Two Beautiful Flops

[Tim]

At my Friday night home game...

I have KQ in the BB. There were 4 limpers and I was going to raise, but I opted to check. The flop comes...



SB checks, I check, UTG bets, call, call, call, I call.

The turn comes...



I check, UTG moves all-in, fold, fold, SB calls for 60% of his stack. I then put him all-in. They both flip over JT and I bust both of them for a monster pot.

Yesterday I played an APAT event. When I played one of these events last month I flopped a straight flush. It wasn't as good this time, but I flopped quads...

At the end of the first level (25/50) the guy to my right, who was a rock, made it 200. I called with JTs. The flop came...



He c-bets 300. I call. The turn is x, and it's check/check. The river is a 9 and he checks. I bet 1k and he thinks for a while and calls, showing 99 for the house.

Yes, this is a brag post. But FWIW I didn't cash in the APAT event. Note to self: don't resteal in the BB when the villan has AA.

[DangerMouse]

Nice, nothing like flopping the nuts and having someone bet into you.

[Queso]

It is great when you get a hand like that.

For me, with three of a kind on the board, it's very hard to believe someone else has the case card.

Once in a casino cash game, I had Q6 in the BB, and the flop came QQ6. The turn was another Q-- and the river was another 6! We all had a lot of money in front of us. I thought if I shoved, I might catch either a pocket pair higher than sixes, or even get a call by someone thinking I was trying to buy the board. And that's exactly what happened-- my single caller said he thought I was bluffing.

But one of the other guys told me he wouldn't have called if he held 66 in his hand!

[Tim]

Nice, nothing like flopping the nuts and having someone bet into you.

It doesn't happen very often, but yes.... it doesn't get any better than that!

I particularly liked the KQ hand as I was going to apply a limpers tax pre-flop. The turn was just beautiful, just beautiful.

Poker can be such fun sometimes.

[Tim]

Make that 3 beautiful flops...

Sorry Danger!

[DangerMouse]

lol np. As I said, I was 99% sure I was ahead going into the flop. At least I got a sweat card on the turn.