Tis the season... to give it up ... your favorite play
 

I'd like to develop a list of plays or situations posters love to see. What is your favorite situation where you just lick your chops and want to see the cards roll? Please stay away from the obvious, i.e. we all "love" pocket rockets, etc. But if we can come up with a Xmas play "wish list" that expands our own list of good situations, maybe we can bring home more of that Xmas cash.

My current favorite is betting out a flush draw from the blinds. I play live, and with most tables tending to LAP, this lead bet builds the pot, and is hard for others to place me on a hand. It gives me great flexibility on the turn and river to bluff, semi-bluff, and/or check-raise if the flush hits, etc.

What situations do you want Santa to put under your tree?

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I had 3 set over sets yesterday with some random buddy list member as the 3rd man in the pot calling capped streets for his gutshot and missing.

I'd like more of that.

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I like flopping two pair or a small set against someone with a pair of aces or kings. They think they're invincible but i usually win.

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Calling a flop bet in a HU pot with air then taking it down on the turn. That, or check raising the field on the river.

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Nothing beats sitting at a table of mostly passives when a maniac drops by.

Oh I guess you need cards also.

Merry Christmas.

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If I could consistently get maniacs in the seat immediate to my right, I could quit my day job.

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I won a gigantic pot about 2 weeks ago (42.5 BB), capped on the flop, turn, and river from 3 other players, with my quad 6's. The other players showed 9-8 (8's full of 9's), 8-7 (8's full of 6's), and my personal favorite, A4s for the missed nut flush even though the board was double paired.

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Flopping a set with a pp on a board with an A or K at a loose table.

If we are specifically just talking plays I also enjoy betting out flush draws, OESD, a combination of either top pair, two pair or any pair from the blinds. Like you said when you hit the flush it makes it tough for them to put you on a hand.

OR if I know a TAG is raising from late position to steal I will check raise on the turn and maybe even cap and lead the river with absolute garbage. I have only done this a few times but it has always worked because I'm a very tight player and the TAG has to put me on a great hand. I would never do this against a fish or mediocre player though.

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5-betting the river against Johnny Chan with air!

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The one situation that got away from me was at Bellagio...I had a straight flush on the river and checked it down against two players because I thought I only had a straight. Player #1 turned over an ace-high flush. Player #2 had a full house. I'd love to have that situation back.

Also, having AA and flopping quads against a habitual bluffer. This happened to me at my local casino, and I got him good. He kept saying "I got chips, I got chips." Then when I raised him on the river, he folded and said "you've probably got me outkicked." LOL

ScottieK

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Dear Santa,

There is one situation I absolutely love, but unforunately does not come up that often. That is then I flop a set on a two flush flop and get into a betting war with a couple of loose passives padding the pot by being the meat in a raise sandwich. Then the glorious turn card: it both pairs the board and makes it 3 flush.

Now it's even sweeter when I have quads, but I'll take the boat Santa. I'm not greedy.

I've been a very good boy this year.

Greg

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dear santa,

my AKs is 0/49 for hitting nut flush. could you raise this number a bit between now and christmas?

when i flop bottom set 3 or 4 handed, could you please give the other players any combination of two pair, or TPTK or a gut shot draw and make two of the players also hyper aggressive? i have no problems calling the flop capped, a 3 bet on the turn, and then donking the river.

my draws are horrible, i think i make a very low % of them compared to the times i get them. i've been a very naughty boy this year, and done many things that will probably send me straight to hell for, if my fate is sealed, whats wrong with giving me some pleasure and letting me hit lets say...hmm a modest 63% of my draws over the next 4000 hands?

im not the nicest person in the world. and i dont really like to share. but, when it comes to me and poker, its not really a team thing, cause there is no 'i' in team, but there is an 'i' in selfish.

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The bad beat jackpot is at $750,000.

Villain is 0.45/0.45/.02 over 50,000 hands.

UTG raises and I 3 bet with 9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], folded to UTG who caps I call.

flop is J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

He bets, I call.

Turn is T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

We cap

River is the 2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

We cap

Please.

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hahahahahahahahaha
hahahaha

thats all i can really say

hahahahaa

ok its out of my system now

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[ QUOTE ]
The bad beat jackpot is at $750,000.

Villain is 0.45/0.45/.02 over 50,000 hands.

UTG raises and I 3 bet with 9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], folded to UTG who caps I call.

flop is J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

He bets, I call.

Turn is T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

We cap

River is the 2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

We cap

Please.

[/ QUOTE ]

And when the JP is still 750k next hand, someone at the table can explain that you need to use both of your whole cards to hit the JP.

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Hah.

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[ QUOTE ]
The bad beat jackpot is at $750,000.

Villain is 0.45/0.45/.02 over 50,000 hands.

UTG raises and I 3 bet with 9 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]9 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], folded to UTG who caps I call.

flop is J [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

He bets, I call.

Turn is T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

We cap

River is the 2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

We cap

Please.

[/ QUOTE ]

you know you both have to use both your cards to win it right?

edit: i see someone already said this

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Perhaps the spirit of it is still funny.

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Dear Santa,

Thank you VERY much for the "wheel buster" - you know, where you give me something like x6 in the BB and let me see the flop for free?

By the turn, the 2-5 is mucho good to the nit's 2nd best str8 with their A. I really, really like it when you give me the 76 here.

Let\'s talk practical Xmas gifts, not once in a lifetime longshots
 

I love Beachman42's play of 76o in the BB as the wheel buster. Stealth bomb baby, but not so much of a long shot as some of the posted Xmas hopes and dreams. I was looking for this "practical" list of solid but stealthy plays to help put more $ in our stockings. So put down the Needless Markup catalog and pick up Sears instead. After all, this is the small stakes board. Thanks for the views and responses. Happy Holidays to all, even the unrepentant anal retentive a'holes. (Is that redundant?)