There is this one Asian dealer at Tulalip that has a lot of difficulty pronouncing "queens". I find it hilarious playing on high hand days when someone makes a queens full hand and he yells it out, "Coins full of jacks" . He usually has to repeat himself. Lol. Which brings me to a discussion of queens. The great Doyle Brunson once said, "Don't go all in with queen in your hand". I should listen to him as busted out of last two tournaments with Q/J and K/Q. As i explained recently I can't win with queens or against them. My aces were cracked in a tournament last month by QQ.
The last Sunday of month tournament seemed to come early this month, so when I tried to buy in with a $100 bill, the td asked me for $570 more. I have been running bad in cash games and had decided to just play tournaments for a while to control losses. No thanks! But the cash omaha game would not start for an hour or more. What to do? I took some time and finally signed up just as the game started. The guarantee was $65,000, and first place was over $20,000. A good way to catch up and i have done well in the past in these big ones.
Running fairly good despite early setback of my straight vs. Nut flush, I was at about 20k at first break. I like playing the last hand at break as many players are anxious to leave and it is a good spot to steal, particularly on the button. So, when I limped, the player next to me, fairly loose/aggressive, raised from the small blind, I called with my Q/J in position. The flop came K/Q/Q. He bet a fairly large amount. I viewed it as a continuation bet, or possibly A/K cutting off draws like J/10, A/10, A/J. There were only 3 hands possibly ahead of me, A/Q, K/Q, and K/K. I had to rule out all 3 of these hands. Since I had a queen it would be very hard and a cooler for him to have one. Also, a flopped full house would check here hoping for a steal attempt or a drawing hand to improve. With this in mind, and thinking of his draw options, I decided to raise all-in. His snap call was not a good sign. He tables A/Q, which at least leaves me with a few outs. No jack or paired board and i am gone. Ouch and double ouch. Which brings me back to the "queen rule". Wise words indeed.
The last Sunday of month tournament seemed to come early this month, so when I tried to buy in with a $100 bill, the td asked me for $570 more. I have been running bad in cash games and had decided to just play tournaments for a while to control losses. No thanks! But the cash omaha game would not start for an hour or more. What to do? I took some time and finally signed up just as the game started. The guarantee was $65,000, and first place was over $20,000. A good way to catch up and i have done well in the past in these big ones.
Running fairly good despite early setback of my straight vs. Nut flush, I was at about 20k at first break. I like playing the last hand at break as many players are anxious to leave and it is a good spot to steal, particularly on the button. So, when I limped, the player next to me, fairly loose/aggressive, raised from the small blind, I called with my Q/J in position. The flop came K/Q/Q. He bet a fairly large amount. I viewed it as a continuation bet, or possibly A/K cutting off draws like J/10, A/10, A/J. There were only 3 hands possibly ahead of me, A/Q, K/Q, and K/K. I had to rule out all 3 of these hands. Since I had a queen it would be very hard and a cooler for him to have one. Also, a flopped full house would check here hoping for a steal attempt or a drawing hand to improve. With this in mind, and thinking of his draw options, I decided to raise all-in. His snap call was not a good sign. He tables A/Q, which at least leaves me with a few outs. No jack or paired board and i am gone. Ouch and double ouch. Which brings me back to the "queen rule". Wise words indeed.
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Ah, that's just bad luck and nothing could be done about it. Your thinking was sound. As for me, AQ suited in spades is actually my favorite suited hand and always treats me better than AK.
By the way, my memory is long. I remember a Jokers tournament where you went all-in with AQ and I called you with AK. I seem to recall divorcing my "poker husband" after that hand LOL. It's all just timing.
Keep playing the way you play. You're good.
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