Hi Folks !

It’s ideal to post another topic when it’s raining like hell as it does this afternoon. So here I am for the last post in the Special Hands categorie for the time being. Next week you’ll see numbers 50-46 of my list. I’m not going to talk a lot today about the crazy, different hands but you’ll have the chance to see those miracles yourself. You’ll probably remember my post about ‘ Cracking Aces’ ? Well this time I will have the best starting hand in NL Hold’em before the flop is revealing his mystery cards.I’ll show you now three hands where I play the Pocket Rockets and one extraordinary where someone else had the Nuts preflop.

The first one is very recently. I’m sitting on the BB with AA when there are two limpers to me, so I must raise and raise just over three times the Big Blind. I get one caller before we see the flop..

That was some Sexy Turn, like Antonio Esfandiari would say, don’t you think ? But well he deserved that for playing the J9 suited preflop with his small stack.

The second hand with the AA is where I’m in first position. I really like to limp than, knowing there are some very loose-agressive or desperate low stacked players behind me. I do this 75% of the time, it’s the ideal trap. But you must know the players’ style a little before doing that trap because you don’t want a limp pot with 4-6 players where you hold Aces. So I limped this hand…

That was very close! I get deservedly lucky on the turn after the short stack made his 1 outer. Happily I could dodge the flush draw on the river and take a nice pot. But as you’ll see now in the next example, it also could turn very wrong as I limp again in first position with AA knowing there are two morons behind me….

So my trap worked perfectly as he shoved in with K9 suited, certainly after the flop was very good. But then I got Whamboozelled, as Norman Chad would say, when he turned and rivered a 9 to make trips and got rewarded for his bad play. The last hand I’ll show you is even worse . Happily I’m not involved in that one because I would really steam afterwards if that happens to me. So the guy limps also in first position with AA…

How Sick was That ?!? He made trips Aces on the flop against K 10 leaving the short stack with only running outs, namely the 2 remaining Kings or running Q J. He got his running Kings giving him Quad Kings against the full house. Fortunately he got enough chips left to make a comeback.

Be there next week for the continuation of the Most Famous Poker Players top 100 !

Cheers,

J.M.