In computer simulations, Q7 won exactly 50% of the time against ATC.

You're correct in why it's called the "computer hand". People have taken that and ran with it/misapplied it. It has nothing to do with being the holding that wins the most in online poker hands.

I'm looking forward to it: I've only got one year to go. But I've quit playing live in casinos. (The closest one to me is 1 hour plus and I hate the drive back at 3 a.m.) Now it's just home games and some medium O8 on Stars.

Lol, I think I'm exactly on pace for this even though I got out of the gates really well.

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Had this exact exchange as well, except they thought it was Q8. The dealer and every player at the table, including a live reg who considers himself some kind of god of poker, insisted that Q8 is the computer hand because it wins the most money online. I tried explaining why Q7 is the computer hand, but they weren't having any of it.

Where are you guys playing that people are this ******ed? I'd kill to sit in a game where half the table thinks Q7 is the best hand online hahaha

Problem is they know it isn't the best hand for live poker. They are well aware that T5o is the best live.

There's a guy at my local room who will argue to the death that 108o is the best live hand. He says it flops a piece of basically every board.

@degenx California 2/3 and 3/5 tables are full of people who think like this

When someone at my table accidentally folded T5o face-up, I tried to convince them that it's a great hand for all the usual reasons - it can make every straight (except 9 high) and TWO different flushes - and also because the Ten is one of the 5 best cards in all of poker.

A few levels into a home game, five or six loose players in the hand, SB min raises pre-flop, everyone calls. Flop is 555, SB shoves just under a starting stack. BB calls with the other five. SB says, "I figured my full house would beat ace high."

I agree, thin value betting is pretty absurd

Funny thing is a used to really enjoy the occasional aggro play with a suited gapper and at one point played a session where I was dealt Q9s a bit more than ordinarily and that volume got me to realize I was really overplaying Q9s more often than not, love the hand but was playing it way too frequently and aggressively.

Wondered if this was a leak I needed to address and sure enough I was indeed playing it super aggro, about same as in it were AJs/AQo/99/TT type hand but miraculously was up about 19bb/100 on it. This was in a data set of over 300k overall hands too. Wish I still had that laptop as I could post a screenshot but it definitely taught me a huge lesson about the mind's propensity for donk play on specific hands due to prior subconscious success.

Never looked at specific hands too much prior to that but it really got me to really look at leaks more specifically, even looking for things that I thought I was way too advanced and knowledgable to ever fall for but while grinding out a dozen tables at a time you don't really pay attention to all those Q9s 3bs when they appear every once in a while.

I'm also pretty sure prior to that I may have stated a few times that Q9s was my favorite hand.

The fact that SB didn't consider that someone might have quads is pretty LULZy.

First to act with a table full loose players I would have thought someone might have an ace five. Big blind with 45d took it. I would understand if SB put out a continuation bet and see who stuck around.

A lady at my 2/5 table made a pretty funny hero fold to me last night.

I had AJs UTG+1 and went heads up against the small blind. SB was a loose-passive calling station who I saw call a river check raise with the wheel when there was one card to a higher straight and one card to a flush.

Flop is K82 rainbow. Checks to me, I cbet for half pot. Villian tanks and tanks and finally folds K10 face up. She tells me, "Any other player I would raise, but I'm going to fold to you." At this point in the night I hadn't shown down a winner and had been called down on a bluff a few hands earlier, so I have no idea where her respect for me came from, but I'll take it.

Many people don't understand ranges vs just putting opponent on a specific hand because their gut tells them this.

I have a few things that all happened at the same 2/5 table.

On the flop seat 8 bets $15, seat 1 raises to $50 out of turn. Seat 9 calls $15 after a short think, the raise stands, it folds back around to seat 9 who folds and says he changed his mind.

There is a raise preflop, fish calls and sees a flop of T93r. Pfr c-bets, fish raises, pfr 3-bets. Fish now goes into the tank and says "you either have jacks or a bluff... it's jacks or nothing." He eventually folds.

UTG+1 opens to $30, gets three calls, BB 3-bets to $225, the last cold caller in MP calls. Flop T93r and BB bets $275, MP calls. Turn pairs the T, still rainbow, and BB bets $675, MP shoves all in for $2275, BB takes 3 seconds and calls. MP has Q9, BB has AJ!! BB says that was a sick range merge.

LOL

"You can't bluff tight players cuz they only call w the nuts." Naturally his buddy nods in agreement.

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Nice one.

this story may not be quite fair...but whatever

2-4 limit @ Orleans. My brother and I are engaged in an epic drunken blind lhe battle (is there any other way to play low lhe?). He has raised the button, blind, every opportunity for the past three hours. He has taken each hand to showdown and has yet to reveal a 'raise-worthy' holding. He blames poor luck. He is stuck two racks. I am only stuck 1.5 racks...so I am currently 'winning'.

Enter new player, sits into BB, I am utg and talking crap about my brother's holdings, his skill leveling, his weak bet-call strat. Brother raises the button, sigh, I advise the new player in the BB to at least call.

"He has nothing." Laughter around the table, including the dealer. "Seriously, he's been raising w crap all night." More giggles. Big blind informs me that if the button raised, "He must have a good hand." At this point I notice that my brother has only one card. "Hey dealer! I need another card!" My brother makes quite a show of the fact he has an incomplete hand.

"It's one player to a HAND, not one CARD per player", I chirp. Dealer tosses him his second card. "See. " I say to BB, "He is literally raising you with air." BB considers my comment, pauses, then mucks.

"He raised, so must have a good hand.", BB reasons. Table groans.

Stated in a more logical way it makes more logical sense.
Something like "it's hard to bluff tight players because they only see the flop with strong hands, therefore they probably still have a strong hand and won't fold."

Really bad fish gets upset after losing a hand and berates the dealer before the leaving. Guy next to him says to the dealer,

"It makes no sense for people to berate you like that. It's the auto-shuffler's fault they get bad cards. If you were actually shuffling them then it would be your fault, but you just deal, so it's the shuffler's fault they lose, not yours."

^ Gold, solid gold.