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What are your favourite/ most hated hands in the hole.

The following seem to do me good (knock on wood):

K K
3 3
J 9(off or on)
10 9 (off or on)

Having said that I like most Suited connectors

Hate:
7 7
J J
Q J

J 8 down to J 2.
I hate jacks usually.
 
Low suited connectors. Love raising with them and making a hand and knocking out Mr AK who then abuses me for ages with the usual "how the hell can you even play that crap let alone raise" :D
 
Theseventhhamster said:
Low suited connectors. Love raising with them and making a hand and knocking out Mr AK who then abuses me for ages with the usual "how the hell can you even play that crap let alone raise" :D
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Don't know about low suited-connectors, but yeah it's very satisfying to open-raise with medium suited connectors, hit the flop or at least a strong draw, and break a stronger starting hand that didn't re-raise pre-flop.

My favourite hand is pocket Aces! Well, I'll stick with that as it was the hand that won my first and only casino tournament.

But seriously, I like K-10s and 5-5. And lately, I like 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 4-3 and 4-2, but only from the blinds, hoping to flop a nut straight wheel draw.

All Jacks are bad, even A-J and J-J :)

But more so than good hands, I like good position.
 

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red+black said:
Don't know about low suited-connectors, but yeah it's very satisfying to open-raise with medium suited connectors, hit the flop or at least a strong draw, and break a stronger starting hand that didn't re-raise pre-flop.

My favourite hand is pocket Aces! Well, I'll stick with that as it was the hand that won my first and only casino tournament.

But seriously, I like K-10s and 5-5. And lately, I like 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, 4-3 and 4-2, but only from the blinds, hoping to flop a nut straight wheel draw.

All Jacks are bad, even A-J and J-J :)

But more so than good hands, I like good position.
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If they are low in a raised pot you can draw to a straight without anyone having a piece of the flop or even realising what you have until it's too late. Not many players will put you on 5 4 in a raised pot! ;)
 
No love for Q-T?

I don't know if I really have "favourite or hated" hands. All of them look good for a raise. But if I had to pick some to hate, I'd say Q-Q, K-K and A-A when idiots slowplay them in the PL game.

But I have to give some love to the mid suited cards, even hands like 7s-9s or whatever. Very good for winning big pots in the PL game with a limped pot. Of course, I'm not calling raises with them, though. I seem to win pots more often with them (hitting straights/flushes) then flopping sets with small-mid pairs.
 
Thought I'd go back and check what hand I won the APL with.

QJs, so I'll have to add that as a favourite hand.

Hated hands: J-5 and 10-5, seem to get them heaps, always fold of course.
 
favourite hands:

obviously the cowboys and rockets.

J10 suited, J9 suited, 10 8 suited.

I've also been getting King-8 dealt to me alot, and seem to do okay with it occasionally =/

hands that I dislike:

middle pocket pairs, sometimes get overattached.

Aces with low kickers. (what are you hoping for?)

I can never win with QQ, an ace or king always seems to flop :rolleyes:
 
Armwarmer said:
I can never win with QQ, an ace or king always seems to flop :rolleyes:
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[B]
             Chance of flop containing exactly
YOUR HAND    0 o/c    1 o/c    2 o/c    3 o/c
==============================================[/B]
   QQ         58.57%  35.14%    6.00%    0.29%

o/c = overcard(s)
 

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For some reason I really like J9 suited, and I see a lot of people here list it too.

But...I don't recall ever winning a pot with it :)
 
For some reason I like K9. I'm more prone to playing that than other hands that are around the same mark. I hate J5 the most.
 
red+black said:
Code: 
[B]            Chance of flop containing exactly[/B]
[B]YOUR HAND    0 o/c    1 o/c    2 o/c    3 o/c[/B]
[B]==============================================[/B]
   QQ         58.57%  35.14%    6.00%    0.29%
 
o/c = overcard(s)
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Just picked up QQ again in a sit and go.

Raised it 5xBB, which was about 15% of my stack. Guy reraises me, so I push all in. He calls with AK.

Needless to say, I still hate QQ.
 
Just picked up the bitches again, second time today. Stack isn't huge.

Raise 2x bigblind, get reraised by chipleader, call.

Flop is all low, gapped, rainbow. I move in. Get called. Against Kings.

Sigh.
 

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Armwarmer said:
Just picked up the bitches again, second time today. Stack isn't huge.

Raise 2x bigblind, get reraised by chipleader, call.

Flop is all low, gapped, rainbow. I move in. Get called. Against Kings.

Sigh.
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Eh, that's just kind of unlucky. I mean you said yourself you're stack isn't huge so you had to move in. The flop was the best flop you could hope for and to come up against kings well that's just stiff.
 
Knowledge said:
Eh, that's just kind of unlucky. I mean you said yourself you're stack isn't huge so you had to move in. The flop was the best flop you could hope for and to come up against kings well that's just stiff.
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Sad thing is, for some reason I felt like I was beat. There's no way I could play that differently though in an online environment.

I think it's time to start playing more live games at crown.
 
It really is a situation whe you have two premium pairs go up against each other. I'll temp fate here, it is probably bound to happen one day, but I can't ever recall having Kings or Queens and an opponent having a higher pair.

Tournament at Crown last week I strongly re-raised a strong open-raise, it folded around, and he went all-in. I called. I had Kings, he had Queens.

I guess the test is to get away from Kings or Queens when you have strong evidence that you are beat. It's usually easy to get away from a low to medium pair, the problem is when you have a high-ish pair and can't lay it down. Although I ********ed up last night at Crown (typical noob level 1 thinking), I try to use my read and question whether a player would bet that way with AK or AQ, or even a lower pair. Some will, some won't.

Then again, I was victim to a re-re-raise heads-up on a paired flop in a cash game (another guy was all-in), and I laid my 10s down, he showed pocket 2s. I was rather mad at being outplayed. Then again, I did know he was rather loose and I should have pushed.
 
Re-re-raise with pocket 2s?

That's insane. (Edit: In terms of heads up, I guess it was a strong semi-bluff on you. Pocket 2s aren't that bad (a favourite against any non-pocket pair, and I guess he had fold equity if you did have a pair. Strong play by him).

For me, it really depends on the player's stack, and their table image.

In the hand when I lost against kings, the guy had a pretty big stack (was chipleader, had 6k chips at the start of the hand, compared to my 2.5k). My raise was 200, and he raised it up to 400. He had been playing quite tight, though.

For me, he could be on a multitude of hands, Ace-J+, any pocket pair above sevens or eights. Since I was acting first, with a favourable flop, I thought I'd make an overbet, to try and represent a desperate move with two overcards, hoping he'd call with a smaller overpair or ace king. If he did have a decent hand, I figured I had some fold equity too.

I don't know, sometimes the cards play themselves. I'd never fault someone for being unable to lay down kings in that situation (against aces), but for me, I think If I was playing in a live game for higher stakes, I may have gotten away from the queens.
 

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