Whats the biggest poker pot youve won?

[wingy123]

Just curious at the kind of levels our players here play at?

So.....
Whats the biggest pot youve won, what were the two hands, and what site?

Mine is $1350 on laddies, on a $2.50/$5 table, with J J

raised to 15, bb raised to 60 i call

Flop K Q J all different suits, i check he bets 100 i have to reraise, he goes all in, now i feel i must be behind to overtrips but im committed so call

Turn 4

River 4

He turns over A 10

Couldnt believe he'd reraised me to $60 pre flop with A10 off suit but there ya go

[rayzor]

That is a mega pot for a low stakes cash game. What was your opponent thinking of?

[wasimbutt2007]

I think the running here saved you as your opponenet flopped a straight hence the all in. So you shouldn't have been surprised , sorry to say but you got lucky there!

[fairfranco]

was hit A 10 suited?

obviously on the flp he was ahead so from there his move was pretty obvious.

I've had the odd raise on an A 10 sometimes depending on what position I'm in.

I don't think I could handle poker at those sizes losing $500 to a cheeky river full house!

or in the other way and seeing the other player has a straight against my trip at the flop.

Nice win though

[gutshot]

In cash games re-raising with AT preflop is not a bad play against an opening raiser and is a profitable play when used correctly and not over used, as most hands dont stand up to a re-raise. When Wingy calls his opponent will know he's behind so should tread carefully on the flop, until he hits the nuts! From then on his opponent got all the money in when he was ahead.

Personally I think his opponent played the hand well.

[The Shark]

Yeah agree, he did fine and you got lucky

Would rather have A 10 than JJ any day - so many more options, especially cathing people out who over play a pocket pair or 2 pair or trips when you hit a straight!

[wingy123]

i have to agree and disagree with everyone here lol

Yes i agree i got lucky but i think reraising a raise with A10 is a ticket to he poor house personally.

Yes sometimes you might take the pot down pre flop but the problems start if you get a call. If you get reraised you have to fold because your clearly behind unless someone is making a play but you cant take that risk with A10 surely?

If you get a call and the flop comes A high lets say A 7 4, what do you think to yourself? If your opponent has an ace, its very likely that your behind. Yes you may have got lucky and your opponent has JJ, QQ, KK.

Your second to act aswell. If your opponent bets in first position, youve got to put him on an ace. so what do you do?

If he checks, you're almost obliged to bet as youve reraised pre flop. Again, sometimes you might get the pot because your opponent had a pocket pair. However, what if you get check-raised or your opponent just calls? If you get raised, you've got to think your behind and lay it down. If you get called, youve got to think your behind aswell and now face another card hoping for a ten to outdraw AK, AQ.

You might disagree with me but i feel that reraising with A10 gets you into unnecessary trouble. If you just call and you get KQJ or you get an ace high board, you can play with more confidence and work out the hand easier because your opponent will be expected to make the first bet because he is the raiser.

If he bets an ace high flop you can reraise to find out where you are and it will cost you less money than the previous scenario. Or you can just call, if he did have JJ,QQ,KK he now knows hes up against at least an ace and you can probably take the pot on the turn unless he hit trips. If he puts in a bigger bet on the turn, you can get away from the hand accepting that he had AK,AQ,AJ and your behind.

My actual hand was a unlikely example of what could happen in the scenario of A10 v pp between JJ and KK. My problem with A10 is, unless your re-raise has scared your opponent, you have to hit big on the flop. a 10 high board isnt good enough. you need 2 pair munimum to feel your ahead.

[wingy123]

Would rather have A 10 than JJ any day - so many more options, especially cathing people out who over play a pocket pair or 2 pair or trips when you hit a straight!

rather you than me shark, ill take JJ against A10 every day of the week and twice on sunday!!

[shawn99]

I would rather have the JJ as well over the AT... better going in with a pair and knowing where you stand as oppose to hitting your A and not knowing if your kicker is good enough to handle a raise.

[Andy4Fingers]

I'd much sooner have the JJ pre flop too.

I had a quick look at the odds and pre flop it's 67% in favour of the Jacks if the A 10 is suited, 71% to the JJ if the A 10 is off suit.

I also had a look at the odds in the example given. After the flop (assuming the A 10 wasn't suited) Wingy was a 34.5% chance to win. After the 4 on the turn it was a 22.7% chance of him winning. But as we all know poker is played to the river and he hit the full house.

Aside from this I'm not a big fan of A 10, it's been unlucky for me a few times in the past. I know past incidents have no bearing on future ones but state of mind wise I don't like playing A 10 now.

[campbell64]

My Best days poker was when I won a laddies $1500 freeroll, there were 5500 players and it took around 5 hours to complete, I was totally drained at the end but my $375 for coming first paid for the car tax. This happened 2 years ago when I was a relative beginner.

[jbmla16]

A 10 reraise preflop was fine, as was his all in once flopping the straight, he sucked you in and you lucked out on turn and river for an unlikely jacks full of fours, you could have been the one who was $$$$s out of pocket