I believe that being able to detect big hands when you also got big hands is crucial if you want to make the transition from being a reasonably good player (not saying I am already a strong player but well, anyways......) to a very strong player. Of course if fold your straight or bottom set or bottom full house all everytime someone re raises you on the turn or river you are going to make lots and lots of bad folds.
So what I want to do is get as many as possible hands from cash games and tournaments where decent players both get something ranging from reasonably good hands like two pair (especially top two pairs like AK or AQ), to sets and bigger hands while another player also got some big hand as well.
It would be better if you provide hands of medium (and bigger) stakes cash games and medium (and bigger) buy-in tournaments, especially those from big live tournaments. It can be your hands or anyone´s, provided both (or all players involved) players having hands that could potentially be the best hand at the showdown.
The plan is to make a assessment of all conditions (for both cash games and tournaments) of the situation, stack sizes, position, action pre flop, action post flop, reads on opponents on the given situation, and everything else you can think could affect the way a hand develops.
To begin, I´d like to mention curious hands where Negreanu lost to quads twice in the show High Stakes poker, once to Gus Hansen, and then to Eric Lindgren.
Vs Hansen.
Vs Lindgren
(notice how nervous Negreanu gets after being re-raised all-in on the river )
Dude folds jacks full at WSOP 2008
Dude gets his quad sixes killed by quad kings when a king hits the turn
These are obviously rarer hands while your most common common big hands would be set versus set and flushes versus straights for examples. The set versus set or big pair against low rainbow flop deserves special attention because a set is the most concealed big hand and is quite common and will often result in and all in situation that can result in a knock out of a tournament or someone losing a stack in a cash game.
I think if you get to the level where you can detect a bigger set and fold your
bottom or medium set then you sure are on your way to being a great player.
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