By Podiman on December 1st, 2006 (more posts by author)

So was playing the $3/$6 on PS the other day when this doozy came up. The MP2 player was Loose-Agressive, playing too many pots, and betting hard on everything. if people missed, they would fold and not play back at him. He had gone to the river a few times and shown some marginal hands.

We are 7 handed and he raises to $18, standard 3x raise, the Button calls, and I have QQ in the SB. Raise? Call? I decided to raise to $50 as MP2 could have anything including AJ - Ax, and since the Button just called, I figured he would fold to a raise and had just called with a marginal hand to see the flop.

Let me just say now, I screwed this hand up good and got lucky. Don't think I don't know it!

MP2 raises me to $150, the button folds (as expected) and I go all in and he called...


PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $6 BB (7 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

BB ($300)
UTG ($322.20)
MP1 ($330.95)
MP2 ($375.90)
CO ($184.40)
Button ($934.85)
Hero ($783.90)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q:club:, Q:spade:.
[color:#666666][i]2 folds[/i][/color], [color:#CC3333]MP2 raises to $18[/color], [color:#666666][i]1 fold[/i][/color], Button calls $18, [color:#CC3333]Hero raises to $60[/color], [color:#666666][i]1 fold[/i][/color], [color:#CC3333]MP2 raises to $150[/color], Button folds, [color:#CC3333]Hero raises to $783.9[/color], MP2 calls $225.90 (All-In).

At this point I feel like i screwed up, as he may be LA, but he wouldn't call my all-in without a monster. And I am right, he has AA. But... the poker gods decided to shine on me...


Flop: ($1183.80) 8:diamond:, Q:diamond:, 5:spade: [color:#0000FF](2 players, 1 all-in)[/color]

Flopped top set! Here's the sick part... Had I just called the $18, the button would have seen the flop too, and he said after he laid down KK. If I just call, MP2 is first to act and would most likely bet the pot $54. the Button with his KK would def. re-raise, to??? $150? that would make sense, cause a min-raise of $100 is to cheap. At which point I could have re-re-raised (or just called, hard to say right now what I would have done then), but point being that I lost money on this hand (Button's re-raise), by betting him off the hand.

Turn: ($1183.80) 5:club: [color:#0000FF](2 players, 1 all-in)[/color]

River: ($1183.80) Q:heart: [color:#0000FF](2 players, 1 all-in)[/color]

And just to kick a man when he is down, QUADS just for shits and giggles.

Final Pot: $1183.80

Results:
MP2 has Ac Ad (two pair, aces and queens).
Hero has Qc Qs (four of a kind, queens).
Outcome: Hero wins $1183.80.