Nice Hand, Sir
Okay, so I've never actually had a Royal Flush in poker when playing without wilds...until this last weekend.
Much like a hole-in-one in golf, or a 300 game in bowling I imagine...it's pretty damn cool to have something like that happen and for you to be the one doing it. I wasn't playing online or on the boat, and no serious money changed hands, but I am thankful that Doug didn't fold since I got to enjoy the hand longer that way. In fact since we were early into the game, he wasn't paying enough attention to realize the flush had hit and he reraised me all-in thinking we were splitting the pot with matching straights, so hey the $20 doesn't hurt either--it is a small bet in the games he plays at the boat and it's a nice pot for me and my small-stakes game.
I was dealt AsJs and raised the big blind, but at the same time I was thinking to myself.. 'Ace-Jack...a hand many people die on.' It's known to be not such a great hand for no-limit poker, but very nice in low-limit like we were playing (we play .30/.60 blinds, everyone buys in for $20).
The flop came Ks, Ts and something red, I forget what. I either bet and he called or I may have checked and called him. I'm not really excited about the chances at that point because it's still only 2 chances at 1 card in the deck, but hey a flush makes me money here most of the time, so that's good enough for me. Then the Qs hit...
My mind immediately forgot about what money I could earn on the hand and started thinking "O...kay... Wow. Now how can I make sure I get to show this hand, and not in that 'oh you folded, good move because I had' way."
Poker face wasn't an issue as I was ready to make the nut flush with any spade, and now with the nuts...(and I mean THE nuts.... usually you preface nuts with 'stone cold' or 'absolute' or something like that when your hand is better than a full house) well I was doing a good job of smiling on the inside at this point, but selling the concerned 'hmm, do you have it, or are we both still racing?' look that everyone in is expected to throw in this situation.
I did say 'I have to bet this hand' as I bet the turn, but people say that when they have a good draw, two pair, or even a set, so I figured it to be a nice smokescreen. Doug and I always tend to not believe each other (/salute) so I actually had a feeling he would call me even if he had just a pair. An ace hit the river and I bet, he raised, so I figured he had the lower flush then...reraise right back at you. He reraised ME then again...which made me wonder what the heck he had..had the board paired? I admit when you have a royal flush you reallly don't look very hard at the other cards...unlike about any other poker hand. We were not allowing 5-of-a-kinds tonight ya know? So I reraise again, and Sarah or someone said 'holy...' and then Doug says 'i'm all in' and sadly, the first thing I thought was not 'Ah Doug, I'm sorry,' no the first thing I thought was 'hey, that's $20, cool!' and then I thought, 'ah man, I'm sorry' and I felt a bit bad turning em over... Especially when we all realized at the same time that Doug hadn't noticed 3 spades on the board, so he had made a fatal misread. *I* have done that before when a flush hit too, so I know it happens. Sometimes you are just thinking of all the other potential hands and forget about the flush.
P.S. Doug was a good sport and could care less about the money because he's hit the same hand on the boat before with a poor dude making quads in front of him and a third maniac in front of both of them pushing all his chips. That pays pretty well no matter what limits you're playing, trust me.
AKQJT spades. Nice hand, sir.
And I tripled up for the night, so I did play okay when I wasn't being handed cards as well. Against that table, that's a good night too, there are no easy fish in that group.
My other funny hand that night was when I hadn't looked at my cards yet and I said, 'you I know I'm going to have to raise you because I have pocket rockets here.' Then I looked at them and yes, they were Aces... They held up too and I got called all the way down since you can't take anyone serious who lies like that then starts betting heavily. Better to be lucky than psychic.
p.s. The phrase in the title comes from a funny pokerism/t-shirt that goes, 'Nice Hand, Sir...and by hand I mean Catch, and by Sir I mean moron.'
Much like a hole-in-one in golf, or a 300 game in bowling I imagine...it's pretty damn cool to have something like that happen and for you to be the one doing it. I wasn't playing online or on the boat, and no serious money changed hands, but I am thankful that Doug didn't fold since I got to enjoy the hand longer that way. In fact since we were early into the game, he wasn't paying enough attention to realize the flush had hit and he reraised me all-in thinking we were splitting the pot with matching straights, so hey the $20 doesn't hurt either--it is a small bet in the games he plays at the boat and it's a nice pot for me and my small-stakes game.
I was dealt AsJs and raised the big blind, but at the same time I was thinking to myself.. 'Ace-Jack...a hand many people die on.' It's known to be not such a great hand for no-limit poker, but very nice in low-limit like we were playing (we play .30/.60 blinds, everyone buys in for $20).
The flop came Ks, Ts and something red, I forget what. I either bet and he called or I may have checked and called him. I'm not really excited about the chances at that point because it's still only 2 chances at 1 card in the deck, but hey a flush makes me money here most of the time, so that's good enough for me. Then the Qs hit...
My mind immediately forgot about what money I could earn on the hand and started thinking "O...kay... Wow. Now how can I make sure I get to show this hand, and not in that 'oh you folded, good move because I had' way."
Poker face wasn't an issue as I was ready to make the nut flush with any spade, and now with the nuts...(and I mean THE nuts.... usually you preface nuts with 'stone cold' or 'absolute' or something like that when your hand is better than a full house) well I was doing a good job of smiling on the inside at this point, but selling the concerned 'hmm, do you have it, or are we both still racing?' look that everyone in is expected to throw in this situation.
I did say 'I have to bet this hand' as I bet the turn, but people say that when they have a good draw, two pair, or even a set, so I figured it to be a nice smokescreen. Doug and I always tend to not believe each other (/salute) so I actually had a feeling he would call me even if he had just a pair. An ace hit the river and I bet, he raised, so I figured he had the lower flush then...reraise right back at you. He reraised ME then again...which made me wonder what the heck he had..had the board paired? I admit when you have a royal flush you reallly don't look very hard at the other cards...unlike about any other poker hand. We were not allowing 5-of-a-kinds tonight ya know? So I reraise again, and Sarah or someone said 'holy...' and then Doug says 'i'm all in' and sadly, the first thing I thought was not 'Ah Doug, I'm sorry,' no the first thing I thought was 'hey, that's $20, cool!' and then I thought, 'ah man, I'm sorry' and I felt a bit bad turning em over... Especially when we all realized at the same time that Doug hadn't noticed 3 spades on the board, so he had made a fatal misread. *I* have done that before when a flush hit too, so I know it happens. Sometimes you are just thinking of all the other potential hands and forget about the flush.
P.S. Doug was a good sport and could care less about the money because he's hit the same hand on the boat before with a poor dude making quads in front of him and a third maniac in front of both of them pushing all his chips. That pays pretty well no matter what limits you're playing, trust me.
AKQJT spades. Nice hand, sir.
And I tripled up for the night, so I did play okay when I wasn't being handed cards as well. Against that table, that's a good night too, there are no easy fish in that group.
My other funny hand that night was when I hadn't looked at my cards yet and I said, 'you I know I'm going to have to raise you because I have pocket rockets here.' Then I looked at them and yes, they were Aces... They held up too and I got called all the way down since you can't take anyone serious who lies like that then starts betting heavily. Better to be lucky than psychic.
p.s. The phrase in the title comes from a funny pokerism/t-shirt that goes, 'Nice Hand, Sir...and by hand I mean Catch, and by Sir I mean moron.'
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