[poka902]

AA is my favourite starting hand but then again i bet its lots of players favourite.

[Mightyorb]

I personally like 9K suited or 8 Q suited, as far as AVERAGE starting hands.

..I feel they are deceptive and difficult for other players to read my hand when I get these types of cards.

...Value gets added when the flop semi-hits.....Cuasing the pot odds to be worth chasing in many cases on the turn and river.

Orb

[MBS888]

Whats Is your Favourite No Limit Starting hand and why, or do you try not to have a "favourite hand"?

I would have to say AA because i play to win and AA is the most likely to win. However, there's more satifaction when winning from being underdog.

[AGreen]

I'm not sure if I've answered this before, so here goes. Other than all the obvious premiums, my favorite hand is . It's one of those hands that can hit a tricky flop and usually get paid off.

[Jagrbst]

It has to be the 9-7 of spades, you see I flopped a straight flush in one of the side events of the WSOP while the other one hit tripps, check bet call, and turn was another 10 (the board were J-10-8 S) to give my opponent a four of a kind. bet raise, re-raise, all-in, call, and doubled up to end up in 12:th in that tourney taking home $44,800.

[Mr Mardy Arse]

My favourite starting hand is 6,3 hearts... Just hearts no other suit... Every time i have this hand I win the pot, even if i bluff it and take the pot down, I don't know why but it gives me more confidence to enter to a pot than an AK... The first time i played it and this is what got me started i flopped a staright flush.... So then i started limping in with 3,6 suited and unless it was hearts i'd just have to fold, but i have even flopped a full house with this hand, I know it's a bad stategy to have a 'lucky' hand as it could be a major downfall, but untill i lose with it I'm sticking with it.... I've even beat pocket Aces with this hand.....


Danny

[dovla]

in last time i really started to like J10 (posibbly suited)!
it's the awesome hand - for me worth calling a 3-4bb raise! this hand has awesome implied odds..

i was in big loss on sunday on titan 0.25/0.5 on a table full of donkeys.. they fished me lot of times, sucked me couple, i tilted the rest (big loss for me - about 60 euros!) .. but later i crashed the airline company with j10 making a str8 and recovered all my loss + gained a profit of 10-15 euros at the end of session

J10suited rocks!

[Slava_sky]

winning one.

[arnyone]

the best cards in the whole world

[wptdreamer]

Originally Posted by checkRaiseFold

Gotta be AA. No better poker feeling then landing that. No worse feeling then losing with it either.

I guess this is a good place to ask,,, so, its early in the tourny, blinds arent high, no one has much more then the next player, you are in late position of what seems to be a loose tourny... do you play this aggressive? Or is this the time to slow play?

I have never slowed played AA... I see it as this easy, any two cards they have gives them six cards to hit. True they need to hit at least two of them to get the two pair to beat me, but if they do I only have 2 outs to catch up. If i do hit it they still have 4 outs! And then if a possible straight comes out they have more outs, and if they have a possible flush more outs. All the while mine will almost never change. Bottom line is AA is not unbeatable, and any donkey can crack them, make them pay dearly to try. If I ever have slowplayed it has been heads up or 3 handed when it starts getting tight. As far as my favorite hand, I don't have one, but I love when I am in the big blind with garbage that hits big. That hand that no one can put you on, they have no clue what you have. Even better if you hit big and some big overcards out to get them a piece. For some reason everyone thinks blinds never hit and if they get a piece they try to run with it. I do my check call they think I'm on a draw and lose their stack to me play.