Okay, so I've never been much of a "trust your feelings" kind of a poker player. I prefer to rely on logic and at least some rudimentary form of statistics, rather than gut instinct.
How, then, do I explain this?
I was playing in a freeroll tournament on
PokerStars one night, and was dealt
. The table was playing very loose, and normally I would not enter the pot with that hand on a loose table unless I was in the blinds. (That hand is not strong enough to stand up to other hands that someone might get lucky with on a loose table.) However, before I knew what I was doing, I found myself calling. I actually said to myself, "What the heck am I doing?" Then the flop came:
.
"Cool," I thought. "I guess I got lucky." I bet 3x BB and had two callers. Then the turn was dealt:
. I had a full house on the turn. I raised 5x BB, the callers stayed in, and the river was a
. No possibility of straights or flushes to scare me, so I pushed all in. The callers followed. One of them had the
for 3 of a Kind, but the other had nothing (a pair, I think.) I took a big pot, and went on to win the tourney.
Here's my question: What made me call that Q6s when I wouldn't normally do that? Was it instinct? Am I developing an innate sense of how the cards fall? Or was it just a spastic movement of my index finger? Or is it something else?