Who won?

I love a good poker story. I'm going to play at with friends for the first time in a couple of months. Hopefully I have some of your luck. Hooray for suited connectors!

Fantastic.
I was playing last week and got a royal flush. granted it was 7-card stud (great game and nice change of pace from hold'em), but still awesome.

For 2 years I've played poker almost religiously once a week with my friends, and for the last 3 years I've played more sporadically at school and I've never had any straight flush. Maybe tonight is the night.

I played two weeks ago. Beat some friends of mine at Uni. Then I asked them if maybe we could play again; the night was young and we were enjoying ourselves. We lowered the entree fee so none of us would lose to much. Then I beat them again. Then I left. One must not push one's luck.

I played poker religiously ......... I lost but Mohammed made a prophet

Yeah, I'd say poker is a religion of mine, but my denomination is definitely Texas no limit hold 'em and I'm much more serious about my denomination as I am about my religion, as goes for most religions.

Thanks MM for sharing.

I had never seen a straight flush on the flop before, it was much more "exciting" than I would have imagined, my hands were literally shaking as I stacked all the chips I won from that hand, which seemed pretty stupid at the time. I got a guy to call my "all-in" after the flop, which was really cool because then I could show my straight flush before the last two cards were revealed, so it dragged out the excitement (for me at least) a bit.

Less than half an hour later I was dealt a pair of kings, and hit quads. I would not have guessed quad kings would have been so boring. Go figure.

What did the guy have?

I saw the title of the thread and immediately opened it. I was not disappointed. MM + 1

Hey, trip, did you read this thread? I flopped a straight flush, I have absolutely no idea what the guy had, I didn't even look at his cards! ;-)

I play poker with my grandparents. And win.

^ Ha. They probably let you win so you can go by chocolate milk and baseball cards at the corner store. Or whatever grandparents think young people do with money.

I doubt it. They got 20 dollars from me once.

Join the Find and Kill Diplomat game, http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=82872. See the forum about it.

And chocolate milk tastes disgusting.

Diplomat33, this is our top one player trying to have a grown-up conversation about poker and you post chocolate milk and an illegal game?
HAVE YOU NO RESPECT?

Calling a raise with a three-four suited when you aren't one of the blinds is not a good play no matter how it turns out.

MM, if a 9s fell on the turn, I bet you would have looked ;)

I disagree TC. As long as you don't do it often, playing unpredictably can give you an advantage. When your opponents see you win with high hands and trash, it makes it exceedingly difficult to guess what you have. Just make sure when you play garbage to throw it away before anyone sees it.

Nive hand MM, although I'm surprised you got a call at an all in off the flop. Must have been called by the flopped Ace high flush. My best hand ever was J 8 diamonds. Flopped Qs, 10 , 9 - straight with oipenended straight flush draw. Turned the flush (4 ) and rivered the straight flush (Qd). Took two others out with that runner runner. The Ad and Kd were both in it and the Kd was short stacked and playing in front of me. The Ad was behind me but about even so we were both pretty much all in. Only a $500 pot, but great hand and incredibly fun.

My next best hand was pocket 2s versus pocket As when the flop hit another 2 and the As were acting in front of me , I insta-called her all-in. She was pissed and called me an asshole. Turn and river did nothing.

Best and most fun losing hand was a flopped K high spade flush. I all-in and one guy calls. As high flush draw... I had $1400 in front of me and he only had $600, so I still had $800 left after losing it (2s on the river).

Of course, my addiciton started when my first time playing it hit 5 full houses or quads in a row (5 hands back to back!).

As far as the low-suited connectors, if your short stacked, they are a great hail mary play. If you are big stacked, then you can mix it up with them and keep your opponents off balance. Just don't do it all the time...