Best Hands Thread (Low Content)

[Tom Bayes]

I'm starting this thread so you can brag about your "best hands". I'll start.

Best Pat Hand, 5CD: I was once dealt a pat king-high straight flush. I got no post-draw action with the 2nd nuts.

Best Drawn Hand, 5CD: I made a royal flush, drawing one to KQJT suited from the BB after the SB completed. Naturally, the one time in my life I held the nuts in this game, I got no action and won the minimum.

Best Hand Beaten, 5CD: I had AAAKK go down to quad fives. I have not yet had quads or better lose in 5CD.

Biggest Laydown before the draw, 5CD: I once correctly laid down a ten-high straight during a Planet Poker PL Draw tourney a few years ago. A player opened with a pot sized raise UTG, I repotted, and then a painfully weak-tight play re-re-potted right after me. I figured this player would never make this move without a monster and dropped my hand. The other player got the rest of his chips in and his AAA lost to an ace-high flush.

Biggest laydown, after the draw: I got away from a king-high flush before. I'm genetically incapable of getting away from an ace-high flush or better because I'm a five-card donkament specialist. I did incorrectly lay down a weak flush to a guy that I thought had made a boat against me yesterday, but he actually hadn't improved his trips [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

"Worst" Hand that won at showdown, Triple Draw: I once value bet with paired sevens in a donkament when I knew my opponent was confused and was playing for high hand. I was ready to cap but he just called with trips. Against players who knew it was lowball, I won a hand with paired fours against another player with paired fours when I "outkicked" them [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Best "Snow", Triple Draw: It's questionalbe if my play was advisable, but I won a hand when I was dealt 777JJ and represented a pat hand the entire way and was not looked up. I have had several hands that should have been better "snowing" opportunites, including a hand where I saw 3 of the sevens and all 4 deuces go through my hand, that didn't work. I haven't been dealt 2222x pat yet.

"Worst" Hand won at Showdown, Badugi: Ten-high three card hand. I haven't logged many hours at this game. Has anyone won a showdown with a two-card hand?

[flafishy]

A couple of limit 5CD hands I can remember off the top of my head:

AAAAx in the BB, everyone folds around, absolutely no action.

Last night, for the second time that I recall, absolutely nothing in the BB, three limpers ahead of me, I draw 5 to an A-high flush. First time this happened, I go for a check-raise but get no action. This time, I bet out, got calls from two behind me with two pairs.

[andyblub]

Here are my 2 best hands I had in 5CD:

http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/8...074assegc3.jpg

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6...ush48piwh5.jpg

I didn't even need to ask for help on 2+2 what to do [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

And even though, I wasn't involved in this pot (and it's not even 5CD, I kept this screenie because it's the sickest suckout I've seen):

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/6...vierlintb3.jpg

[Murakawa]

my fav hand is 55556, you can draw and you don't have any cards that people want to have in their hands.

[stripsqueez]

i've had quads beaten twice in limit draw in the last 3 months...

my favourite miracle is drawing 3 to a straight which happens from time to time defnding the BB in an unraised pot drawing to 2 honour cards - never goes by without disparaging comment

playing a game called manilla (like holdem but with a 32 card, 7's up deck) i hit a straight flush (the best hand) on the river but folded because i was correctly convinced that my opponent had a higher flush - sometimes i should pay closer attention to my own cards

stripsqueez - chickenhawk

[bigpooch]

This isn't really fair, as it's almost certain that I've
played over a million hands of draw (mostly limit, but also
PL, and some NL). It's mostly online high only and live, I
have played mostly high-low limit and frequently PL high.


Best pat hand, 5CD: Royal flush.

Unfortunately, this was 8-handed high-low split, so I only
split the pot with a low-hand; fortunately, three players
took the draw after I limped reraised predraw. In regular
draw, the best hand dealt I've had is a queen-high straight
flush on 'dise (Paradise) utg in 2-4 and limp reraised in a
3-way pot and got paid off (can't even remember in how many
spots as I was multitabling).

Best drawn hand: Royal flush (what else is new?)

Must have made this more than twice, but the first time I
ever had a royal flush post-draw was when I was playing a
live PL draw game with a bug. My opponent made an agonziing
call on the end with 999(bug)x (if he didn't have a bug,
then I think he would have easily folded).

Best hand beaten, 5CD: Once in the BB on 'dise $1-2 I held
quad fives and was beaten PREDRAW by the button (I think it
was luckyelmo) who held a straight flush (queen-high, if I
remember correctly).

Biggest laydown after the draw: pitched a baby boat 55533
after I got checkraised for my stack in a live game (it was
actually a bit easier to fold since I tossed a deuce).

Highest hand, split-pot, 5CD 7-A: split with a wheel
straight flush (both pat!) on Celeb a.k.a. IPN/Boss. After
that hand, paranoia haunts me on that site! Still, the 7-A
games are good there.

Most memorable bluff, 5CD: I was playing in a tough "jacks-
back" NL game and opened with aces up as the button. A very
tight player limp-raised me for just above the minimum and
he naturally stood pat (it's obviously likely he has either
a straight six or a wheel; I held two aces so he was a heavy
favorite to have 65432). Before I drew, I was thinking how
much to raise if I missed to steal the pot since this guy
was so tight, he would likely put me on a boat and fold. I
figured that I should raise about 3x the size of the pot to
put enough pressure to get him to fold. I drew and missed
and my bluff succeeded although my opponent thought a good
20 to 30 seconds before mucking (and I made a big mistake
showing this hand to a third party - hubris, but I was quite
young!). After that hand, I knew I could outplay almost
anyone.

Best read, 5CD high-low: I held a 532Ax/utg in 8-handed
spread limit and limped. The next player, "B", raised a
small amount; then "Bob" cold-called this and a bad player
in late position also made a cold call. I made #8 (caught a
7 for 8th nut-low) and "B" was pat and the others drew one
each. Because of "B's" history of play and I was thinking
that "Bob" was going low (as he often does), there wasn't
much room for "B" to have a big hand and with his slightly
worried look, I surmised that he held a pat seven. If so,
he could only have #7 to beat me, so I checked to see what
the action would be since I was certain that "B" would bet
his pat seven. Bob now called, so I put him on a smooth
draw that now made a smooth eight and the bad player now
called, so I thought I had the easiest check-raise in the
world! Sure enough, everyone called, and luckily, the bad
player was going low as well, so I scooped. Sure enough,
"B" faced a 76 and I asked Bob if he made an eight and he
said he did, but I really didn't know what the bad player
held (I didn't think there would be enough low cards for him
to be low as well!).



Memorable hand, 5CD high low: I played a lot of high draw
online, but before online poker, I played (and analyzed)
high-low draw quite a lot (only need a pair or better to
qualify for high and no qualifier for low). I played a lot
(in January one year, I think I must have played almost 400
hours and at least 50% of it was high-low draw) so I got to
know how everyone played (or so I thought!). Several hands
come to mind, and many were remarkably noteworthy, but
here's just one:

I was in a full (8-handed) $20-40 limit high-low game where
everyone antes 2 and the button posts 7 (it's 5 to complete
and $22 to open raise). I was utg+1 and held a pat straight
QJT98 which I would have normally raised with, but the "Eye"
(who is a good PL player) seemed especially interested in
his hand. Since he was seated to my immediate left, I made
a tell-related play and limped. He now looked confused and
wondered why I didn't raise, so he limped in (unlucky!) and
everyone folded to the button, "T.C" who made it $20 more
(now I didn't feel so bad!), so I reraised and the "Eye"
cold-called and T.C. called. I stood pat, the "Eye" drew
one (I put him on a smooth 8/9 that was now drawing to a
wheel) and "T.C." drew two. Although some players would
draw two to trips, T.C. was known to break a lot of his made
lows (especially, 98s or 97s) and draw two, and he would
seldom draw two to trips (he'd usually just take one), even
if somebody showed some strength and stood pat, so I put him
on a two-card draw to a wheel or 3 babies suited. (Of
course, he could have held trips, but I was thinking it was
much more likely he had a low draw or 3 babies suited).

Post-draw was the most amazing: I led out, the "Eye" popped
it (I put him on either a wheel or smooth six), "T.C." 3-bet
this and I had the nerve to cap it. The "Eye" now said
"give me a quarter!" and sure enough, both the "Eye" and
"T.C." made wheels. A non-thinking or unobservant player
might have mucked against the button's "high" hand.

[pete fabrizio]

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my fav hand is 55556, you can draw and you don't have any cards that people want to have in their hands.

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A 5 is necessary for like a million straights. I would think 22223 is better.

[Big Limpin]

I lost quads last night. Hero 777 pre, gets uppity action from KK, hero spikes 1 outer for quads, KK hits his wtf%*$! outer for two more kings [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] very glad it was limit [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[Murakawa]

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I lost quads last night. Hero 777 pre, gets uppity action from KK, hero spikes 1 outer for quads, KK hits his wtf%*$! outer for two more kings [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img] very glad it was limit [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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I lost a rebuy tourney this way. well i had a wheel he drew 4 kings from 2 kings. bummer.

I also like 56789s

[Uncle Wimp]

I once drew three to tens and made quads. My opponent drew three. We capped it post draw in limit. He made quad kings. Weisenburg, I think, said the odds of this happening, where both draw three and make quads, is 250,000-1.