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 Biggest pots, stdioh, 18. Jun 2003 09:39 | ||
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| After that thread about, "What was your first winning hand," that nobody could remember, how about this one: What was your biggest pot ever, in terms of number of big bets in the pot in a limit hold'em (or omaha for that matter) game. Here's mine. Pot was $850 in a 10-20 game, so that's 42.5 big bets. I was holding Qc8c in the big blind, there were a lot of limpers and a late position raise, so I decided to defend with this cheesey piece of cheese. There was a limp-reraise and a cap. There had to be 7 of us in the hand. Against my better judgement in what was likely a -EV bet I called 2. The flop came down giving me a second nut flush draw and a gutshot. I was married to this hog. Massive number of players in and capped on the flop. Capped on the turn. River hits my gutshot, giving me the second nuts. The only hand that would have been better would be someone holding only a gutshot without a flush draw, so I fealt marginally safe. I three bet the river and took down $850. When I took down the pot, the table exploded into "BLAH BLAH GUTSHOT STUPID NOT FAIR SET" talk. Heheh. Of course the guy who always claimed to have the second nuts tells me he's drawing to a better flush after mucking his cards - proof that he wasn't because if he was he would have shown them. Was somebody drawing to the nut flush? Not unlikely. Was I very very lucky? Yup. Did I deserve this? Nope. Did I play the hand right? Not a chance in the world. Did I have a grin from ear to ear? You bet your arse I did. | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, shorn, 18. Jun 2003 09:53 | ||
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| 15-30 for me at Bellagio...$700 (23 bb's) pot on which I was down to the felt. AKh in late position, 3 callers and a raise to me I 3-bet, everyone calls. Flop comes with two hearts. Bet, 3 callers and I raise with my nut flush draw, two overcards, 3-bet and called to me (ugh...). I call. Turn is a rag (no heart) bet, a raise and I stupidly call with around $60 in front of me now BECAUSE I AM SO GODDAM DUE TO HIT A FLUSH!!. River...5h. Wheeeeeeeeeee.....nasty check all the way to me, I bet, call call, RAISE! Yay!, I throw in my last $30 and get two callers (one with top set, the other with QJ hearts). I was re-energized and tyrned it into a winning trip after that. | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, MozMan, 18. Jun 2003 09:55 | ||
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| LOL! Great story. I love it! I think my recent post about the hand against my nemesis, when I drew the str8-flush against his nut-flush was probably actually my second biggest drag. The biggest pot I ever took was when my casino was doing something called a 'Splash-pot.' It was a little extra they were doing back in April, where they would draw low-limit (3-6 and 4-8) table numbers at random, and a floor person would come over and dump a rack of white ($100) in the middle of the table for the next hand. Our table drew a splash-pot, and when the rack came, it was also a kill and EVERYBODY was in a lot further than they should have gone. The entire table saw the flop, and think there were still four or five hands at the showdown. I had pocket 9s on the button and flopped a set on an completely uncoordinated board. I was able to raise pre-flop and on the flop, but everyone checked around to me on the turn and river. Of course, I bet out on both, making them pay to see my set. That pot was huge. I don't remember exactly how much there was, but it was over $400. Just tremendous for a 3-6 game. The following week, sombody sucked out a lousy boat on the river (playing 85o) to beat my flopped nut-flush on a splash pot that was about $280 (no kill this time). -Moz "Great. I've got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido, The Killer Pimp." | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, Big_Slick, 18. Jun 2003 10:18 | ||
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| Just last week I raked in my largest pot in my short poker career. It was 31BB in a 3/6 game at PartyPoker. I had a poor sap who not only married his aces, but probably divorced them after the hell I put him in. I had K-K and the button had A-A. The flop came K-K-A. There were 4 people who saw the flop (after making it 4 to go) and I was first to act. I decided to bet just to how stubborn these people were. The first two called and the button with the A-A raised. This is when I paused, looked up and said "Thank you God". Well, I won't bore you with the rest. Let's just say that there was a lot of raising going on. Knowing my luck, I was expecting another A to flop on the river but it didn' t happen. I think one of the other players held an ace since he stayed around for a few raises. I always keep my chat off but took a peak after the hand and the guy wrote "That hurt". Incidentally, that was my 8th quad in 3 weeks. And I only average 20-30 hours of play per week. Someone must like me. | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, Wren, 18. Jun 2003 10:30 | ||
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| "Incidentally, that was my 8th quad in 3 weeks. And I only average 20-30 hours of play per week. Someone must like me." No chit! I put in well over 1000 hours of online play last year, and I don't think I had quads that many times! (though I did have 3 straight flushes, two of which held up for the high hand jackpot) | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, TKarrde, 18. Jun 2003 11:36 | ||
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| Come on Wren? You play on UB right? And all those internet sites are rigged, right? I honestly got quads three times in one hour on UB. And have probably gotten them a dozen times since I have been playing. Last night I was in a SnG. Got dealt. AA. The flop came TAA. But as it has been said here before "I'd rather win big pots than have big hands." I couldn't bet the flop or they would fold. I checked all the way to the river hopeing someone would bet. I bet the minimum at the river and got paid. But I'd have rather flopped a set of 8s with a lone Ace on the board. TKarrde "You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never to get involved in a land war in Asia. And only slightly less well known is this: never go in against a Sicilian (Mozman) when death is on the line!" | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, Big_Slick, 18. Jun 2003 12:28 | ||
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| I've had excellent results betting my quads. There are a lot of ATM's at the lower limit games. | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, TKarrde, 18. Jun 2003 13:12 | ||
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| This was actually a Sit and Go for points. But I'm not sure I would have bet it out on the flop even if I was on the 25¢ table. Okay... maybe I would. :) TKarrde "At the time you don't think much of it, you know, we just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives. Back then I thought, 'There'll be other days...', I didn't realize that was the only day." | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, shorn, 18. Jun 2003 10:43 | ||
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| Slick- I might have been at your table for that because I do remember a big pot (biggest I had seen in 3-6) on Party with Quad Kings taking it down. Anyway, that is awesome. Steve | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, Wren, 18. Jun 2003 10:26 | ||
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| My biggest at the Brantford $5-10 was a $350ish pot that involved me rivering the nut flush when I was drawing vewwy vewwy thin :O) It was funny, 'cause I unintentionally raised preflop. I had A4s, and went to drop a chip in after a few limpers, but two fell instead. "Oops!" I said. "I didn't mean to raise!" But, of course, the bet was in there, so it held. I really wasn't intending to angle shoot, but the net effect was that we ended up with 8 people taking the flop for 2 bets. Not bad with my multiway hand. Flop came with 2 spades. There was one bet and a bunch of calls. Turn made a straight possible, and a lot of action ensued - I suspected the guy on my right of having a made straight, and I put the other two guys on sets, two pair or some sort of combination draw. I got sucked in there for 3 bets on the turn. The river was a lovely small spade that didn't pair the board. Straight guy bet again (?!), I raised, got a cold-call and a call from him. When I turned over the nuts, he looked very disgusted and turned over a straight, a flush AND 4 to the straight flush. (The other guy was on a set and just couldn't fold the river). So it turned out that I was drawing to exactly 4 clean spades - all the others would have either paired the board or given straight-boy his straight flush (or both). Eek. | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, SKinner, 18. Jun 2003 11:13 | ||
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| My biggest pot was 32 BB, on a hand I likewise should have dumped preflop. I'm in MP with 77. UTG + 1 raises. Crap. What the heck, I think. I call the raise. Mistake #1. Dealer reraises. Ugh. But wait, we're not done. Not the original raiser, but the guy after him, caps it!! Aha! You raise, I reraise!! Take that!! I shouldn't be here, but it's 7 handed, and I figure with all those people, I'd at least see the flop. The flop: TsTc7c Unreal. 4 people see the turn for just 1 bet. Turn card 6c. Oh, happy day!! There's a flush on the board now. (Not to mention that someone else is holding 66, which I don't know at the time.) Turn gets capped. River is 9c, making the board TsTc7c6c9c Mistake #2: Anyone holding 8c has me beat on the str8 flush. I don't realize this until exactly right now. oops. Anyway, it was 32 BB to me. Sometimes things go right. –SKinner | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, Piers Majestyk, 18. Jun 2003 11:35 | ||
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| I have been in some doozies over the last 9 years so I can't recollect my largest BB win in one pot but a few days ago I was fortunate enough to rake in 3 pots over the 150.00 margin and another 60.00 pot (ca. 90 BB total) in the span of two rounds of 36 holdem at party. That was a refreshing day after a rather rough week. | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, 4 POKER, 18. Jun 2003 13:00 | ||
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| The biggest pot I had ever won (in relation to the limit and the # of bets) was a $2,700 pot in a $30-60 Omaha hi-low game in Foxwoods casino, Connecticut. The game was extremely aggressive, with at least six to all ten players seeing the flop! I was UTG with a real piece of cheese and called the first bet, and then about six other players limped in behind me. The LP player puts in a raise, I call the one extra bet, and then the EP player decides to three bet the hand now, and then the LP player puts a cap on it. I was already in for two bets and decided to call the other two bets as well. DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME FOLKS!! I was holding A-3-Q-8 suited, and given my poor position and the fact that this game WAS aggressive, made my call here even more incorrect. But I don't know...something told me to play it! I don't know for what reason though, I was winning in the game already, I didn't have any of those so-called "bad beats' put on me...but for some reason I had a hunch to play it. These hunches don't happen too often to me, but whatever....I played a dog hand anyway and got extremely lucky. I flopped the ignorant side of the straight draw and the runner, runner nut flush draw with the runner, runner SECOND nut low draw!! Oh my God...what CRAP!! Anyway, the flop came up 10-9-4 rainbow. Check,(me), bet, call, call, call, call, call, RAISE, call(me again), RAISE, call, call etc. etc. RE-RAISE, call (stupid me again).....CAP!! No kiddin' I thought. The turn brought the nut flush draw in spaids,(I was holding the nut flush draw in clubs), but anyway.....the turn card was the 5 of spaids giving me the draw to the wheel IF the deuce decided to fall. Someone had flopped top set, and had turned the nut flush draw WITH the nut low draw! Obviously, there was much heavy betting on the turn. The river card brought an offsuit Jack and I was holding the Queen-eight, for the second nuts. There was no qualifying low hand for this board, and I decided to fire out and bet. I really didn't think that anybody was holding the K-Q(for the nut straight), and I was right. I got paid off in 3 spots and dragged down a monster pot!! I cringe just writing this post......"What a horrible hand given those circumstances". Would I play the same holding again under those circumstances??.......NO. But for some strange reason, I did. Like I had mentioned...."Do Not Try This At Home"!! Veddy, veddy bad play........veddy, veddy bad! But it was a hunch, so I went with it...and that's my final answer and I'm sticking to it!! 4 POKER | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, stdioh, 18. Jun 2003 13:44 | ||
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| Wow. I think that if I had been holding top set with nut low draw in that hand and you had pulled that out of your pants for a pot of that size I would have just lost it. You'd find me in the parking lot covered with honey and ants trying to commit a really painful suicide. | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, MozMan, 18. Jun 2003 13:49 | ||
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| ugh... there's a visual I didn't need right after lunch... LOL! -Moz "Does Barry Manilow know you raided his wardrobe closet?" | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, 4 POKER, 18. Jun 2003 20:01 | ||
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| on 18. Jun 2003 13:44 stdioh wrote: > Wow. I think that if I had been holding top set with nut low draw in that hand and you had > pulled that out of your pants for a pot of that size I would have just lost it. You'd find > me in the parking lot covered with honey and ants trying to commit a really painful > suicide. Stdioh, First......LOL! The good thing about Foxwoods is, there's so many people who've got a ton of money and losing a hand or two doesn't effect them at all. Not to mention that this particular player who was holding top set with the nut/nut draw was classified IMO as one of the bigger fishes. So he wasn't even that upset about it. In fact, he wasn't even aware as to what a "dog" my hand really was. Oh, and yeah...I woulda been preeettty steamed over it too, but things like this happen all the time, especially in Omaha hi-lo. I should have known better though, really. But Oh well. And if there's ever a post about "just gambling"...well that hand of mine would definitely fall under that category for sure!! 4P- | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, Yeoda, 18. Jun 2003 14:29 | ||
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| Playing 5-10 and sitting on the button, I get K-10s and the blind raises. 5 are around for the flop. Flop comes 9-J-Q with 9-Q my suit. Straight flush draw with nut straight... I'm in heaven. Checks around to me and I bet and 3 call. Turn brings an 8. I suspect one has a flush draw, one has straight to Queen, and one has top pair or 2-pair. Bet, call, call, and I raise and they all call. Last card is 3 and the flush doesn't hit. Bet, call, call, and I raise and they all call.... I flip my cards over. $200+++ Niiiiiiiiice. | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, tron, 18. Jun 2003 16:01 | ||
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| well after cashing in on the 20/40 i moved up to 50/100 second hand i got rag K2. raised like mad btwn 2 people flop comes 722, flop is capped which i am slow playing next card K, capped again. last card 9. i raised the original raiser he shows me AQ offsuit. Nice 2700 pot. but i suspect team play here. i gather my chips and cash out. | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, Yeoda, 19. Jun 2003 04:49 | ||
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| Nice pot! I have no problems ditching a table if things feel kinda hinky. | ||
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| Re: Biggest pots, stdioh, 19. Jun 2003 09:23 | ||
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| That should be posted in "not quite poker" What are you doing with your K2 here?!?!? | ||
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