Last time I showed a pretty sick hand, when I catched quad fives on the river. I received an email from a reader, René from Belgium, with the history of another spicy hand and the similarities are a little bit sick . I converted the hand for you:

So René (playing as ‘BaronGussie’) is seated in an heads-up confrontation and has pocket fives. His opponent makes a standard raise and he decides to see a flop. Unlike my hand last time, he immediately flops a set, just like the other player with the pocket sixes. The turn gives him quads and it’s checked towards the river where René is happy to see his opponent díd pick up something on the board, sixes full ^^ .

I played some shorthanded tournaments myself this week, but nothing really exciting happened, no spectacular hands and no spectaculair bankroll swings . The only exciting thing appeared during a hand I wasn’t involved in. We were down to four players when:

So it’s a limper’s pot (I don’t think raising in the big blind with KJ is a useful move). Somebody minbets the all hearts flop with a suspicous minraise behind him. After moves like this I’m not investing any more chips in such pots . Turn happened to be a very spicy one, as it created a straight flush against an A high flush. Notice the player with the straight flush plays a little better on the turn than on the flop, by making a pot-sized bet, simply because he knows the other player wouldn’t have called on the flop without a big heart. I hope I’ll be involved in some exciting situations next time

The next ten albums in the ‘FAYSBBYGB’-list then, with among others the first albums from Led Zeppelin and Radiohead, who both have three albums in the list. I really recommend Fragile for all the fans of progressive rock btw!

40 Led Zeppelin  - Led Zeppelin II (1969)
39 Girls In Hawaii - From Here To There (2003)
38 Yes - Fragile (1972)
37 A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms (2000)
36 Kraftwerk - The Man Machine (1978)
35 Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)
34 Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
33 Alice Cooper - Killer (1971)
32 Traveling Wilburys - Vol.1 (1988)
31 Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord (1968)

Magdalena (Mer de Noms) and Legend of a Mind (In Search of the Lost Chord)

Tags: flopping a set, from here to there, heads-up confrontations, limper's pot, making a straight flush, mer de noms, pot-sized bet, raising in the big blind, standard raise, traveling wilburys

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