Most of the other boards have appreciation threads of one kind or another, either for bygone players, current players, whatever. So I felt that we in the poker board need an appreciation thread for something as well. And what better then the monster of all holdings, the flopped set.
One of the best feelings in poker has got to be flopping a set, particularly live. Making an assumption that you see the flop every pocket pair that you have, and that you will receive a pocket pair 3 hands out every 51, or 1 in 17, you will have a pocket pair once every 34 minutes of so based on 2 minutes per hand, roughly once every 8.5 times you see the flop will have an x to connect with the xx in your hand. This is around about once every four hours you will have the mighty set...
Saturday night at Burswood, I managed to flop three sets, and got paid off quite handsomely on every single one. The first, their was a raise preflop to about 15. A few callers, and I elected to thin the field from the BB with TT with a raise to 55. Only the one caller. Flop was 37T and I manage to stack someone with A7...
We moved on to another table, and I played out a very LOLset hand. I raised, about my third raise in 5 hands, with 99 in MP. 99 is edging closer to between a set mining hand, and a monster pair, but I choose to raise it... Two callers, and the pot is ~45. Flop 69K. SB announces all in, for what looks to be around 50. Im thinking about whether Im calling or raising, but wait a second, there were three tigers I couldnt see in his stack. HE HAS SHOVED FOR 350 INTO A 45 POT AND IM HOLDING MORE OR LESS TEH ****ING NUTS, LETS GO APESHIT... I called and his AT was surprisingly no-good... Turn was a 7 for a sweat though...
And last, but certainly not least. I overlimp a couple limpers with them snowmen. Flop 89T with a club draw. Des, an aggressive asian player, donks, and I raise. Someone cold calls the raise, and Des calls. Turn is the Ac and Des fires 55, and I call and the other player folds. I turn my hand over because I thought Des was all-in, but he wasnt, but he shoves dark anyway with his flush, and I call, because the Ad hit the river...
These three pots were worth about (brackets is roughly what I put into the pot)
TT = $300 ($120)
99 = $750 ($360)
88 = $380 ($160)
Total = $1430 ($640)
Although not all profit (ldo), I made not quite $1000 on Saturday night from flopping sets.
Hooray for the set...
Hip Hip
HOORAY!!1!!1!!
One of the best feelings in poker has got to be flopping a set, particularly live. Making an assumption that you see the flop every pocket pair that you have, and that you will receive a pocket pair 3 hands out every 51, or 1 in 17, you will have a pocket pair once every 34 minutes of so based on 2 minutes per hand, roughly once every 8.5 times you see the flop will have an x to connect with the xx in your hand. This is around about once every four hours you will have the mighty set...
Saturday night at Burswood, I managed to flop three sets, and got paid off quite handsomely on every single one. The first, their was a raise preflop to about 15. A few callers, and I elected to thin the field from the BB with TT with a raise to 55. Only the one caller. Flop was 37T and I manage to stack someone with A7...
We moved on to another table, and I played out a very LOLset hand. I raised, about my third raise in 5 hands, with 99 in MP. 99 is edging closer to between a set mining hand, and a monster pair, but I choose to raise it... Two callers, and the pot is ~45. Flop 69K. SB announces all in, for what looks to be around 50. Im thinking about whether Im calling or raising, but wait a second, there were three tigers I couldnt see in his stack. HE HAS SHOVED FOR 350 INTO A 45 POT AND IM HOLDING MORE OR LESS TEH ****ING NUTS, LETS GO APESHIT... I called and his AT was surprisingly no-good... Turn was a 7 for a sweat though...
And last, but certainly not least. I overlimp a couple limpers with them snowmen. Flop 89T with a club draw. Des, an aggressive asian player, donks, and I raise. Someone cold calls the raise, and Des calls. Turn is the Ac and Des fires 55, and I call and the other player folds. I turn my hand over because I thought Des was all-in, but he wasnt, but he shoves dark anyway with his flush, and I call, because the Ad hit the river...
These three pots were worth about (brackets is roughly what I put into the pot)
TT = $300 ($120)
99 = $750 ($360)
88 = $380 ($160)
Total = $1430 ($640)
Although not all profit (ldo), I made not quite $1000 on Saturday night from flopping sets.
Hooray for the set...
Hip Hip
HOORAY!!1!!1!!
