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Sorry if this has been done before but, after seeing the Espn show about the best hand the pros have ever played, I thought it would be cool to do that here. So post the best hand you've ever played and what you were thinking while playing the hand (what made you make taht play). I am not good at poker so I have no best hand, but post yours here.

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The hand that put me out of the WPT Championship.Most of you know it well.Can't be results oriented, because I knew I had the lead and acted on it, but sometimes it doesn't matter. I'd do it again every time though.I double there, and I'm on to day 2 with plenty of chips.

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First time I ever played HE for money was 2-6 Spread HE at Buffalo Bill's in Primm, NV a little over 2 yrs ago.I had AQ and called a raise with position on the raiser. There were other callers as well. Flop was QQx and the raiser bets with a caller, I raise the max and they both call. Turn is a brick and the same beting happens. River is a Q, same betting except original raiser reraises and third player folds. We reraise each other about 6 times before she calls and shows AA.One player told her, "You played it right, just got unlucky." Anoher player said, "Well she might have put him on a Queen after the 3rd reraise."As far as quality of play, a monkey could have played it. However, I hadn't decided if poker was something I wanted to take seriously and this hand was such a rush that I've been hooked since. Erik

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First time I ever played HE for money was 2-6 Spread HE at Buffalo Bill's in Primm, NV a little over 2 yrs ago.I had AQ and called a raise with position on the raiser. There were other callers as well. Flop was QQx and the raiser bets with a caller, I raise the max and they both call. Turn is a brick and the same beting happens. River is a Q, same betting except original raiser reraises and third player folds. We reraise each other about 6 times before she calls and shows AA.One player told her, "You played it right, just got unlucky." Anoher player said, "Well she might have put him on a Queen after the 3rd reraise."As far as quality of play, a monkey could have played it. However, I hadn't decided if poker was something I wanted to take seriously and this hand was sucha rush that I've been hooked since.Erik
not much talent required but still a really cool hand. :club:
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First time I ever played HE for money was 2-6 Spread HE at Buffalo Bill's in Primm, NV a little over 2 yrs ago.I had AQ and called a raise with position on the raiser. There were other callers as well. Flop was QQx and the raiser bets with a caller, I raise the max and they both call. Turn is a brick and the same beting happens. River is a Q, same betting except original raiser reraises and third player folds. We reraise each other about 6 times before she calls and shows AA.One player told her, "You played it right, just got unlucky." Anoher player said, "Well she might have put him on a Queen after the 3rd reraise."As far as quality of play, a monkey could have played it. However, I hadn't decided if poker was something I wanted to take seriously and this hand was sucha rush that I've been hooked since.Erik
not much talent required but still a really cool hand. :club:
My poker expertise at the time was watching Moneymaker win the ME and playing for play money on Stars with a copy of "Holdem Poker" by Skalnsky in front of me telling me what to do. :D
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The best hand I ever played was when I had pocket 5's and flopped quads. Played it real slow and got two guys to go all-in on the hand. I nice little pay day in 1-2 NL.

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The best hand I ever played was when I had pocket 5's and flopped quads. Played it real slow and got two guys to go all-in on the hand. I nice little pay day in 1-2 NL.
Is there a better feeling than that? I did the same thing in 2-5 NL at Bellagio. I acted real pained at every call and got all the money in at the river. It was a toss up between this hand and the one I posted.
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Of course any hand that i flop a boat of a straight flush, but the hands i like are the ones i call a bluff with garbagebest hand was during heads up after a live home game,I had garbage like J,5 in the BB, he raises from SB, and i call.flop is 5,8,10 i checked, opponent pushes all in, he had a large stack over me, i thought for a minute, and realised he's been playing loose all night but tight when he hits, so i called with bottom pair, and sure enough he had poo poo mcmuffins.

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i got two people to put all of their chips into the pot when i was sitting on a royal flush. i thought that was pretty impressive.but, the best hand i ever played was the one that propelled me into day 2 of last year's wpt at foxwoods. i don't remember all of the details, but the gist of it was that i had a read and i stuck with it and called off all of my chips with middle pair against a maniac who was bluffing at the pot with a busted flush draw and doubled up. i then had the pleasure of knocking the guy out the very next hand when all the chips went in pre-flop with kings against a qj suited

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I get J10 in the BB and it folds to an unknown in the hijack who flat calls. Alan Boston on the button flat calls as well. He has the bigstack at the table, and an unraised hand is very unusual. I check the option and see the flop.Flop is AKQ rainbow.The nuts looks good for me, so I check first to act. 2nd player checks as well, and Boston makes a bet of maybe 1/3 pot. I forget exact numbers. Me and the other player both call.Turn is another Ace. (Here I am like, Dammit, that's not the card I wanted)But I check again, and so does the player behind me....At this point, Boston is visibly confused, he makes a wierd lil shake of his head and a crazy look and bets a bit stronger this time, makes a bet of maybe 3200 or something.At this point, I know from a combination of things, that he's probably got Ax. If he had any full house hands, he would definitely raise preflop. Also from his reaction, he was confused what we're calling with since he figures we aren't on an ace if he's got it. Then his strong bet to protect and take it down here tells me it's probably an Ace with a lower kicker.I have over 16k at this point, and I decide I am best, and I want to put him on the decision, so I go All-In.The other player folds immediately, and Boston takes some time to think about it.Finally he makes the call, and flips up A9o.David Oppenhiem is on my left, and before I flip my cards up... He says "You got the straight?" and I say "Yep" and flip it up.Now I sweat the river and see the ugliest King I have ever seen in my life come off.He makes his boat and I'm out on day one with runner runner boat vs the flopped straight.So there you have it.
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My favorite is easily from a NLHE SNG I played a while back. This was about the 3rd or 4th hand of the tourney.An early position player raised a modest amount and got a caller from middle position. I called from the cutoff with A:heart:T:heart:. The flop was Q:heart:J:heart:K:heart:. The original raiser pushes all-in, MP quick calls and I just type, "lol" in the chat window and call. Turns out the original raiser had KJ and the middle position player had QQ. What's more is the 4th Q hit on the river. I ended up winning the tourney thanks to tripling up very early on.Again, a no brainer hand but great for the fact I flopped a royal flush AND I had all other players involved in the hand move all-in on me before I even had to act. Kinda like dragging a fishing net through a bathtub full of trout.This is followed very closely by the first hand of LHE I played in Vegas. I'm dealt JJ in early position, raise it up and get two callers. The flop comes out J2x with two spades. I lead out, one player folds and the other calls. Then the K:spade: falls on the turn. I lead out again and buddy starts mouthing off saying things like "You're dead, I got you, etc." Basically telling me that he just turned the nut flush as he raises. I decide to believe him and just call getting pot odds to draw to my boat rather than reraise to make sure he's got the flush. Well another 2 falls on the river, filling me up, and I lead out again. Same story with the tough talk and he raises. I reraise, he reraises, etc. until I am all in. I turn over my jacks but decline to announce my hand. Buddy jumps up and exclaims, "Nut flush bitch!" and proceeds to reach for the pot. The dealer then pushes the pot my way and my buddy flips out on him almost screaming that the pot was being given to the wrong player. The dealer calmly looks at him and says, "Um, sir, a full house beats a flush." My buddy then curses a lot says "I didn't even see the board F'ing pair." Of course the floor came over to have a discussion about his behaviour and shortly thereafter he was escorted out of the poker room.Now THAT was a great way to get me hooked on live poker!

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I can't remember all of the details b/c it was several months ago. I was in the middle of my biggest downswing ever. I was stupidly playing a bit over my BR - $1/$2 NL.I had KQ in position. Flop came down something like 77Q.I forget the turn and river, but it was just me and one other player in the hand. He was the big stack at the table, and the way he played the hand something just didn't add up. I got the impression that he was just trying to money-whip me, and get me to lay down a hand that had him tied, or maybe out-kicked. He moved in on me on the river for something like $150 and I was positive he didn't have a 7 so I called. He turned over Q9 and I scouped the pot w/ Queens and 7s w/ a better kicker.I made a read, stuck w/ it, and didn't let the big stack push me around.

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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 cocky 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.

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Probably not the best hands I've ever played, but they Just happened. Clearing a bonus at Hollywood Poker. $1/2 limit.I raised in MP w/ 9-9Flop Q-9-9Got a lot of action on both turn and river... took down a 17BB pot against 2 players.About 10 hands later on another table, I limped with 5-5 after 4 others had done the same.Flop 10-5-5Took down another nice pot with this one.Flopped Quads twice within about 5 minutes... and got action on both.It's just a good news day.

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Just recently I was playing with my friends. I have a tight table image with these guys. Half way through the tourney I raise it up with AQ and a losse maniac calls me in the big blind. Flop misses me but pairs so it likely didn't hit him either. He checks, I bet and after a few seconds he goes all in over the top. There was something about the way he acted that made me feel he just didn't have anything. He knew that I was likely to have 2 high cards in this situation and probably figured he could push me off the hand. I also knew if he had hit the flop at all he probably would have called and let me bet out again on the turn so I really thought he had nothing. I called with the AQ and he flips over A9 and I end up taking it. After the hand he was astounded at my call cause he would never expect me to call an all in with Ace high in that situation but I just knew he was full of it and I was right.

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Here's one of my favourites, though probably not my best.My first live tournament, final table. I hold my favourite hand (33), and limp along with 2 others. Flop comes down A93, turn is my fourth three, after which this guy at the table says as a joke "Hey guys, the nuts here is pocket 3's" The river is meaningless, and after I get raise all-in on after my river value bet, I call and say "What did you say the nut's was?" as I flip up my quads. I go on to win the tournament.

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Here's mine........2-4 NL cash game with some friends and I'm playing against a guy who is hyperaggressive almost to the point of being a maniac (he is good though). Anyways, he raises to 12 on the button and I call with a4 suited. The flop comes J77, I check, he bets 16 and the way the hand was played and the way he was acting I was very sure it was a continuation bet. So i minraised to 32 making it look like i had a jack and wanted to take pot down right there. He reraises to 48 and I interpreted this as, he knew that his bet looked like a steal and that my raise was most likely a resteal. I believed if he had a real hand he woudl have reraised to closer to 70-80. I followed through on my read and went all in with no pair and he immediately folded. It was very risky, but I had a read and I followed through on it and dragged a big pot.

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Fave hand... Nothing too spectacular but it was allways stand out in my mind as my first pot over 1k and it was 1/2 NL. I raised from the cutoff with A Q clubs and the table MANIAC calls from the SB along with the BB (Who is clearly tilted at this point. Flop hits A, 9 2 with 2 clubs out there and Mr McManiac leads out for 70 dollars into a pot of about 27, BB calls and I re-raise to 200, Maniac (I still remember his name despite this being 7 or 8 month ago) goes all in and the BB calls. My buddy is watching and screams for me to lay it down but I call for another 300 or so dollars figuring I am WAY ahead and got the redraw anyways. Maniac flips over 5 7 clubs so he is dead to two perfect cards. It actually turned a bad week into a good week all in one good hand. I still look over the hand history and smile. My favourite call was in a tourney and we were final 2. I was in the BB with K 3 off suit and the unraised flop hit A 2 2. I checked it and the villain went all in. I basically knew he wouldnt play a 2 like that and hadnt raised so knew he didnt have an Ace so called with K high. He was unhappy but it made my day. Not a genius call per se but it really made me think about the strength of putting opponents on hands and following reads.

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I get J10 in the BB and it folds to an unknown in the hijack who flat calls. Alan Boston on the button flat calls as well. He has the bigstack at the table, and an unraised hand is very unusual. I check the option and see the flop.Flop is AKQ rainbow.The nuts looks good for me, so I check first to act. 2nd player checks as well, and Boston makes a bet of maybe 1/3 pot. I forget exact numbers. Me and the other player both call.Turn is another Ace. (Here I am like, Dammit, that's not the card I wanted)But I check again, and so does the player behind me....At this point, Boston is visibly confused, he makes a wierd lil shake of his head and a crazy look and bets a bit stronger this time, makes a bet of maybe 3200 or something.At this point, I know from a combination of things, that he's probably got Ax. If he had any full house hands, he would definitely raise preflop. Also from his reaction, he was confused what we're calling with since he figures we aren't on an ace if he's got it. Then his strong bet to protect and take it down here tells me it's probably an Ace with a lower kicker.I have over 16k at this point, and I decide I am best, and I want to put him on the decision, so I go All-In.The other player folds immediately, and Boston takes some time to think about it.Finally he makes the call, and flips up A9o.David Oppenhiem is on my left, and before I flip my cards up... He says "You got the straight?" and I say "Yep" and flip it up.Now I sweat the river and see the ugliest King I have ever seen in my life come off.He makes his boat and I'm out on day one with runner runner boat vs the flopped straight.So there you have it.
Did you buy in for the 25 K or did you win a satellite?
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I get J10 in the BB and it folds to an unknown in the hijack who flat calls. Alan Boston on the button flat calls as well. He has the bigstack at the table, and an unraised hand is very unusual. I check the option and see the flop.Flop is AKQ rainbow.The nuts looks good for me, so I check first to act. 2nd player checks as well, and Boston makes a bet of maybe 1/3 pot. I forget exact numbers. Me and the other player both call.Turn is another Ace. (Here I am like, Dammit, that's not the card I wanted)But I check again, and so does the player behind me....At this point, Boston is visibly confused, he makes a wierd lil shake of his head and a crazy look and bets a bit stronger this time, makes a bet of maybe 3200 or something.At this point, I know from a combination of things, that he's probably got Ax. If he had any full house hands, he would definitely raise preflop. Also from his reaction, he was confused what we're calling with since he figures we aren't on an ace if he's got it. Then his strong bet to protect and take it down here tells me it's probably an Ace with a lower kicker.I have over 16k at this point, and I decide I am best, and I want to put him on the decision, so I go All-In.The other player folds immediately, and Boston takes some time to think about it.Finally he makes the call, and flips up A9o.David Oppenhiem is on my left, and before I flip my cards up... He says "You got the straight?" and I say "Yep" and flip it up.Now I sweat the river and see the ugliest King I have ever seen in my life come off.He makes his boat and I'm out on day one with runner runner boat vs the flopped straight.So there you have it.
Did you buy in for the 25 K or did you win a satellite?
check his blog, i'm pretty sure he has a whole long story on the whole experience, and the story is pretty cool to read, it's worth checking out.
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