Greatest hand I have ever seen!

[SaintAces]

I am in a eight person home tourney with my friends with a buy-in of 50$. This is absolutely enormous, considering most of us of Sophomores in High School...

We fight for 4 hours down to the final two and I have about 800 chips to his 900.

Prize Payouts are:
1st: 300
2nd: 50
3rd: 50

So, basically, we got a 250$ difference between second and first.

Since we are heads up, we are using antes of 25.
To the hand!


I have A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] and absorbe a preflop raise of fifty from my opponent. I reraise to 200, considering that he is a tight player and not wanting to scare him away.

Flop is the glorious A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 10 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] A [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
I have the obvious nuts so I don't wanna scare him away. He fires in a raise? of 100 more and I hesitantly (or so it would seem) call.

Turn: is the 2 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] and I am raised 250, and I am praying that he has the flush, or at least a draw. OR, maybe he is representing Trip aces. I put in a small raise in of 100 more, trying to give the draw good odds and the made flush great ones. He calls.

River: Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
He goes all in and I beat him into the pot.
I am so happy I have won it big!
Greatest had ever!



he turns over KoJax Clubs... That's slang for K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]


I had to save the suspense for the end!

Now... I can wait for someone to tell me that I misplayed the second best hand in poker.

[Wake up CALL]

"Now... I can wait for someone to tell me that I misplayed the second best hand in poker.

Perhaps this will make you feel better: It is actually the 41st best hand in poker (40 different straight flushes better than your hand). If you include wild card games where 5 of a kind is the best hand then your quad aces are only the 54th best hand. Now perhaps losing to the royal flush doesn't seem so bad after all! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[SaintAces]

Hehe... I though of that too, but I didn't think too many people would pick up on that one. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[DougBrennan]

I'd recommend cutting the cards next time. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[SaintAces]

I am not kidding either [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]



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[DrPhysic]

Tough hand, however:

I heard one of the pro's on WPT being interviewed who said "you can't really appreciate winning a million $ hand, until you've lost one."

Better luck next time.

Doc

[DrPublo]

Doyle mentions that EXACT hand in Super/System, p. 345 of my edition.

If you play this game long enough, you'll see everything [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

DrPublo

[Scooterdoo]

If that ever happens to you in most casinos you will jump up and down and start dancing because you would have just won a bad beat jackpot which is often worth $50k+. Tough luck, but what are you going to do.

A few days ago I have the 9s and the river gives me a straight flush through the Ks. At first I was hoping that someone else had a flush through the A and then I quickly realized that it woudn't be good at all since they would have a royal straight flush (the board was T-Ks). Luckily noboyd had the As.

[Wake up CALL]

[ QUOTE ]
Tough hand, however:

I heard one of the pro's on WPT being interviewed who said "you can't really appreciate winning a million $ hand, until you've lost one."



[/ QUOTE ]

I believe that was Ted Forrest, I liked that quote too.

[Eric P]

that's simply not true, there are 10 hands better than 4 aces, a striaght flush is a striaght flush regardless of suite so there are only ten hands better. However, re-rasing 100 afer a 250 bet? you realize you aren't playing by the right rules? anyways, nh.