Some pretty sick hands I've had/seen in last two months.
Limped to me in bb with 33 4 players I check. (everyone 100bb stack)
Flop is 322 checks around.
Turn is K, I lead 10 MP raises to 30 LP raises to 60 BTN calls, I ship calls in every spot.
River is A.
MP shows 23 LP shows K2 BTN shows AK. Scoop it!

I'm in MP with TT(100bb effective stacks) I raise to 10 get two callers, flop is QT5. Big blind leads for 25 I raise to 75 BTN ships bb calls I call.
Turn is 4 river is Q. BB shows QT Btn shows Q5 and I lose

raise 78ss is CO to $20. 3 callers (pot $85) (2/5 game)
flop 559ssx ( i flop str8flush draw)
checked around.
turn Jh
checked around.
river Qs
check check check, i bet $35
get checkraised to $170.
beating nothing but KT, I tank-fold.

donk shows me an expertly played A5. (<sarcasm)
argggg.
why do i give them credit for having any idea what they are doing?
when they raise, they are'nt thinking about what hand they beat that will call.
he slowplayed his hand, checked it 3 times, and then turned it into a bluff OTR, and outplayed me by mistake.

1/2 NL
Hero BB w/ KQ
Aggro drunk kid fish raises MP to $8 eff stacks ~$200
Hero calls HU to the flop
Flop ($17) k26
Villain bets $12 hero calls
Turn ($41) 8
Hero donks $2 villain raises to $25 hero tank calls
river ($91) 2
Hero donks $2 villain raises to $45 hero snap calls and reaches to scoop the $180 pot

Hilarious hand I was sitting next to a buddy and literally said watch this. I know that this guy is so aggressive that he cant stand to fold to $2 and he almost certainly has no hand that can call so his only option is to raise.

Had a heater over the course of about 6 hands last night at 1/2.

#1-I open AA EP and get 3 calls to see a flop of 7A7. Long story short, guy with ~150 had 78. Stacked villain #1.

#5-I iso KK from CO to get called by guy in MP who is a thinker and believes i'm super loose. Flop is T74, I cbet weakishly to induce a shove, he shoves, I call, see the turn A-T and he instamucks.

#6-I so KK again from LP, get called by a UTG limper to see a flop of J84. check-bet-call. turn J-check-check. 4 river, check, I bomb for like 1.5x pot, he snaps, I win.

Running good is easy.

kinda a cool hand. I bought in for my usual $500 at 1/2 and was down to like $300 b/c of some bad luck. I had direct position on a massive fish who had about $350. He doubled up so i instareloaded another $200 (this might of made me look like a dick but whatever) and next hand i end up flopping a set and winning a pretty big pot vs this opponent.

My BBV post for the year...

Playing 1/2 with 100 max bet (spread limit), as that's the max bet allowed by Colorado law. At anything below about 150BBs, this basically plays like NL. Not tonight. As I'm hanging around waiting for a seat, the floorman casually steers me towards table 7 if I want action. I go check it out. Five stacks are over $1K. I am finally seated at table six, but insta-request a table change from the brush as I am seating. About half an hour later a seat opens on the dream table.

Turns out there's a maniac opening/raising EVERY single pot between $20 and $35. then he pots every flop. And the table is "playing back at him" by limp calling and hoping to catch him. It's working occasionally, but he's making enough in between times that his stack remains gigantic. About $1200. I decide to play iso-reraise and embrace the variance.

My first opportunity comes OTB with AT. I only bought in for $250, planning to get a feel for the table and the dynamics of playing this deep kind of turning into limit post flop.So after maniac raises to $25, I repop the max to $125, knowing that I have his range crushed, but also knowing that I'm putting in the rest of my stack no matter what. Of course, that's pretty easy when flop comes AKTr.

Later I am deep enough to c/c for pot control (but never fold) if I have A-high or an underpair, or b/r if I have 2-Pair plus.

Brag: My hands are, in fact all ahead of V, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM HOLDS UP OR REDRAWS until I bust him. I don't get all of his money, but I take about $800 off him in about an hour.

Beat: I get Aces UTG, and limp, planning to re-pop his inevitable raise. For the first time in 6 orbits, he just overlimps, and my AA goes 6-ways and I have to fold to a "post-flop TAG's" raise on the turn on an all low, pretty dry board.

Variance: I won 12 cents playing the penny slots while I waited for a seat at the poker table. Ballin outa control continues.

Im in the BB with Qs5d with 4 other limpers

Flop ($10): AhKhJc
checked through

Turn: ($10): AhKhJcTc
I bet $2, someone raise to $30, female in the BTN shoves allin for $190, I fold

One shows QJo, the other shows KQo. They chop my $2...take my money bitches.


Brag: I can fold the nut straight on the turn.

Beat: The female was 50yo.

Variance: Spent all my night's winning on a hooker.

funny hand the other night

1/2NL
Hero ~300 stack (button): A5
V1 ~200 stack(drunk, loose guy):
V2 ~150 stack --(just weird guy, seems out of element).
v3 SB: ~ 300 stack.

V1 limps V2 limps, I call, SB raises to 15., V1 Calls, V2 calls. I call.

Flop: 10::2::4
Pot: $60.
V3 checks (?) V1, and V2 check, so I bet $30 on flush and gutter draws. V3 calls, V2 calls.
Turn: Pot: $150 9 (ca ching!). Its checked to me so I check.
River: brick, not spade, not ace. I really don't remember.
V3 (original raiser in SB), buts $60 V2 thinks for a bit and goes all in for $115. I happily go all in over the top.
V3 insta calls, and I show my cards while saying "nuts" . v3 curses, flips over KQ for second flush. Was REALLY pissed, later told me "nice hand, I just don't expect people to be betting there draws here (?)"

Here's the funny part. V2 grimaces, and SHOWS ACE DUECE OFFSUIT. WTF?

Later we were like, what was he thinking? Ace hi duece kicker, and I will bluff for $55 more into $210 pot?

Geeze, can't you read the board? He had a mighty pair of ducks! Of course he shipped. Mandatory, imo.

Since I've decided to basically play live full time until Xmas rather than actually find work, I thought I'd add a ridiculous hand of every session into this thread.

Partly just for the LOLs, of course, but I' also think it helps illustrate why a lot of the range analysis and suggested lines in the forum are really ridiculous, IMO. The players I (we?) are against simply are that bad.

So E2/4 (400max) game. Hand in progress as I sit down. Not sure of pre (probably limped, ldo)

Flop AT4 two tone. Bet E15 called in tow places
Turn K two flush draws. Bet E30 called in two places
River J no flush Bettor leads again for E50 and is called.

Bettor rolls over A2o as if it is the nuts, turns out he is right. Guy beside me moans he folded AJ on the river after the bet and call.

I think, boy this looks like a tough table, probably no value playing AQ UTG against these guys.

Second hand, I'm waiting for button to pass, limps 4 ways. BB shoves 120 into 16 on a 663 flop.

Venice, if this is too bloggy, just delete it. I know neither of the hands are that rare or interesting, but I think that is the whole point I am trying to make. These are the type of opponents I'm playing against every single day and it should influence all our decisions.

I smiled at this. ^^


Had a fun hand myself last session. 1/2 NL, 300 max buy-in. All players have at least 250 in front of them.

UTG limps, MP raises to 10, I call in CO with 44, BTN calls, blinds fold, limper calls.

Flop ($40 after rake) Ts9s2c
I'm thinking C/F, but both players check to me (including pf raiser), I figure he may have opened with high cards, so I bet 30 on a pure steal. BTN calls, UTG calls, MP (opener) sighs and folds.

Turn: ($130) Ts9s2c 6h: UTG checks, I see this fills the 78 draw and oh yea I can't even beat 3rd pair so I check, BTN checks.

I realize BTN is likely on spade draw and as I'm cursing myself for being a wuss for not barreling, the river card hits to fill the flush, the As. Happy now for being a wuss, UTG checks, I check, BTN sighs and checks? WTF?

I'd had a TAG image, and I have no interest in showing my "pure" bluff on the end since I've mentally surrendered this pot. We do the whole who's turn is it to show thing, dealer points to UTG who shows J8o for missed oesd... I sheepishly show my pair of 4s and BTN utters a string of profanities at himself for not betting river and tables QJo. Another decent player at the table smiles at me and says "You missed a value bet on that turn" and we both laughed a bit.

Again, a hand seen when waiting to get in the game.

3/6 Euro NLH uncapped

UTG lim9ps
UTG+2 (regfish with ~100BB) makes it 20E
MP (winner with horrid fundamentals, covers everybody) flats
BTN (fish with 25BB) flats
BB (good player 115BB) makes it 120. He is never trying to squeeze against these spastics, Reg fish doesn't open raise fold ever and his opening raise is pretty strong.

UTG fold
UTG +2 flats (almost certainly AK or JJ cause he jams the bigger pairs)
MP flats.
BTN moves all in for 30 more
All call.

Pot 600ish

Flop 678r

BB shoves
Regfish tankfolds,
MP snaps.

Turn 5

River 9.

BB shows AA
MP shows 67
BTN shows......................................59 for the most ridiculous chop ever.

[ ] can't profitably open AQ UTG in this game.

I was playing in a $1/$2 NL game last night when an interesting hand came up late in the session. I was setting with about $500 when I got 25ss dealt to me on the button. We were 5 handed and I had the table covered. The c/o limps and I limp behind because the game was playing relatively passive but the implied odds were great agains the limper who sat with about $300. The sb completes and the the bb knocks.

Flop comes down K82r. The sb leads $10 into the field, bb folds, c/o calls and I call.

Pot is $38.

Turn is a 2d putting 2 diamonds on the board. Sb bets $10, c/o raises to $35 and I re-raise to $75. s/b folds and the c/o thinks for a short period and then things get a bit more interesting...He shows me he has QTdd for a flush draw. I ask him if he wants me to show him a card and of course he takes me up on it so I turn over the 5s. He basically insta-shoves all in for another $180. I snap call and the river bricks off and my three 2s hold.

Wrong forum. You won't want to hear replies from this one.

so what do u want?

The way OP played this hand is entertaining.

I witnessed two funny hands today (NL 1/1)

1st hand:
First hand of the night:young fish(YG), which is obviously playing for his first or second time live vs aggro old drunk guy (DG). Eff stacks 50 (YG)

YG limps utg+1, 2 calls, DG co raises to 13, folds, YG calls.
flop K 5 5 r
YG checks DG bets 30 YG calls
turn J no fd
YG checks DG bets 7 YG calls 7 all in
river X

YG shows 34ss.

2nd hand:
fishy semi-reg (FR) vs randomp passive limp,c/c woman (W) who has 0 clue. Eff stacks 60ish (W)

FR makes it 4 pf, many calls, W calls otb
flop K 7 7 hh
all checks W bets 6, FR raises to 18, all fold, W calls .
turn K (board K K 7 7)
FR bets 24 W tanks and calls (leaving 15ish behind)
river 2
FR checks W checks

FR shows 52hh and wins, as W shows 44.

And they say the rake is unbeatable...

My favorite is I raise on the button after four limpers with pocket 8s to 17. 2 villians call, one a aggro asian kid who loves to bluff the other a fellow arab who will chase draws with the worst odds. Heroi 480
Vil 1-350
Vil 2i-220
Flop comes a 6 4 two hearts. Pot 64 dollars

Vil1 leads for 30, vil2 calls 30, hero raises to 95

V1 calls, vil2 calls. Oops. My plan was to push vil1 out of hand and if vil2 calls put him on fd than jam any non heart.

Turn 8of hearts. Checked to me? I check behind.

River 8 of diamonds. So I go runner runner quads than v1 and v2 both proceed to shove. I snap call.

V1 had air I think maybe ace rag, he never showed, v2 has 45 of hearts for a flush.

So I made the right read, but it turned out well for all the wrong reasons.

hope i can get this hand right. i wasn't involved.

villain 1 is a younger african-american who has come to gamble. went all-in on the flop with 66 after being 3-bet pre. board had at least one face card. his hand was good.

villain 2 seemed non-descript until this hand.

v1 raises from MP to like $17 (he liked big raise); v2 calls from the SB.

flop is 752 with two spades. v2 bets, v1 raises, v2 calls.

turn is a J ... v2 bets, v1 calls.

river is an A. (no flush). v2 bets like $50 and v1 shoves for about $200 more. v2 snap calls.

hands? lol. v2 shows a busted Q high flush draw AND CALLED THE ALL-IN. v2 shows 8 high for a busted straight draw (86) ... it was a great bluff and a sicker call.

could you have made it, no matter how hyperaggressive v1 was?

OK
I've one WTF from some weeks ago.

spewy fish reg (SF) in MP, vs random tourist fish (T) in SB.

4 limps.
Flop K T 5 rainbow

SF bets everyone folds except T in seat 10 who calls, but this goes unnoticed to SF who proudly shows his J4o.
Floor is called, ruling is that SF plays his hand face up on later street, and can only check or call.

Turn 9
SF almost already had his trash in the muck but T proceeds to check (!), so he checks back.

River Q
T looks at SF's cards, thinks, and bets half the pot.
Everyone laughs, SF says "ok let's split", calls.

T shows QTo.

Hero 3bets villain preflop. Villain goes all in, hero snap calls.

Hero shows A A
Villain shows A A

Villain says "I guess we should just take our chips back"
Hero jokingly says "No, I'm gonna hit a flush"
Flop, turn, and river are all hearts.

Same orbit, I turned a full house, lost to a runner runner quads.

I want to cry.

Casino 5/10

Villain 1 (1.5k) is playing tight -mid 30's looking and I am pretty sure is a reg at 5/10

Villain 2 (1.5k) is the table mark- playing weak tight overall and loose passive pre-

Hero (2k) is playing TAG and is known to the regs at the table as a good reg (at least I hope so)

Villain 3 (2k) is a attractive korean lady 30 ish, who is a reg and one of the better players at the table

PRE-

Villain 1 raises to 40 UTG+1; Villain 2 calls from MP; Hero calls from CO with QJ; Villain 3 calls from the SB

FLOP (170): QAT

Villain 3 checks; Villain 1 bets 100; Villain 2 raises to 300; Hero calls 300; Villain 3 calls 300; Villain 1 folds

Turn (1170): 7

Villain 3 checks; Villain 2 checks; Hero checks (in a vacuum I should bet here imo)

River (1170) 5

Villain 3 checks; Villain 2 bets 100 (lol); Hero raises to 600; Villain 3 folds; Villain 2 folds;

During the entire time I was debating my raise on the river, supposedly Villain 3 was holding her cards in a position to fold (I didn't see) Villain 2 did and starts losing his s&*t yelling about it after I made my raise...I think he is yelling at me and am very confused... Villain 2 ends up tilting so much that he folds pocket QQ's face up on the table...I rake pot and immediately go into super nice guy mode as no-one wants the fish to leave (FTR i think he was right I was worried that Villain 2 might see my obvious steal and go for a c/3-bet (yes i know her bet reps pretty much nothing, but so did my raise) but I honestly never saw her action so...)

So in conclusion LOL live poker, and the old I rep nothing but I'm going to put more money in the pot because your weak-tight and just can't help yourself and will fold bet.

You must have put the suits wrong because you said "steal" but you have 2nd nuts.