Making Huge Hands
Last night at our local homegame, I made a natural royal flush: AJ suited in diamonds flopped the flush draw, and filled in with the Q of diamonds on the river. The turn had paired the board and gave another player trips, but as with most cases where you make a hand of this caliber, it’s pretty hard to get paid off. I was still able to get a little off my boy CHEEZE though (#1 playa in Atlanta).
Flopping quads, for instance. I’ve made quads many times in real games and online especially. It’s just hard to get anyone to put money in on a paired board when they don’t have one of those pairs, unless they are unlucky enough to make a boat at the same time, which is so rare. Usually quads get next to nothing.
I’ve made royal flushes online before (several times, usually against other huge hands, thanks Full Tilt) but never live. It’s kind of a funny feeling: it almost doesn’t seem real. When it does happen live, it reminds you what a rarity it is to actually make that kind of hand, which is why online poker seems so ridiculous.
Last night was fun, though. There’s nothing quite like playing cards with a bunch of your friends while chilling, even when the action is sort of slow.
But boy, we were calling clock on each other left and right last night. It was super sweet.
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1 opinion for Making Huge Hands
Jereme
Jan 18, 2008 at 7:29 pm
With this type of hand, I usually bet the opposite of what is expected.
Throw a huge bet out there on the flop to make it look like I am protecting my hand from a draw, draw hits my hand which gives met he nuts and I check showing that I am scared of a flush/straight, usually the other player checks or makes a play at it. If he checks I value bet the river and almost always get a raise and I do some acting and then finally push all in.
Not always but that is how I normally play those types of hands.
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