I have this irrational hate of some hands. Maybe I always lose with them or against them. For whatever reason here they are:
KJ- The mother of all hands I hate. Why you may ask? It is probably the hand I get knocked out of more tournaments with than any other hand. If I shove with A/K, some jackass always seems to call with this dominated hand and spike a jack. I shove with A/Q, no problem with K/J, I flop two pair he rivers the 10 for the straight. If I put the shoe on the other foot and get randy with it myself I lose the the dominating K/Q, A/K or any pair. Go figure.
My next least favorite hand is Q/10. Also one that is so easily dominated it is ridiculous, yet has knocked me out of more tournaments than I like to remember. Playing at Wildhorse a couple of years ago, I flopped two pair and was knocked out when called by.....wait for it........K/J who had an open ender which hit on the turn. The very next year at Wildhorse I flop two pair with my Q/10 and yes get knocked out by J/9 two pair who fills up on the river.
Next, a really bad hand that I will never play in any position except the unraised big blind. 10/5. This is such a miserable piece of work, never making the nuts (oh, except for maybe a freakish 10/10/10 or 5/5/5 flop. Call me irrational (just don't call me late for dinner), but I really hate these cards.
Oh, close to this subject....plays I hate. There always seems to be some jackass who either shoves or raises from the blinds after there are like 5 limpers. What the hell? Most of the time he assuredly does not have aces. So, he gets to play the hand, out of position, against a huge field with his raise which seldom gets rid of many players because, duh, they have position.
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K-J is a pain in the ass. I did knock Roland out of a tournament once when he had A-A and I got runner-runner K-J. He didn't let me forget that for about a week. He had no chips however so I was right to call in that situation. On the whole if I have K-J or A-10 I will fold to any raise unless it's a super cheap all-in or I just know for a fact that the raiser is trying to steal. I hate Q-10 and 10-5 also. Great minds think alike! LOL
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