limping QQ BB 1-3
Hero ($600)
so I was put into a chop spot the whole table folded around QQ black im in the BB and SB is a (black young 20's lots of tattoos has played pretty loose bought in for 100$ is drinking and I don't think he's there to play poker most likely straight up gamble) has about half my stack 280 doesn't check his hand and says chop there's still a huge bad beat out there so I call flamingo he checks his hand calls.
Board is shit AK5 H he bets 10$
pot ($16)
I call turn another Q but its another H too
pot ($26)
he makes it 25$ I think about 3! but I don't like it at all lets see another card maybe boat up
pot ($76)
board comes a brick 7s
he takes his time drinking his beer and starts stacking chips makes it 120$
Hero?
4 Replies
I think people wil say don't check QQ preflop here. Or does calling "flamingo" mean something? I've never heard of that term.
Is the board 4 hearts? If so, fold.
Just chop every time. Playing every time is fine too, but if you are going to play this hand you should be raising it in position. The math says that you are losing money going to the flop just to chase the bad beat jackpot. It's a fish mindset.
Flop seems like a pretty standard fold when you have voluntarily invested $0 in the pot. The sb should never be bluffing here. For that same reason, I would jam the river. He's not bluffing, and it's hard to have AA, KK, or JT here, so you have the nuts. If you lose, it's just a cooler.
Also, fwiw, the notation "3!" is a 3bet. You are talking about "raising" on the turn, not 3betting.
So I ended up calling his 120$ because I like you was thinking he would have raised if his hand had been really strong. What's the worst I'm up against? If I had flipped him pre flop I'm calling for less I didn't see it as a bad spot since he neither raised pre flop either and the flop bet was pretty weak too.
He ended up having 55's which was very unfortunate for him because that's not even a flamingo hand if he had anything to beat me so what I lose an extra 70$ with QQ not gonna be upset strongest end of the range here.
I would have normally made it around 50 pre flop even from BB unless multi callers then size larger. But your absolutely right I should have at least made it 10$ pre flop since the pot has to be at least $20 for a bad beat anyways and I don't want garbage drawing out imagine 2 7 gets there with one of the H's you'd be sick lol.
I will for sure keep this in mind if I have another flamingo hand because your right if it was worth playing for one its gotta be worth playing for the other!
The math says that you are losing money going to the flop just to chase the bad beat jackpot. It's a fish mindset.
When one player wants to see the flop for a possible High Hand, the etiquette is to just check it down (only betting if the pot needs more money), and if the player who wants to play wins he surreptitously gives his opponent back his BB.
The player profile in question loves aces. I'd just fold. He's got nothing behind in case you do hit a queen so there's no odds to it. You should have raised him but as played, run away from the ace flop. You can get the money back.
So the SB wanted to chop and you wanted to play to try and hit a bad beat jackpot. The SB plays as per your request. Anything after this is mute. He didn't want to play the hand to begin with and you're turning it into something else.
