Party Poker reads my mind, I swear ...

[Dodoubled]

Check out this beauty:

***** Hand History for Game 3510595515 *****
$25 NL Texas Hold'em - Tuesday, February 07, 11:34:40 EDT 2006
Table Table 65318 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 3 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 4: chrismiha34 ( $51.30 )
Seat 1: Dodoubled ( $30.40 )
Seat 3: raptor1000 ( $20 )
Seat 6: ColdLuxury ( $21.45 )
Seat 2: untouchedi ( $23.40 )
Seat 5: stevens01111 ( $24.75 )
chrismiha34 posts small blind [$0.10].
stevens01111 posts big blind [$0.25].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Dodoubled [ Ad As ] --- Boom
ColdLuxury raises [$1].
Dodoubled raises [$3].
untouchedi folds.
raptor1000 calls [$3].
chrismiha34 calls [$2.90].
stevens01111 folds.
ColdLuxury calls [$2]. --- Now here, I know I'm ahead, and I'm seriously thinking to myself, "Man, I sure hope I don't get a single-suited flop right here."
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jh, Qh, 9h ] -- BOOM. And wouldn't ya know it? Neither one of my bullets matched up.
chrismiha34: raptor u love to see flops
chrismiha34 bets [$3].
ColdLuxury folds.
Dodoubled calls [$3].
raptor1000 raises [$6].
chrismiha34 calls [$3].
Dodoubled folds. -- Discipline, dammit!
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qc ]
chrismiha34 checks.
raptor1000 is all-In [$11]
chrismiha34 calls [$11].
** Dealing River ** [ 9c ]
chrismiha34 shows [ Ks, Tc ] a straight, nine to king. -- Wait until you see what the other guy called preflop with ...
raptor1000 shows [ 2h, 6h -- BOOM!!] a flush, queen high.
raptor1000 wins $46.80 from the main pot with a flush, queen high.

I love hands like this. I swear upon my own grave, I sat there thinking to myself, "Man, I always get single-suited flops with aces, and it's never a suit that I hold." And it always happens on Party. Aliens run that site, I'm telling you. And they all have giant probes in our brains that suck out our thoughts.

[Dodoubled]

C'mon people, out of the woodshed! I know I'm not the only one who truly, truly believes this ...

[GTDawg]

You need to think positive.

You get pocket As...think "I'm gonna flop quads". It's poker though. That's going to happen every once in a while and, especially online, people will call just for the hell of it.

[Talking Poker]

Gotta love it.

It probably wouldn't have mattered, but I think you should have raised a bit more prelfop.

Also, rather than calling and then folding to a minimum raise behind you, think about raising on that flop (min raise is ok) to find out where you stand. When the guy behind you doesn't go away after a bet and a raise in front of him, you know you're up against AT LEAST a flush draw - THEN I think it's ok to fold your hand. But where you folded, for just $3 more, I don't know that I could be sure my overpair wasn't still good. You could easily be upo against a hand like KQ.

If I was the original better, btw, I would have reraised hard for sure on the flop, which would have cost me a bunch more chips.

Then again, every piece of advice I am giving here would have cost the person I'm giving it to more money, so what do I know? In the long run, I think those are better plays though. Hopefully Zybomb or someone will chime in.

[Reel Deal]

Gf!

[MathBabe]

You just made me feel a whole lot better about the AA I folded after a single-suit flop last night. I didn't get to see the final cards, but I'm sure I would have seen something similar!