The Best Hand Ive Ever Played

[Tantalar 0]

So we are playing a little bit of No Limit Texas Holdem at a "Dealer's choice" cash game (PLO8 and NLH primarily but some Lo8. The kids I play with refuse to play razz or triple draw or any stud high low regular) I bought in for $100 of course. Pocket change stakes, .50/.50 blinds, but thats ok.So i'm dealt A9. On the button, its folded to me. Alan picks up a slice of pizza thankfully. I know at that moment i'm going to have an edge in this hand. So I make a standard raise of $2 more. Alan, thinking he's a wise guy calls. The flop comes Q92 and I make a standard raise of $4. Thinking i'm weak, he decides to raise me $9 more. I call, in position, with Ace high. Thinking a number of things. He most likely has a suited connector with a flush draw. He might even be thinking that I'm bluffing, and he's just trying to steal the pot. The turn is a 10 and he checks. Which really throws a wrench in the gears. Its this gives me a little information that he isn't as strong as he made himself look to be. The river is a Q and he doesnt think long... A standard $15 bet from him. I look over to him. "Oh alan... Alan..." he's eating the slice of pizza. Thats all I need to know.If you have food and your eating at the table. It generally is going to cost you a lot of money. Good players are going to pick up tells on you much easier. He was acting so nonchalant at the time. And when I looked at his face I could see it was something about the way he chewed which completely through it off. I was putting the pieces together and they weren't fitting properly. It takes a lot of heart to check the turn when you think your beat after betting the flop, and STILL bet the river because you think your opponent is weak. Its a whole other thing to know that your opponent knows your weak, but to call anyway with Ace high. because YOU think that HE thinks that YOUR weak. Thats when poker is at it's finest. When good players play good players.

[MasterLJ 0]

You don't have ace-high, you have a pair of nines sir.

[Lynbrook 0]

So we are playing a little bit of No Limit Texas Holdem at a "Dealer's choice" cash game (PLO8 and NLH primarily but some Lo8. The kids I play with refuse to play razz or triple draw or any stud high low regular) I bought in for $100 of course. Pocket change stakes, .50/.50 blinds, but thats ok.So i'm dealt A9. On the button, its folded to me. Alan picks up a slice of pizza thankfully. I know at that moment i'm going to have an edge in this hand. So I make a standard raise of $2 more. Alan, thinking he's a wise guy calls. The flop comes Q92 and I make a standard raise of $4. Thinking i'm weak, he decides to raise me $9 more. I call, in position, with Ace high. Thinking a number of things. He most likely has a suited connector with a flush draw. He might even be thinking that I'm bluffing, and he's just trying to steal the pot. The turn is a 10 and he checks. Which really throws a wrench in the gears. Its this gives me a little information that he isn't as strong as he made himself look to be. The river is a Q and he doesnt think long... A standard $15 bet from him. I look over to him. "Oh alan... Alan..." he's eating the slice of pizza. Thats all I need to know.If you have food and your eating at the table. It generally is going to cost you a lot of money. Good players are going to pick up tells on you much easier. He was acting so nonchalant at the time. And when I looked at his face I could see it was something about the way he chewed which completely through it off. I was putting the pieces together and they weren't fitting properly. It takes a lot of heart to check the turn when you think your beat after betting the flop, and STILL bet the river because you think your opponent is weak. Its a whole other thing to know that your opponent knows your weak, but to call anyway with Ace high. because YOU think that HE thinks that YOUR weak. Thats when poker is at it's finest. When good players play good players.

Don't you have a pair of nines? You had A/9 and a 9 hit on the flop?? So I take it you called and won?

[JoeyJoJo 18]

So i'm dealt A9. The flop comes Q92. I call with Ace high.

I hope when you make it as a big-time poker professional you take the Barry Greenstein route, but when you knock a player out of a tournament, instead of giving him a signed copy of your book, you will give him a piece of pottery.

[zedd2005 0]

You don't have ace-high, you have a pair of nines sir.

lol. you gave it to him straight. what a joke if the best hand you ever played was a hand where you couldn't even read your own hand

[DEVZTB05 0]

Please someone send this guy the link to that Phil Ivey hand at Monte Carlo, Im lazy

[No_Neck 0]

that is all LOL

[Jeepster80125 0]

Your post.

Tantalar, what you've just posted is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent post were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this forum is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

I hope when you make it as a big-time poker professional you take the Barry Greenstein route, but when you knock a player out of a tournament, instead of giving him a signed copy of your book, you will give them a piece of pottery.

You're pretty damn quick for such a new guy. Well played sir, well played.

[tobytobey 0]

You don't have ace-high, you have a pair of nines sir.

Umm doesn't he have TWO PAIR, queens and nines?edit....unless you were talking about right after the flop. In that case, nvm.

[Dogpatch 2]

This has got to be a joke, right? I like to keep Oreo cookies at my table. Then if they eat the cream, I know they're strong. (tee hee, I said "eat the cream")

[fleung22 1]

The flop comes Q92 and I make a standard raise of $4. Thinking i'm weak, he decides to raise me $9 more. I call, in position, with Ace high.

What they said above......plus it bugs the crap out of me when somebody says raise when they mean bet (or I suppose there could be a bet that wasn't mentioned...stupid as well)

[MasterLJ 0]

Umm doesn't he have TWO PAIR, queens and nines?edit....unless you were talking about right after the flop. In that case, nvm.

That all depends on "when" you are talking about his hand. I saw him say "I had ace-high" on the flop, and I wrote my post.

[Figurado 0]

So I assume this post happened because of the re-airing of the WSOP Circuit (think it was Tunica) coverage over the holidays. They had "The Nuts" segment about eating at the table and most of the pros chimed in that recreational players probably shouldn't eat at the table while a montage of pros eating played.I thought it was pretty interesting. I rarely play in games large enough to warrant eating at the table, but I figure it is harder to play and eat and look the way you want to look. I am not a huge tell guy but I do figure it changes the game. And almost every game I have ever been in has the vast majority of the players drinking some thing or another. Also over the weekend was a replay of that WPT Bad Boys where Tony G dressed in a kimono thing and flappped a folding fan around. He made a good laydown (for him...he was calling and betting astounding things) and said the reason he did it was that his opponent, Jean-Robert, took a drink while Tony was needling him. I actually think he was telling the truth. It looked like he was working his way into a wild call and somethign changed his mind.Do y'all have food and drink reads? (Not the op, I really figure that was a post from the WSOP broadcast, ... $.50 mixed home game with pre flop ppizza tells?)

[Lynbrook 0]

...plus it bugs the crap out of me when somebody says raise when they mean bet (or I suppose there could be a bet that wasn't mentioned...stupid as well)I love when my friends retell their poker stories. "So I was in the BB and it got raised to me. I had A/K and I called. Flop comes A/7/4 unsuited and I raised..." Before the next word can come out I always say, "Bet."

[Tantalar 0]

Mission completed. What a great post

[Dogpatch 2]

Mission completed. What a great post

Ah-hah. I don't watch much poker on TV.

[SweetDaddyFreak 0]

Please someone send this guy the link to that Phil Ivey hand at Monte Carlo, Im lazy

I watched that again last night and it ceases to amaze me.

[runthemover 39]

This one time I got 4 9 offsuit. I folded. It was the best hand I ever played.

[tomvdw 0]

I watched that again last night and it ceases to amaze me.

can you give the link?

[Guest PerfectHuman]

lol. you gave it to him straight. what a joke if the best hand you ever played was a hand where you couldn't even read your own hand

thats funny lol i was thinking the same thing

[_Great_Dane_ 0]

You don't have ace-high, you have a pair of nines sir.

You noticed that too, huh?

I hope when you make it as a big-time poker professional you take the Barry Greenstein route, but when you knock a player out of a tournament, instead of giving him a signed copy of your book, you will give him a piece of pottery.

Barry gives the signed book to the person who knocks him out. He doesn't have to bring 50 books to a WPT event for all of the people whom he knocks out.

What they said above......plus it bugs the crap out of me when somebody says raise when they mean bet (or I suppose there could be a bet that wasn't mentioned...stupid as well)

You noticed that too, huh? Is this one of those signs that a person is a fish when they don't know the difference between a bet and a raise?

This one time, at band camp, I got 4 9 offsuit. I folded. It was the best hand I ever played.

FYP

[TheMulletBurden 0]

For whoever it was that asked...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEfLXr3eSxs

[ChunkyLuver69 0]

Judging by this post I see what you are and what you will ever beI didnt look when I read this but I pray to whichever god you hold most highest that this is your first post so you can get away with this with only a slap on the wristI swear I hate you

[mcpickl 0]

i wish i could get the last 45 seconds back

[Actuary 3]

TTIWWP