Lucky Streak Poker

For some poker players at FullTiltPoker different hands will hold memories for them whether they are fond ones or otherwise. Personally I only really had one hand that brought back memories, and that is (As,10s).

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I once ended up caught up in a three way preflop raising battle in a cash game, and just had enough time to wonder why I had ended up putting in so much preflop with this hand, when the flop came down with three spades. There is a player who occasionally turns up at our live game who is said to always play any hand containing an (8). Needless to say, he is usually out quite early on and so I haven’t had the chance to play against him enough to verify this.

The (A,10) hand aside, I do not attach much sentiment to poker hands, although recently I have had strange things happen in this regard. Since flopping a Straight on Saturday with (J,9) I was strangely hitting every flop in my online tournament today with any hands including a Jack, including a flopped Straight after I had folded, with… you guessed it,(J,9). There is no logic to these happenings though, and it is probably mere coincidence.

There have been others too which spring to mind, including a all in shove preflop when I was very shortstacked with (3,3). I won that hand and everything turned around, as I made it all the way to heads up at the final table. After gaining control of the chip lead, I picked up (3,3) again and my raise was reraised all in preflop. After some thought I eventually put it down feeling there was too much danger of being up against a stronger pair. My opponent had (A,Q) and after hunting through what the board cards would have been, my Threes would have held up. The hand that began my turnaround had returned to give me my only shot at victory that night, but I didn’t take it, eventually finishing 2nd place.