getting AA Back to back for the first time and having this happen.


Merge - $0.50 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (UTG): 227.84 BB
CO: 100 BB (VPIP: 22.01, PFR: 9.43, 3Bet Preflop: 3.33, Hands: 644)
BTN: 167.18 BB (VPIP: 25.48, PFR: 20.23, 3Bet Preflop: 7.98, Hands: 790)
SB: 235.08 BB (VPIP: 45.99, PFR: 26.28, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 142)
BB: 39.2 BB (VPIP: 48.79, PFR: 14.49, 3Bet Preflop: 4.08, Hands: 219)

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A A

Hero raises to 3 BB, CO raises to 5 BB, BTN calls 5 BB, fold, BB raises to 39.2 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 36.2 BB, CO calls 34.2 BB, fold

Flop: (123.1 BB, 3 players) 8 Q 9
Hero bets 188.64 BB and is all-in, fold

Turn: (123.1 BB, 2 players) 4

River: (123.1 BB, 2 players) 5

Hero shows A A (One Pair, Aces)
(Pre 93%, Flop 91%, Turn 95%)
BB shows A Q (One Pair, Queens)
(Pre 7%, Flop 9%, Turn 5%)
Hero wins 116.26 BB


Hand 2

Merge - $0.50 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 304.9 BB
UTG: 100 BB (VPIP: 22.14, PFR: 9.58, 3Bet Preflop: 3.69, Hands: 645)
CO: 162.18 BB (VPIP: 25.61, PFR: 20.25, 3Bet Preflop: 7.95, Hands: 794)
BTN: 234.58 BB (VPIP: 45.65, PFR: 26.09, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 143)

Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1 BB) Hero has A A

UTG raises to 100 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, Hero calls 99 BB

Flop: (200 BB, 2 players) 6 A Q

Turn: (200 BB, 2 players) 2

River: (200 BB, 2 players) Q

Hero shows A A (Full House, Aces full of Queens)
(Pre 82%, Flop 98%, Turn 100%)
UTG shows K K (Two Pair, Kings and Queens)
(Pre 18%, Flop 2%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins 196 BB

Just find it so funny that villain was going for that fake tilt value shove and i got to snap it right off for the cooler of all coolers

not satisfying unless u give him the slowroll

haha i actually started it for about 5 seconds but then felt too bad

Ive got a good one...

1st holiday to vegas (im from UK) so a huge holiday really, 1st time to america. And your full aware this holiday could go 1 of 2 ways... win a lot or lose a lot. Like this isnt a normal holiday where you just go to the beach etc

Anyway at cash table a chinese kid who literally plays every hand. He limps pre then calls any raise within reason etc... every hand without fail.

I flop a set of 9s, top set, he checks i bet he calls. Turn he checks.. i bet, he calls. it is THIS feeling right here on the turn.

When you know <edit>the</edit> kid that plays every hand, youve flopped a monster and hes called your turn bet. You KNOW he has a hand which is obviously less than top set. ... Its a great feeling. Like.. more than flopping top set in normal poker. Youve gotta understand the other factors involved. Also he moaned and groaned on the turn too, making it even better.

Of course top set is always good. But combined with all the other things... like you want to win money on your 1st holiday to vegas, you want to do well, have a good time.... And you know full well <edit>the</edit> kid is about to pay for all of your excursions in Vegas lol. And of course he called me on the river and my set of 9s won a huge pot

Going on a trip, sitting down, winning a huge amount (like 3-4 BI's), and then just as the tables fishes leave, you and your buddies are all hungry at the same time "Dinner break in 20 minutes?". I'm thinking "yeah absolutely, let me just sit on the ball and run the clock out and feel like every fold I make from now on it a +$2000 fold". It is that feeling of clinching not only a winning session but being a heavy favorite to finish up big on the trip. But you're not 100% there yet, you may be 99,85%... set over set can happen, AA < QQ can happen.

One time I had JJ and had to fold to a monkey check-raising me on Txx with T7 no draw. We were both deep and I did not want to risk my stack on JJ when he can call only so much with AT and probably bluff weaker, while I could be dead to anything better.

Bet all 3 streets and show that lesson giving tard who loves calling down light the mortal nuts **** a slowplay

When on a Saturday night your wife/gf says you can go play

Even better is being a man and telling your wife/gf that you're going to play, like I just did.

I would imagine a stack of pillows with a mop head on top doesn't talk back about much at all, let alone about poker

I can't begin to explain the psychology behind wanting a live poker pro to lose (maybe someone can fill me in). I mean this is his full/part time job. He did put hundreds of hours learning the theory, math and other aspects of the game. He's probably not even enjoying himself like the tourists who already have wealthy businesses. He probably gets mentally exhausted sitting at a table for hours (just like an office job), except you're constantly paying attention, doing calculations, weighting your options and staying alert. And when the streak of 2-3 BI's of sickout do happen, the pro has to eat ramen and water, or stress out over bills. That 4BI upswing is taken into account as positive variance. The pro will not go have a steak at a 5-star restaurant or call in hookers or go throw that money at a strip club.

Yet we always feel a bit of joy in our gut when we see the table fish hit a backdoor straight for a 6 BI pot against the shark's top set, whom he was all but trying to give his money away to. Why is that? What's the psychology?

schadenfreude (scha·den·freu·de) noun - a feeling of enjoyment that comes from seeing or hearing about the troubles of other people (as defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary)

its not just poker, if your rival sports team makes the championship game against a team you don't care about, you will enjoy the shots of your rivals agony on the sidelines after they lose significantly more than you will enjoy the winning side's triumph.

Raising with a speculative have like 64, 68 and getting min 3 bet against the donk with a high pair, then stacking them when you flop the nuts

I'd like to think it's because as poker players, we know it's good for the game when fish walk away with 5BIs. They'll be back and back again. But I think there definitely is a little schadenfreude in there too.

A friend of mine who bikes into work was taking about this the other day. He just loves listening to the radio traffic report and nothing makes him happier than huge backups over bridges / in tunnels as he pedals freely into work. Ha! What a jerk

I get the same feeling of joy when it's pouring rain or blazing hot out and I'm comfortable and dry in my car.

The best feeling is when you are holding them stone cold nuddy buddys DEM NUTTER BUTTERS and you are sitting IP on the river and the first player goes all in and another player calls for a 6 BI pot and you know all you gotta do is say "call" to ship a monster pot and show them nuddy buddys to your opponents and watch them cry

when u make a ridiculous overbet with a monster that no one in their right mind would call, but u know for a fact that the moron who minbet the flop is going to call with his gutshot (and does)

Wife making me a poker cake... even though she hates poker!

LMFAO^

When the board shows Broadway, I "value bet" on the river, and both villains fold

That is sweet.

OMFG cry me a goddamn river. Why should anyone give a rat's ass about a poker player eating ramen and water when there are loads of dirt-poor single moms with deadbeat ex-partners who won't pony up even a hundred bucks a month to feed their babies who are splitting a portion a day of ramen and water with their mothers who are busting their asses off at the local 7-11 just to avoid being thrown out into the streets? Especially when that deadbeat probably just donked off another BI TO A POKER PRO AT THE LOCAL CHARITY ROOM!

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

And if you wonder why people like watching poker pros lose, go read NVG for a while.

$.50 NL
How good did you feel after winning a cheeseburger with aces against kings? Move up to where people respect your hand histories.

$50 can buy several cheeseburgers and I made me feel quite good.

two nights ago, was playing a 3.50 SNG (don't have exact HH as i'm on my work computer right now)

Board runs out
72372
I have JTo that I limped from the button (2-3 limpers b4 me)
I decide to bluff the river with a 55% PSB (bad play really, but I had a super tight image and thought it'd work at least half the time)
Got called by worse...

Hitting a live BBJ on a 1 outer was pretty damn good

Felting 3 other people in a multiway all-in watching the 3 other people reaching for the billfold while you're stacking up the chips

Ten handed in an MTT folded to villain in small blind whose short stacked n shoves, you call with Axsuited, it's good, eliminate him and get to the final table

Those are all pretty satisfying