Elky is a beast - Page 2

On June 02 2009 21:47 KizZBG wrote:
Ok what the fuck happened? I don't know anything about poker lol.

On June 02 2009 22:30 hymn wrote:

Elky had a pair of queens, the other guy also had the pair of queens but had the higher card Ace as a kicker. Elky had the Jack as a kicker. So if they go to showdown where the people show the cards to each other and it is decided who wins the money, Elky would lose. Also what's interesting is the action when they knew only the hole cards - the QJ for Elky and the AQ for the Singapore guy. AQ is much much stronger hand than the QJ so the Singapore guy raises the pot. Now Elky is supposed to only call this bet with QJ cause it's a bad hand overall. But he raised it one more time which generally signalizes a lot of strength like a high pocket pair AA, KK, JJ, QQ or AK which also is very strong hand. So by raising Elky tried to force his opponent off the hand. But the other guy had a strong hand so he calls the raise to see the flop and evaluate. On the flop Elky had queens with the jack kicker. And he doesn't bet which usually can mean weakness or he can be trapping and waiting to substantially raise a bet. So when the other guy bet the money, Elky could have raised, called or folded. He chose to fold this hand. This decision is what's impressive because a top pair is usually a good hand. But he thought and I guess his train of thought was maybe something like: ok he raised preflop first in, I raised him more, he called. Now a queen and two bad cards come. And I check so he bets into me. He might be stealing the pot. Or he might really have a big hand. What hand could he have played like this? A bluff? Big pocket pair for sure. And also a higher queen than mine. Low pockets are out of the question, people don't usually play them like this preflop. I guess my hand is not worth the risk so I muck it.