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Hand replay - KQ (+$17.30)
I guess I have found my favorite starting hand. It's 
. It doesn't have to be suited, it just has to be KQ. Why? Well, it seems to me that I have some kind of a special relationship with this hand. As Anglo-Irish writer, Elizabeth Bowen said: When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out. I guess it is because I have won AND lost so much with this hand that I think that I have an special affection to it, or at least, I have found new attraction to this card due to the ups and downs I went through with it. So, yes, I guess I had special saved-up wishes regarding this hand, and my sub-consciousness worked for me towards those wishes. At least this time...
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NL10, FR
I was OTB with and with $9.50 this time. The reason for not being short stacked was that I lost some money in the morning playing shortstacked and decided to go in on 4 tables with full buy-in. I finished the day not only getting the loss back, but on the above average daily winning and the biggest reason for that was that I entered with full buy in and had money to invest and extract more from players when I had strong hands. Back to the hand... UTG limps, MP1 raises to $.50 and everyone folds to me. I cold call in position. SB folds and BB also calls with UTG folding. Pot was $1.65 and flop was 
immediately completing my straight. I felt wonderfully. I had and extreme monster hand here AND I had position. Simply beautiful. BB decided to checks and MP1 bets a pot sized $1.70. I thinked fast and calculated that it would be better to raise right away and isolate the MP1 because I knew he is what Poker Tracker autorate rules call a "showdown monkey" meaning that even if he is an ok or relatively good player, likes to go to showdowns and keeps loosing at showdowns- thus Showdown Monkey. I raised to $4 knowing that MP1 has either AK, AQ or AJ and with no draws on the board I believed that BB will be out of play here. Imagine my surprise when BB calls my $4 raise. Showdown monkey also calls, of course. Turn card was 
giving me an even completer straight and a possibility that I get straight flush if the board pairs the with 
, just in case if someone already has a set. In the first moment I was confused with BB's call but I realized that this player tried to slowplay what he thought was the best hand. I had to take advantage of that, and besides, I only had $5 more left. Pot was $13.65 by now so putting it all in here was only thing that I could really do. So I did put those $5 inside after they both checked to me. Guess what... I got both of them calling with showdown monkey being all in with $4.95. River card was 
. I never had a more complete straight than this one. Honestly... Anyway, BB opened 
for a set of Tens. Showdown donkey opened 
for his initial top pair "top kicker", and what now was a low straight from 8 to Queen. This time I had two observers looking at the $26.80 pot sliding my way...
p.s. rake can really hurt people at low limit games... in this hand it was $1.40 which is huge compared to the limits and the pots on average... cheers!
Post je objavljen 27.03.2007. u 20:17 sati.