best hand you've ever played

[mzdadoc 0]

I can't say it was the best hand but it was my most profitable.The previous hand I had pocket K's cracked and showed them to the table after losing to runner runner flush. The very next hand I got dealt pocket K's again and the flop came K 5 7 rainbow. I was checked to and decided to bet out figuring I wasn't going to get any action with only two other players still in. Maybe not the right play but it's what I did.....First to act folds and guy in seat 10 raises. I was a little confused so I called. The turn came and it was a blank and he bets out I raise he calls.The river comes another blank and I'm really liking my set of K's.He bets I raise and he re-raises again. I look down at him and seeing the board and not good at reading players but I have the best hand. I re-raise and he does again. I take him all the way down to his last chip (This is LHE)and he calls all in with his remaining chips. He turns over a set of 5's and I turn over the set of K's he just sank in his chair and couldn't believe I had pocket K's 2 x's in a row.mzdadoc

[Odominator 0]

Ive got a couple hands that i smile just thinking about sometimes. Possible my favorite was when I was playing in a live tournament with some a bunch of people at UCLA. So im in the sb with K 10 off and some guy limps and i call and the bb check. So the flop comes 74Q and it gets checked around. Next card is a 5 and so I take a stab at the pot with maybe 1/3 the pot. BB calls and other limper folds. Now i put him on a draw bigtime and I figure that hes either got 6 or a 3 so if no 2 3 or 8 comes Im probably clear. So the next card is a 4 to pair the board and I am almost positive that he missed his draw and will bet if I check. So I check and he fires out like 2/3 of the pot and I call pretty quickly and he mucks his 23. I flip over my K high and it felt soooo good. The other one that I really like is a hand in Omaha HL in a casino 4-8. I was playing like A254 or some awesome hand and its like 5 handed. so the board somes 85Q and its probably 3 bet. Turn comes with 4 people seeing it and it comes a K and its 2 bet and now 1 of the people is all in. Ive got position on the last card and it comes an ok looking 2. So now ive got 2nd nut low and 2255k for my high and its checked around. So I value bet my hand for high and low for some reason because thats just how i roll and get one caller. Caller flips up AA for high and i scoop that massive 16$ sidepot. Just felt real nice.

[FlipFlopper 0]

This may seem like a strangely played hand, but it was my favorite no-limit hand due to the perfect read I had and the fact that there was only 1 way for me to win it. $1-$2 no-limit. I have about $50 in from of me and was in the BB with QJs. There's a raise to $8 and 1 other caller (caller was a weak player who would continually call with any draw), so I make the call.Flop comes up K-10-x, so I'm open ended (plus have backdoor flush draw). I lead out for around $15. I know the weak player will call, and if the flop missed the original raiser, he may fold. Unfortunately, both players call.The turn is another blank, and I only had $28 left. I felt like another bet could push the original raiser off the hand (like he had a medium pocket pair or something) seeing as he didn't raise the flop. I also really felt the weak player was on a draw and put him on AQ or AJ. I want to push him off his gutshot, but I know if I push all-in, he may call with a 4-out draw. In that case, I knew that he'd still win the hand if I didn't catch. I'd also seen that he layed missed draws down on the river to bets that were very small compared to the pot size. So I bet $20 of my last $28. The weak player calls, the original raiser folds, just like I had thought. Leaving $8 behind in a pot that will have almost $100 looks ridiculous to most players, but this guy was clearly inexperienced and had no concept of odds. He only played his cards. He would chase, and bet if he hit, and fold if he missed. He called my $20 bet reluctantly, and when a blank came on the river, I confidently stated "all in", tossed the $8 inot the $100 pot, and he showed me the AJ and threw it in.This was my favorite hand ever, because I had dead reads on both players, knew I had the worst hand, and knew there was only one possible way to win the hand. I had to push the raiser out with big bets, but keep something behind to bluff on the river with to get the chaser out.

[mosley 0]

this one just happened on everest: 10 person .25/.50 NL, most people around $40-$60. i wake up UTG+1 with AA. loose table, someone will raise and i plan to reraise, so i smooth call. UTG+3 makes it 3.50, one caller and i bump it to $15. original raiser calls and we see the flop: K A K i have a gnawing feeling that he may have KK, but hope for AK as i pot bet, leaving me with just a couple of bucks. he takes about 15 seconds to call (long enough for two players to comment on my bet and his options) and puts me all in. i call and he shows KK. turn peels off...............the A!!! i made my one outer and scooped the $105 pot just before thanking him (sw) for the slow roll.

[golgotha666 0]

Ok, well I guess my favourite hand was a krablar moment.Was playing in that Degree Poker Championship thing in Niagara Falls. Some donkstar with a decent-sized stack tries to bluff with the krablars against A J and got punished for it..The very next hand, I pick up our friend the K 3 off in the SB. Seeing as it was folded to me, I figured I'd put him all in.. he instacalled with J 6 and off he left. This was 10 minutes after he started bragging about how they interviewed him to be on tv.. Needless to say, his clip didn't make the cut..Goooooooooo krablars!

[DaBruins 0]

2/5NL game at a local card room. I'm in SB with 6s-6cearly position raises to $15, 3 callers and me. 5 to the flopFlop 6d-Qh-6hCheck from me, bet, raise, calls all the way around.Turn 10c , I check bet from original raiser, late pos moves in, I "deliberate", and call. Original raiser folds. He asks if I have 2 pair and I nod. He says, "I still have outs" He flips over Ah-Kh....I show him my "two pair", 6's and 6's. The table burst into laughter. He ships me $250...on top of a $150 pot

Don't steal lines from "maverick" and don't slowroll, it's mean and rude.

he didn't slowroll, there was a player behind him who could possibly call the all-in. Any aware participant would've done the same IMO.As for the other poster who asked what was the kicker to the King high - that would be considered a dick move - but if you're a beginning player you might not notice that king high means king high.

[Stiles2004 0]

Only do any serious playing online, and because it's rigged I can't show off too much...Playing 3 handed SNG on party, already in the money... get QJ spades in BB and reraise all-in to steal... BB calls with QQ so I'm in a load of trouble... AK3 spades flop sure helped, and the 10 on the turn was cool tooFlopped quad queens twice, and neither time got paid off... quad aces off the flop however was cool tooStraight flush versus Ace high flush, paid off about 100 bucks on 1-2NL

[bobbywithani 0]

2/5NL game at a local card room. I'm in SB with 6s-6cearly position raises to $15, 3 callers and me. 5 to the flopFlop 6d-Qh-6hCheck from me, bet, raise, calls all the way around.Turn 10c , I check bet from original raiser, late pos moves in, I "deliberate", and call. Original raiser folds. He asks if I have 2 pair and I nod. He says, "I still have outs" He flips over Ah-Kh....I show him my "two pair", 6's and 6's. The table burst into laughter. He ships me $250...on top of a $150 pot

Don't steal lines from "maverick" and don't slowroll, it's mean and rude.

he didn't slowroll, there was a player behind him who could possibly call the all-in. Any aware participant would've done the same IMO.As for the other poster who asked what was the kicker to the King high - that would be considered a dick move - but if you're a beginning player you might not notice that king high means king high.

I mean't the slowrolling by saying he had two pair.

[gerrety 0]

was playing $100NL at commerce, blinds of $2/$3. it was late saturday/early sunday, and i had been seeing a strong run of cards - had around $700 in front of me. there were 3 armenian guys at the table, speaking in armenian, complete dead money and would draw out runner-runner every hand if they could. from mid position, i had KJ, 4 people limp; flop comes K J Q rainbow - it gets checked to me, i bet out $25, 2 callers. turn J, checked through, river 10. the biggest fish at the table bets out $50 (a huge bet, clearly indicating he made broadway with Ax). i almost immediately raise him the top rack of my stack (about $300), and he ponders for a minute and then calls! i show my jacks full, and he mucks his hand. i didn't do anything spectacular, but it was a good one also my biggest one night win at that limit, somewhere around $1300.

[skipeddoda 0]

playing 5-10-20 plo at caesars indiana im sitting on a 10k stack. limp in with kkxx one suit world class plo player named adeeb raises pot 3 callers to me i call flop comes k32 rainbow checked to me i bet pot adeeb calls as does 1 other player. turn is 10 putting 2 spades on board checked to me i bet pot adeeb folds other guy calls. river is Q guy bets 3k into me i looked at him and said if u called all that $ and backed into straight congratulations i think u have low wrap cards or smaller set i call. he mucked immediately small wrap cards it was. roughly 9k pot ship it boys lol

[AshleyC 0]

Playing my biggest live tourney to date I was moved to a table with Dave Colclough, former European Player of the Year, 6 WSOP final tables; about half the tournament field had been eliminated. On my 1st BB, it was folded round to him on the button who raised 3x the BB to 6k. I had about 30k, he had about 50k. I looked down at pocket 9s. If I called I would be out of position and wouldn't know where I stood if any overcards fell. As an aggressive player he could have anything. I felt that if I folded it was give him free license to pick on me in the future, so to send a message to him and the table, I moved all in on him. Due to his skill level I didn't think that he would take a coin flip with AQ for example. If he called and lost he'd be crippled. He studied me for a while and then folded, increasing my stack by 30% ; and didn't raise my blind for the next few circuits before I was moved table. It wasn't the most sophisticated move, but it was such a rush making a move against a great player in the biggest tournament I've ever played.

[TraptSteve 0]

One of my favorite hands was one that I hit a gutshot with (lol).This guy I was playing a lot of 1-2 nl holdem with raised 13 preflop. I called as did another person. I had some medium cards... 9-7 or something.The flop comes 8-8-5 rainbow. I check as does the other guy. The preflop raiser makes a bet of 30. I call her and the OTHER guy folds. Turn = 6My opponent bets 70 and I immediately raise all-in. He takes a long time deliberating... talking to me. He says, "I think I know what you have..."After 2 minutes he calls with A-Q and I show him the STRAIGHT. He gets up from the table... disgusted saying "Nice 30 dollar call w/ the gutshot".I know I am going to receive flame, but here is my reasoning.- I've played with him before and was confident his 30 dollar bet was a continuation bet with overcards. Having position on him, I decided to call the bet w/ the intention of taking the pot away w/ a raise if I didn't get help on the turn.- This was set up by previous plays: Checking raising all in on the turn w/ ace-high one hand and showing him it after he folded... Checking raising all-in on the flop w/ A-K (he called with A-J)Now, had I known he was going to fire a 70 dollar bet on the turn... it would have been tough to raise all-in there. I would have had a tough decision had I paired my 7 or 9. That's why I just hit my gutshot. He must have had me on A-7

[borbel46 0]

My favorite hand and biggest i have ever played came a month ago at my local 1-3 Nl holdem game with a 200 buy in. I have about 600 and called 15 from the small blind with 88 the raiser had about 1500 the flop came 8 5 5 and i checked he checked as well. The turn was a 5 for a 8 5 5 5 board and i check raised hes 15 dollar bet to 45 he made it 145 and i just called the river was a 3 and i checked he bet a 100 a looked sick when all my chips went ito the pot he called and threw up two 10's.

[BigDMcGee 3,352]

So I play 4-8 at this local casino, and I play with this one guy, who's an okay player.  he plays tight, and somewhat aggressvie. His biggest problem is that he tilts like crazy when he gets beat by ugly cards.  If not for thjat, he'd proablly be a pretty good player. Not quite aggressive enough, but okay.   I have played with him for proably 100 hours or more, so  I know him very well.   He's in the big blind, I'm on the button, it gets folded to the c-of who calls ( a terrible, LAG player), and I have j-8 suited,  on the button,  so I call ( I make very loose button calls in unraised pots in this game).sb folds, bb checks.Flop comes down 467 rainbow.  bb checks, co checks, I bet, trying to steal the pot, thinking it was orphan.  BB check raises, and I am like, okay, that's bad... co calls, and I call, with the intention of folding unless I improve on the turn.The turn pairs the 6. The bb checks.Now, this check here is what the whole hand was about. This check puzzled the censored out of me. There was literally no hand I could think of that he would check in this situation, other than a draw, that was a hand he would check raise with.  I knew him. I knew he'd bet overpair, a seven, trip sixed, a straight sevens full and fours full  in this situation. He wasn't THAT tricky of player,  he wouldn't have gone for the check raise twice.   Either he had quads, or he had a draw, is what flashed through my mind..  The Co Checked, and I slowly checked, as I was thinking, puzzled.The river was a duece. No flush, no nothing. The duece completed no draw.  The BB bet out again, and the CO folded.   I thought about it some more.   I didn't think he'd check raise wit hace high on that board or big cards, without having a flush draw.  He's isn't aggressive enough to C/R with ace high, and hif he had it, he'd have checked on the end, I think.    The more I thought about it, the more I thought he had to have 98.  it was one of theose either/or situations. either he hand 98, or he had the absolute nuts. So I called him. He said " you win.. " but didn't muck his hand.  I said" Muck your hand, then.." and he said " if you can't beat this, you have problems.." and fliped over 98..... I said" that's exactly what I thoguth you had, and flipped over my jack high.. the dealer, a good player ( like the only dealer I've ever met who's a good player) and a friend of mine was like " What the HELL!!!" and the guy couldn't  believe that I called, literally couldn't believe it. He went on wicked tilt after that, saying stuff like " keep calling me with jack high"...I've never called anyone with king high before, much less jack high.  But the reason this is my favorite hand, is because I was really aboe to use logical analisyis of the player and his plays throughout the hand, to dictate my decision to call on the end. I know that in general that callign with j8 is - ev,  and I've been flamed before talking about this hand. but this was the hand that made me believe I knew what the hell I was doing in poker, that I knew how to read people, and read actions and boards and play.  It's given me amazing amount of confidence in myself.

isn't this pretty much the exact story Doyle gave on his best ever hand?

Nope, here's doyle's story.. the flop is king 87 doyle, moss and another dude are in the pot ( the game is no limit) Doyle had j10 the first dude makes a weak beat, moss in the blind calls, doyle calls. Turn comes blank, check, check, check. At this point, doyle puts the dude on a weak king, and moss on a draw. on the river comes another blank, and moss makes a huge over bet at the pot, which doyle thinks is way out of line. He also knows the guy behind him can't over call with his weak king, so he calls moss's bet, the dude folds, and moss shows 109.it differs from my story in several repects. First, there was still another player to act when doyle called on the river, making his play extra brillant. Two, the game was NL, and he had to call a much large bet than I did, making his call more gutsy. and 3, it was for much, much more money. The only similarity is we called what we thought were busted straight draws with jack high.

[BigDMcGee 3,352]

Happened yesterday.  I laid down a set of queens face up in a 1/2 limit cash game, and told the guy I knew he had hit his set of aces on the turn.It wasn't a great laydown.  I think that any reasonable limit player would've picked up that this guy had aces in the hole.  I hit my queen on the flop and capped it, but then the ace came on the turn and I laid it down.

ummmm yeah.. I don't know that this is true. Did NO possiblity of AK, under set, AQ, or kk exist? I think if you felt that strongly he had AA, that you just should have called him down. How can you be that sure of ANYTHING in 1/2? I think this is a terrible lay down, way worse than the 10 10 lay down.

Maybe you've never played on UB, but people only cap preflop with AA in the 1/2 game.

You are the stupidest man alive.

[Royal_Tour 0]

Happened yesterday.  I laid down a set of queens face up in a 1/2 limit cash game, and told the guy I knew he had hit his set of aces on the turn.It wasn't a great laydown.  I think that any reasonable limit player would've picked up that this guy had aces in the hole.  I hit my queen on the flop and capped it, but then the ace came on the turn and I laid it down.

ummmm yeah.. I don't know that this is true. Did NO possiblity of AK, under set, AQ, or kk exist? I think if you felt that strongly he had AA, that you just should have called him down. How can you be that sure of ANYTHING in 1/2? I think this is a terrible lay down, way worse than the 10 10 lay down.

Maybe you've never played on UB, but people only cap preflop with AA in the 1/2 game.

You are the stupidest man alive.

LOL.. i love Littleweiner sometimes. hahahahah, nice.its so simple yet so effective

[BigDMcGee 3,352]

It's funny 'cause it's true. That is the worst play I've ever heard of. Way worse than folding top full house. Worse than open farrelloing. It's seriously dementedly bad.

[ForRealDD 0]

Maverick is a hell of a movie, and I do occasionally slow roll ....Sorry, I like the dramatic effect

If you ever slow roll in a home game and dont get invited back, dont ask why.I cant stand people who slow roll, you won the hand, you know you did, so turn your god damn cards over and shut up.Also, your two pair 6's and 6's is a beginners idea of a cool line at the poker table.No one uses it, its lame. Its been done before, get some new material and stop censored people off with ur slow roll propaganda

Only beginners can say two pair for quads eh ? Didn't realize that. Thanks though . Not sure if you play a any local underground games, but most tend to be friendly enough to slowroll for a laugh every now and them. Pull your panties out of your crack and smile once in a while.

[Sims4Short 0]

2/4 NL short handed game on FTI'm in BB with 10c-8cfolded around to button (been playing very aggressive) who raises 4x the BB, small blind folds and I decide to defend because this guy has been raising my blind all day, figured if I could hit a flop I could take a good portion of this guys stack Flop 8h-8d-4c $34 in the pot, I hit trips so I had to decide if checking or betting was going to get me more money, I would normally check and smooth call hoping for a check raise on the turn/river, but I knew this guy loved to set up bluffs and figured if I bet I'd get a reraise or at least a check raise from him on the turnSo I bet $18 into the pot and button calls right away, which made me think maybe he had an over pair or just thought his ace was good. Turn brings the 6d, (8h-8d-4c-6d) I check hoping he thinks he has the green light, but he just checks right behind me... normally I wouldn't think nothing of this, but this was unorthodox for how this guy had been playing all day, this guy was easy to read because he would play aggressive every hand until he had a monster and then he would try and trap which made it very obvious.So now I'm thinking maybe he has pocket 4's or 6's or maybe a better 8. I'm still not sure what to put him on, but I'm being very careful even though I think there is a good chance I have the best hand.The river brings the 10d, my money card (that's not an 8 of course), I have 8's full of 10's and I know I have the best hand unless the cosmos handed this man the remaining 10's in the deck and if that's the case I'm going broke either way.The pot has $72 in it and I know this guy has a hand... I just know he has something and that he thinks he has been slow playing me. So I check to him and he fires out a value bet of $35. I took a chance by checking, but I figured he would bet it for me which he did. So I take my time and I reraise the pot which is $107 right now. So the pot has $214 in it and the guy starts acting a bit saying in chat asking me if I have it and that he's willing to find out... couple more seconds and he goes all in for his remaining $242. I can't call fast enough. He flips over 8s-6h for 8's full of 6's and has nothing to say at all. He just gets up from the table. At the time it was the biggest pot I had ever raked in at a little under $700.Looking back on the hand I was really pleased with my play. I knew that the button had been playing very aggressive and it was almost automatic for him to raise there if it had been folded around to him. I decided to play a medium hand hoping to hit a flop hard and take him to the bank. What I hoped for happened and I hit trips on the flop. I bet on the flop when I had the best hand. I checked on the turn when he outdrew me and then when I outdrew him on the river I took his entire stack. At no time did I bet when I was behind in the hand. Reminds me of the hand Hoyt played against Hellmuth which he described as the best hand he had ever played.

[Royal_Tour 0]

Maverick is a hell of a movie, and I do occasionally slow roll ....Sorry, I like the dramatic effect

If you ever slow roll in a home game and dont get invited back, dont ask why.I cant stand people who slow roll, you won the hand, you know you did, so turn your god damn cards over and shut up.Also, your two pair 6's and 6's is a beginners idea of a cool line at the poker table.No one uses it, its lame. Its been done before, get some new material and stop censored people off with ur slow roll propaganda

Only beginners can say two pair for quads eh ? Didn't realize that. Thanks though . Not sure if you play a any local underground games, but most tend to be friendly enough to slowroll for a laugh every now and them. Pull your panties out of your crack and smile once in a while.

Slow roll as a joke to your buddy for 10 bucks?. ya, thats fine, i'm guilty of that also. Friendly games are completely differentBut you make it sound as if you're slow rolling in NL cash games.and the last place i wanna slow roll someone is at a underground cash game with people i hardly know.

[Razor 0]

Played some limit the other night and this idiot slow rolled every damn pot he won. Don't slow roll anywhere, not even with your friends for $10 bucks. Show boat sure, tell him/her how bad they are when you suck out, fine ... but please don't slow roll!It just plain fucking sucksEDIT:Unless of course you're playing against me, and you want me to tilt off all of my money to you. But that's really no way to make friends.

[celtic020 0]

I agree with Royal, my favourite hands are ones where I call a bluff with garbage.1.There's this one guy at my home game who's a real slider, and he's super censored about his play, thinks he's the best tourny player around. So one day, 3 handed in a small 10 man tourny, I raise from the SB with AJ (forget blinds and stacks) and he calls from the BB. flop comes down QQ10. I check, and he immediaty moves all in. I think for like 3 seconds, look him straight in the eye and say "I call, Ace High". He sheepishly turns over his 98 off and leaves without saying a word after not improving on the turn or river.2. $50 tourny with rebuys at a local casino. This guy who looks like he's 14 get's moved to my table. After watching this guy for a few hands, I know he's awful, but he thinks he's Moneymaker. It's folded to me in the SB, and I make a standard raise with KQ off. He calls, and the flop comes J 7 2. I make a continuation bet, and he proclaims to the table "I'M ALL IN", and then proceeds to lean on the table towards me, giving me the stare down. I give a little chuckle, and then call, flipping over my K high. His face turns the colour of a ripened tomato as he turns over his 10 4. Loved the look on that kids face, haha.

Ive played tons of poker in the last three years. I really didnt have a favorite hand until recently because I usually play like a robot just to turn a small profit at the end of the night. In my home game, there is this guy that is a real maniac. He never slows down, bets every card, plays every hand, but he can be sneaky too. He is a bad player but sometimes does well due to his hyperaggressive style. Anyway, I have K 2 of clubs on the button and I raise his big blind. He calls. No surprise at all. Flop comes down 9 6 4 rainbow with no clubs. He checks, I bet about 2/3 of the pot, and he immediately moves all in!! Normally I would muck immediately but the kid wouldnt stop looking at me. I dont want to sound too "Hellmuth" like here, but I just knew he didnt have it. So then I went on to hands he could have where he didnt have anything, and still didnt have me beat. I took him off an A because this guy wouldve re raised with any A. So I continued to think about what he could have, and the longer I took the more uncomfortable this guy got. I then started to think QJ or Q 10 on a stone bluff. I apologized to the table for taking so long, remarking that "I dont have anything, but I think I got him beat" Anyways, I finally called him, and he let out a big sigh. He turned over J 10 of hearts for J high and a back door flush draw. I was so pumped!!! The old K high held up and I scooped the pot. The table sat in amazement. It was a true moment of glory for me in poker. No offense, but when you flop Royal Flushes, I dont see how this can be the best hand youve ever played. You dont even have to think. You just sit there and collect. Now calling a guy with K 2, thats a poker hand.[/b]

[ForRealDD 0]

Again, I probably haven't slow rolled in a year or so, but most of the schmucks were regulars, and friendly. "Underground" doesn't = Teddy KGB and the Russian mobs card room. It simply means , not of legal standards