I'm probs checking the flop, easy enough to make reasonable bet sizes and get your stack in on the turn and/or river. Most of the time when you bet the flop people will just fold

lol at the call down

edit - also when you 4 bet and then bet that small on the flop it looks really suspicious to any decent player

Thanks for the advice, it's much appreciated.

You got all their chips, job done, congrats. Is this a veiled brag or serious, flopping the stone cold nuts and getting paid depends on your opponents, what they've done in the past hands and how they currently perceive you. Can't say much more without that info, but looks like you did fine here, seeing as they paid you off with T9.

No honestly it's not. This was a completely irrelevent freeroll and the play was correspondingly loose. Players were calling with anything and everything so I've nothing to brag about. However, I have never been in this situation before and thus didn't really know what to do (not that it mattered in such an inconsequential freeroll). I therefore want to get advice on how to play such hands in case it arises in more important occasion against better players?

If say, this was the Sunday Million and the other players weren't donking out the tournament for fun, would my play have made it completely obvious that I was so strong or whatnot?

I would have bet 3/4 of the pot on the flop to price out a draw, and if that was called I'd check fold the turn.

I actually employ this tactic when I have a monster early in freeroll tourneys and 2 cent MTTs. The reason is that the level is so loose that bad players will call because they don't care because the stakes are so low and are very loose and good players will call with mediocre hands because they won't put you on anything (they'll just think it's another loose donk).

I'd bet and call the river myself, but I'm a fish so yeah.

I tried to put this hand through the hand history converter but I couldn't get it to work. If someone who knows how could convert the hand history it would be much appreciated.

Anyway, I would appreciate any advice on how to play monster hands. I recently had flopped the stone cold nuts in a mixed PLO/PLH freeroll and am not sure if I played it correctly. I never really know what to do when I know I'm ahead, I think I kinda get too scared of losing my customer and not getting paid.

I would appreciate any pointers as to how I could've perhaps played this hand better
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PokerStars Hand #83473558369: Tournament #586786168, Freeroll Mixed PLH/PLO (Hold'em Pot Limit) - Level III (20/40) - 2012/07/17 17:44:10 ET
Table '586786168 73' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 1: Crot4le (3240 in chips)
Seat 2: rafastifler (19460 in chips)
Seat 3: takitibi67 (3060 in chips)
Seat 4: mdcmaycon (7625 in chips)
Seat 5: lVlorrison (1385 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 6: jacpen214 (1145 in chips)
Seat 7: UPYOHO (1385 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 8: stuba01 (1455 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 9: GorillaStars (1395 in chips) is sitting out
UPYOHO: posts small blind 20
stuba01: posts big blind 40
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Crot4le [ ]
GorillaStars: folds
Crot4le: raises 80 to 120
rafastifler: raises 300 to 420
takitibi67: folds
mdcmaycon: calls 420
lVlorrison: folds
jacpen214: folds
UPYOHO: folds
stuba01: folds
Crot4le: raises 580 to 1000
rafastifler: calls 580
mdcmaycon: calls 580
*** FLOP *** [ ]
UPYOHO has returned
Crot4le: bets 560
rafastifler: folds
mdcmaycon: calls 560
*** TURN *** [ ] []
Crot4le: bets 600
mdcmaycon: calls 600
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
Crot4le: bets 1080 and is all-in
mdcmaycon: calls 1080
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Crot4le: shows [ ] (four of a kind, Queens)
mdcmaycon: shows [ ] (a pair of Queens)
Crot4le collected 7540 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 7540 | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: Crot4le showed [ ] and won (7540) with four of a kind, Queens
Seat 2: rafastifler folded on the Flop
Seat 3: takitibi67 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: mdcmaycon showed [ ] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 5: lVlorrison folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: jacpen214 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: UPYOHO (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: stuba01 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: GorillaStars folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Pretty special achievement from Sam to be top Brit two years running isn't it?

Definately, incredible achievement.

Sam Holden .... big triple up
 
The hand began with Holden shoving all in for 775,000 from the hijack seat, then Andrew Flaherty called from the button. Jean Malherbe then reraised all in from the big blind, and after thinking for a while Flaherty let his hand go.
 
Holden turned over and Malherbe , and at the sight of those hands Flaherty buried his head in his hands as though he'd wished he'd stayed in the hand.
 
The community cards came to give Holden a straight, so perhaps Flaherty was better off not to have called, although he now sits on a short stack.


Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2012-world-series-of-poker/event-61-no-limit-hold-em-main-event/

Not saying he isn't decent but a lot of the hands reported were where he was 3 betting with shit and flipping world. Spose that's how u win

 

Cheong looks a bit like Jar Jar Binks with his hoodie up

Great player without a doubt, you can't flook three straight day fives.

4,1,2,3,5

You have to cut him off financially, as long as he can carry on relying on you to help him out he doesn't have to face up to the fact that he needs to get a job.

That's such sound advice.

http://www.bluffeurope.com/poker-news/en/London-s-Hippodrome-Casino-opens-today_12149.aspx



Wonder what poker tourneys they'll be putting on

On the plus side, Liv Boeree has just busted another player to move over 400k.

 

Victoria Coren is out.