Last night at the local card room a legendary hand occurred that will go down in my personal history books. After buying in for $300 at $1/$3 NLHE, running /playing well, I ran up a stack to ~$1,900 in about 5 hours. New players are allowed to buy into the game with half of what the largest stack is, so a couple hours and a few new players later there were a few of us with $1k stacks...and the game was deep.

Then this happened. It folds to me and I'm UTG + 2 with QQ. at a full ring game. I still have everyone covered. I raise to $15. Folds around to HJ who calls with ~$1,600 behind and the BB also calls with about $800 behind.

Flop comes QK4. I check to the HJ who bets $25. BB calls and I call. The vast majority of the time I'll lead or check/raise here with the flush draw on board, especially this deep, but I decided I would try and trap this particular opponent who I have some history with.

Turn is the 3. I check to the HJ and he bets $60. BB folds and for some reason he then turns over his hand. I see the K3 for 2 pair. I can tell from his reaction that he thought he had already won the hand when the BB folded. The dealer (and reaction of the table) let him know the hand isn't over yet. He quickly snatches up his cards. That all happens within about 5 seconds. After pretending to think for a bit, maybe trying to act like I have some sort of draw, I call.

The river is the 3, so he rivers a boat - kings full of 3's, but I have him beat with 3's full of queens. I check and he laughs and throws out $300 into a pot of $240. He has $1200 behind. I pretend to act like I forgot what he had. "Don't you have two pair? I thought you had King Four? Are you tilting? What did he have?". Nobody says anything, thankfully, and I don't give that much time and about 20 seconds after he bets I say "okay well I guess I'm all in" and he snap calls. I turn over the higher full house and he says "sick". He literally can't believe what just happened. He gets up and leaves after talking about the hand a few seconds further.

Not sure what’s worse, your “acting” or villain’s river bet.

This is a strat forum, so if you're just looking to share a cool hand that happened to you then this isn't really the place, although the chat thread is probably okay because it's a low content thread.

I'm not a fan of the slow-play on the flop, but check/calling the turn and checking the river after villain exposes his hand is just mind-numbingly awful, and you're really, really lucky villain is a moron who doesn't understand that he can only get bluffed or get action from better when he has a face-up hand. You absolutely must raise turn to set-up a river all-in and donk-shove river once you fail to do so.

Also be aware that your acting as described is a massive tell against any experienced player. It's fun to try as a reverse tell sometimes, though.

From a strat perspective this hand is butchered from both sides, but that just makes the story better. Nice hand.

Been a minute, but.... bbv that way >>>