A "Brunson" in all of us? |
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Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:05 pm GMT by Pokerfarian
Last night I was sat at a 10 person $3/$6 table, and from the first second I was there, people were ripping into each other for the hands they were playing.
I am playing my usual tight, aggressive game, and I am enjoying the pointless banter.
I get dealt K  10  in first position.
I am compelled to call, because this particular hand has that mystical hold on my poker playing soul. I know it is not rational, but I will always call a single bet with this hand, regardless of position. I don’t fear a raise with these cards.
Does any one else have a hand that they play because…it just speaks to them?
PS The flop was K  , K 4
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Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:09 pm GMT by arras
I do, I have a hand that most people don't play, but I like to use it as an always call and even sometimes raise. For some reason, it has been very kind to me. 
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:20 pm GMT by Sid Lambert
superstitious nonsense
but if yer having fun w/ it, go for it i suppose
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:58 pm GMT by age_of_sages
74 offsuit. Not only do I call with it, I raise with it. I win lots of pots and see very few showdowns.
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:22 pm GMT by Hungry4Knowledge
10-Qs has had me callingraising every time :D Ever since i rived a royal flush with it it been my favourite not-top-hands  4-7s in diamonds too has been kind to me too :D
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:40 pm GMT by cayouche
T8 suited
Unless there's two raises in front of me, I will call with this hand. Sometimes I catch this UTG/early, I just know it's suicide but I call, and flop 2 pairs, or straight flush draw.
This is my holy hand.
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:44 pm GMT by JohnnyCache
aces and eights.
My favorite live cardroom is the number 10 saloon in deadwood south dakota and you can't help but play it
I picked it up during a re-enactment of Bill Hickok's shooting once. And I made two pair.
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:49 pm GMT by TxShadow
| cayouche wrote: | T8 suited
Unless there's two raises in front of me, I will call with this hand. Sometimes I catch this UTG/early, I just know it's suicide but I call, and flop 2 pairs, or straight flush draw.
This is my holy hand. |
I like T8 as well for some reason 
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:20 pm GMT by UrAteUp
AA or KK. They are money makers....and for some unknown reason I just can't get away from them.... :D
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:21 pm GMT by Soup_dog
| UrAteUp wrote: | | AA or KK. They are money makers....and for some unknown reason I just can't get away from them.... :D |
Rats! I was just about to say that.
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:07 pm GMT by TxShadow
| UrAteUp wrote: | | AA or KK. They are money makers....and for some unknown reason I just can't get away from them.... :D |
I hate AA and KK.
I usually end up being only slightly happy or very upset when I get dealt one of those hands.
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 6:29 pm GMT by zinn0
Every time I've gotten AA and KK the last few days, I've gotten 0 action...
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:22 pm GMT by Geno
I will always call a bet in a FL ring game with 24s or 24o purely because I had it pay me off huge a silly amount of times in Vegas last time I was there and none of those suckers ever see it coming. I play tight as a duck's ass most of the time but that hand has me getting crazy every time 
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:03 pm GMT by Barry1219
The hand I am married to the bitter end with is 9 10....I will fold K J before 9 10 on a pre-flop raise...dont know why..maybe its the bitter beats I have suffered holding JJ-QQ-KK-AQ-AK-AA to someone holding 9 10..
Posted Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:32 pm GMT by Ninja
LMAO, Buckethead??? :D
Posted Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:15 pm GMT by Johny
My favorite hand is 3  3 , I flopped my first ever quads with them.
Posted Fri Feb 10, 2006 5:29 pm GMT by xhi
My favorite is 23s in the small or BB. when it hits it is a monster.
And BTW Geno...
| Geno wrote: | | ....I play tight as a duck's ass most of the time but that hand has me getting crazy every time |
Two questions.
1) How tight is a duck's ass?
and
2) How do you know?
:D :D
I prefer "tight as a (supply your own ethnic here) virgin" It is more pleasurably provable.
Posted Wed Feb 15, 2006 10:57 am GMT by BeerWench13
10 8
I've cracked aces with it 4 times to date. Also, for some reason, I love to raise with 35s from LP. No one ever puts me on that hand.
Posted Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:02 pm GMT by KingOHearts
Just recently...T7o
Played about a thousand hands tuesday. Seemed like everytime it came up, the flop would come two pair or a boat. Finally about the 5th time, I limped in and sure enough hit a boat on the flop. Weird.
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