Here is a Q&A from a poker student that I was working a few weeks ago and I thought showed some good thoughts and was worth talking about in more depth.
His question was:
"One hand worth mentioning, I had Ah 9h, the flop came 10h 6h Jc, I was on the button and put it a pot size bet of $60, three players folded and the guy to my right, called, the turn card was 7h, after sitting out many hands I finally picked up a nut flush. I made a 3x the pot size bet, the player on my right, raised. So I am looking at the board and I see my three hearts I needed for the nut flush and I re raised him and he re raised me so I call thinking Ok, he is going to lose a bunch of chips. The river card is elementary, 2d. So I just check to him to see what he's going to do and he puts in all his chips, about $120 so I call. Whamm! He turns over 8h 9h. I don't know if I had studied the board a little harder I might have seen it coming but there was no way I was going to drop the nut flush. Again, I saw the hearts but I was negligent to look at the ranking of the card and if I had have, I probably would not have put him on a straight flush."
There is just not much you can do about that. If you have the nut flush and someone happens to hit a straight flush, then that is just poker and you move on. The amount of times your nut flush will win compared to the straight flush hitting is enormous, so you just have to take the good with the bad and not get frustrated. The worst thing you can do is get paranoid and start thinking that your monster hands will always be beaten by another monster. Sometimes you just get unlucky, but you have to play your strong hands strong or you are in trouble.
In a big multi-table Full Tilt tournament last night, I saw another player at my table hit a set of T's on the flop. He was in a hand against a player who had been incredibly loose, got all his chips in and the other guy had flopped a set of Ace's (the flop was A-T-5) There is just not anything you can do about that. 9 times out of 10 that set of T's will be up against A-K or A-Q or something else that a player is willing to bet to the River with and he would have put him all out. This time it cost the guy with the T's. That is the way it goes, but the only way you are going to make money, is by making it off your premium hands.
In 2008 WSOP Daniel Negrenau busted out when his set that he hit on the Flop ran up against another, higher, set. Bad luck and bad timing, you then is no way you can fold your big hand in that situation.
His question was:
"One hand worth mentioning, I had Ah 9h, the flop came 10h 6h Jc, I was on the button and put it a pot size bet of $60, three players folded and the guy to my right, called, the turn card was 7h, after sitting out many hands I finally picked up a nut flush. I made a 3x the pot size bet, the player on my right, raised. So I am looking at the board and I see my three hearts I needed for the nut flush and I re raised him and he re raised me so I call thinking Ok, he is going to lose a bunch of chips. The river card is elementary, 2d. So I just check to him to see what he's going to do and he puts in all his chips, about $120 so I call. Whamm! He turns over 8h 9h. I don't know if I had studied the board a little harder I might have seen it coming but there was no way I was going to drop the nut flush. Again, I saw the hearts but I was negligent to look at the ranking of the card and if I had have, I probably would not have put him on a straight flush."
There is just not much you can do about that. If you have the nut flush and someone happens to hit a straight flush, then that is just poker and you move on. The amount of times your nut flush will win compared to the straight flush hitting is enormous, so you just have to take the good with the bad and not get frustrated. The worst thing you can do is get paranoid and start thinking that your monster hands will always be beaten by another monster. Sometimes you just get unlucky, but you have to play your strong hands strong or you are in trouble.
In a big multi-table Full Tilt tournament last night, I saw another player at my table hit a set of T's on the flop. He was in a hand against a player who had been incredibly loose, got all his chips in and the other guy had flopped a set of Ace's (the flop was A-T-5) There is just not anything you can do about that. 9 times out of 10 that set of T's will be up against A-K or A-Q or something else that a player is willing to bet to the River with and he would have put him all out. This time it cost the guy with the T's. That is the way it goes, but the only way you are going to make money, is by making it off your premium hands.
In 2008 WSOP Daniel Negrenau busted out when his set that he hit on the Flop ran up against another, higher, set. Bad luck and bad timing, you then is no way you can fold your big hand in that situation.
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