What was your BEST hand?

Just to balance out all the repetitive bad beat threads.

Tell us about the WINNING hand that you'll remember forever.

Biggest cash, sweetest hit, the time you took out that guy, the funniest game (with jokes please), or the time you stumbled upon a table full of really loose rich people .....etc.


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The time I pushed all in UTG with 10J off suit in a casino when I was short stacked and got called by AJ and the flop gave him two pair (and me bottom pair). I rivered a royal flush. I went on to finish 4th in the tournament, going out with A6 vs K5.

I'll always remember one hand of 5 Card Draw with a buddy for $40, he delt and his second card was the one marked ace in the deck and we still argue about wether he cheated or not... cheating bastard.

I was playing Stud 8 and I got rolled 7's and made quads on 4th, my opponent made Aces Full ( someone else got the case Ace).

oh quads vs full aces is realy nice hand,

my best hands was in the begining of a 50$ freeroll at pitbull poker site i had 3 times in a row KK, KK, KK. 2 first double ups and the 3rd people was afraid to enter the pot with me i showed the KK

and another good han is my only Royal flash was in play money Texas holdem at some shity room i dont even remember the name the best hands was at not importent games hehe

I remember my first time in a real casino. I was playing a $2/4 limit holdem and was holding pocket aces. Flop came QQA. 2 other people at the table had the Q so the pot was nice (around $70 if i remember correctly). The thing I remember is how my hands were shaking as I raked the pot and tried to stack my chips.

Can`t remember the exact stacks, but chip leader had about 500k, I had 300k, other guy had 250k.

Blinds were something like 8k/4k

I had A10s on button. Raised 3 times pot. Big stack acting after me called, other guy folds.

Flop JQsAh. I bet about 20k, he calls. Turn Ks royal flush !!!

I bet about 40k, he calls.

And it gets better

River Kh. About 170k in pot. I`m left with about 180k - how do I make it look like I am betting with an option to fold. 60K will do. I bet, he puts me all in. I call.

He shows AK - FH on river, Oh happy days

Best hand was about 30 yrs ago. At my new to be brother-in-laws stag. Playing 7 card Murder $1/$2 (If you pair the board you pay the pot, than you can raise with what it cost you). I had J6 with 6 showing, I hit a J on 4th street and buddy paired. He paid the pot and than raised same amount, I called. On 5th street I paired my 6. I paid the pot and than raised same amount, he called. By 7th street there was over $2,000 in the pot that I took down with my boat. He had hit a set of 8's. 2K 30 yrs ago was a lot to me.

Worst beat was at a final table with 3 left I was chip leader. Holding pkt Ks, flop comes down K 10 10, we got it all in and buddy was holding pkt 10s. I was out next hand in 3rd.

easy to remember it was last week my first RoyalFlush !!

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One night at the casino i sat down to a table with half a football team sitting there who had money comming out there ears and had learned there only poker knowlege from watching the odd WSOP game on tv . buy in was $200 and i cashed out with $5000 with the funniest moment when one guy tried to bluff me with his whole stack after the flopp came down AAK while i was holding AK

Very first hand ever playing LIVE poker. I'm dealt QQ, put in a moderate raise, 3x BB. Get 4 callers....flop comes Q-10-10. Bet out 1/2 pot, two fold but two callers...turn comes Q, I check it...both go all in. One player had a ten, the other caught his flush on the river. And a long career was been born.....I can't play Q's anymore, they always seem to get me beat...lol.

i have 2-2 i chek the flops came as 10 2 one player raise i check it the flush is 8 he rise i chek and the river is 8 he rise i am all in he had as and 10

"Best" Hand I am defining as most profitable of 2008:

Poker Stars, $0.50/$1 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 9 Players
Hand History Converter by Stoxpoker

SB: $100 (100 bb)
BB: $82.90 (82.9 bb)
UTG: $100 (100 bb)
UTG+1: $100 (100 bb)
MP1: $116.80 (116.8 bb)
MP2: $105.05 (105.1 bb)
MP3: $103 (103 bb)
CO: $102.55 (102.6 bb)
Hero (BTN): $100 (100 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is BTN with K K
3 folds, MP2 raises to $3, MP3 calls $3, CO calls $3, Hero raises to $15, 2 folds, MP2 calls $12, MP3 calls $12, CO calls $12

Flop: ($61.50) K 2 T (4 players)
MP2 bets $90.05 and is all-in, MP3 folds, CO folds, Hero calls $85 and is all-in

Turn: ($231.50) Q (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: ($231.50) 4 (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: $231.50 pot ($3 rake)
MP2 showed A A (a pair of Aces) and lost (-$100 net)
Hero showed K K (three of a kind, Kings) and won $228.50 ($128.50 net)

As chip leader at a final table of a small tourney I pick up J♣ 10♣ on my big blind and call a small raise with 2 additional callers flop comes 9♣ Q♣ K♣. I check, 1st villain bets gets raised by the guy behind him, other player folds I call the raise and the first villain pops it again, the 2nd guy shoves, I take my time before eventually calling hoping to show weakness and entice the first villain in. He goes all in and I call, 1st guy has the nut flush, 2nd guy has a set of 9's and there are no cards left in the deck to help either of them. Royal was impossible because I had the J♣10♣ and quads dont beat a nut straight flush.

Its the first time I can ever remember flopping the stone cold nuts where there are 0 cards in the deck to help any person sitting at the entire table, let alone in the hand

Most memorable:
Put in what I thought was a good sized raise under the gun with QQ, got 5 callers. Flopped mid set, bet again, got 4 callers. Turn put 3 spades on the board so I checked, everyone else checked. Next card put another spade on the board. I had no idea what suits my cards were, so I checked hoping someone would bet and I could look back at my cards inconspicuously. Everyone checked and I uncovered the nut flush. The players were so loose and inexperienced they probably would have called anything I bet. I started always looking at my cards a second time right before the flop so I won't forget the suits!

Strongest:
Got to the turn with a good sized pot, lots of chips behind, mid pair and up/down straight flush draw. I bet, other guy pushes all in with about a third of the pot with top pair and A high flush draw. I call and hit a Q high straight flush on the river. I've hit quads a couple times playing live but never could get much value for them.

Sweetest read:
Final table, 4 players left - me and one other player. Board was 8 high at turn, other guy bets about half my stack. I could tell he was looking for any excuse to get out of the hand. I push all in. He gets pissed, talking about how I have A high and I'll win the hand then folds and shows K high. I show him my Q high. I now have enough chips to play with, he's on tilt and my super tight table image is shattered. They don't know what I'm doing.

biggest winning hand was playing 6 12 limit had KK and flopped quads and 2 other guys kept betting into the pot raise and reraise all the way thru the river . it was a dream come true. biggest loser I was playing no limit at Tahoe had JJ.flopped J 10 10,from the button3 people bet and raise guy in my right goes all in with A 10 for 400 then hits a 10 on the turn.every body at the table was hoping i would catch the J for the bad beat jackpot but not to be.

I would have too say at a $1/$2 No limit ring game, started wr gdith 40 (minimum allowed) 3rd hand in i get AA raise preflop (10$) person after me raises 30 (putting me all in) i called he had JJ i won, Very next hand i get ak clubs raise too 7$, 2 callers (same guys i doubled up off last hand) Flop A 3c 4c (pair of a's flush draw) bet 10, next guy raises, other guy calls i go all in (same guy from last hand calls) other guy folds. Club on river says it all. so now im up too around $180 or so. VERY NEXT HAND again, i call with 44, the guy that i doulbed up off TWO TIMES IN A ROW, goes all in for 92$, i called he had a j, no a or j hit and i took every last cent from that guy :-)

The best hand I have gotten is only a quads. Never got a straight flush or royal flush.

One of my favorite hands was the time I effectively took out Cinbad in a BoDog tournament. (He had 60 chips - one big blind - left after the hand, so it wasn't technically a knockout.) I raised from third position with A-9 of hearts, Cinbad (who was directly to my left) and one other player called. The flop was 10-9-4 rainbow. I lead out for a little less than 2/3 the pot, Cinbad instantly min-raised, the other player folded, and I called, both to get more information on the turn and because middle pair may be good when you're playing Cinbad. The turn was an Ace. I checked, he insta-shoved, I called, and he showed 8-8. The river missed him, and I won the pot.

My favorite part about the hand though, was Cinbad's reaction - he kept ranting in the chat-box about how it should have been obvious that he had a set. I didn't say anything (I don't do chat), but I had to laugh at that. First of all, he clearly didn't have a set. Second, I had played with him enough to know he's fully capable of making a move like that, and it was very satisfying to pick him off.