Top 5 Biggest Hands on High Stakes Poker #3
You wouldn’t have seen this hand go down like this, obviously, if Guy Laliberte weren’t an amateur in the field of sharks, but there’s a good lesson to be learned here for newer players, and a reminder for the more advanced.
Playing weak aces, even suited, is probably one of the biggest money losers in the game. You call a raise with that weak ace hoping against the odds that you’ll flop a flush, or a flush draw (when even with 4 to the nuts, you’re still a dog against a bigger hand), and then you flop the ace and end up stuck in a pot where you are probably beat by a bigger ace but too stubborn to fold it.
With suited aces, in raised pots, if you aren’t making the flush or aces up, you are often beat. With the odds of making those hands, that makes them unprofitable.
Against a lot of others players, also, though, Guy would have won this pot, esp. if Doyle hadn’t picked up the flush draw on the turn. It was definitely a loose call on Doyle’s part, calling where he most likely had to hit a diamond or maybe his kicker.
A weird hand, to have all of it in there, but a good note to notch.
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