethel rd columbus
    I'm at On Tap all the time...you ever go in there? They get a lot of spillover business from there.
  • gport_tennis
    pocket aces are only a hard hand to play because many people have issues reassessing made and potential hands after the flop. People let emotions take over and bet away no matter what's on the board.
  • Steel Valley Football
    sleeper;1274302 wrote:The basic strategy is to win pots, no matter how big or small. Show your hands early in the night ONLY when you have a monster hand. This way, betting signals to the other players that you are only betting when you have a monster. Later in the night, you can bluff your way to $.
    By show do you mean actually show or "show" by betting big?
  • Gblock
    im in on tap all the time you probly know me...i love jackie, jen, penny and katie are my favorite bartenders
  • sleeper
    Steel Valley Football;1274317 wrote:By show do you mean actually show or "show" by betting big?
    Like if you win the pot, or if everyone folds. I only recommend doing this until you've built a solid reputation enough that people think that when you bet, you have something big.
  • Steel Valley Football
    mcburg93;1274220 wrote:You can push people around with it, unfortunately its the donkeys that play 7-9 suited cause its their favorite hand. They hit a 7-9 on the flop and think they made an awesome play.
    7-9, 10-8, etc suited aren't bad hands to play actually. Not call big, but play.
  • Rotinaj
    gport_tennis;1274315 wrote:pocket aces are only a hard hand to play because many people have issues reassessing made and potential hands after the flop. People let emotions take over and bet away no matter what's on the board.
    +1. Most people just can't fold. I see this all the time with people who have A/trash flop an A and make big calls and bets all the way to the river when it's damn obvious that they are beat.
  • Steel Valley Football
    Gblock;1274318 wrote:im in on tap all the time you probly know me...i love jackie, jen, penny and katie are my favorite bartenders
    That's funny. I've been going there since it opened. Used to live behind there on Slade Ave. I'll keep an eye out for you.
  • Steel Valley Football
    sleeper;1274321 wrote:Like if you win the pot, or if everyone folds. I only recommend doing this until you've built a solid reputation enough that people think that when you bet, you have something big.
    Ok thanks.
  • justincredible
    O-Trap;1274260 wrote:None.
    Doesn't sound like the kind of poker I'd be interested in playing then.
  • gport_tennis
    mcburg93;1274220 wrote:You can push people around with it, unfortunately its the donkeys that play 7-9 suited cause its their favorite hand. They hit a 7-9 on the flop and think they made an awesome play.

    Middle suited connectors are hands taylor made to crack aces. there are just tons of outs to hit. and if the flop comes out dry it's easy to fold
  • gport_tennis
    Rotinaj;1274334 wrote:+1. Most people just can't fold. I see this all the time with people who have A/trash flop an A and make big calls and bets all the way to the river when it's damn obvious that they are beat.

    So true. That's the person I look for at the table.
  • Steel Valley Football
    gport_tennis;1274347 wrote:Middle suited connectors are hands taylor made to crack aces. there are just tons of outs to hit. and if the flop comes out dry it's easy to fold
    Exactly, and it's not locked like many straights toward either other end.