[Lytspeed]

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?

[Southern Yankee]

The very same thing has happened to me. Not very often though. Usually, I force myself to fold the hand my instinct strongly tells me to call, then the flop and "DANG" it hit what I folded.

There is one site I have played on, if you play it long enough you can tell what range the cards are gonna fall in. I don't know if this can be done on other sites because I have not played the other sites as steady as I did this one. That doesn't mean it helped me win anymore hands, but it did influence whether I stayed in for the flop.

[TriptreysNJ]

What happened there was a clear cut case of, "I am tired of playing premium hand all the time, and its time for a change, so dammit, may the poker gods be with me". I've seen it many times. And the funny part about it, is that by the people calling your all in, you now are gonna start thinking, hmmmmm, maybe entering with crap cards isnt so bad.....but you have to remember, you got way lucky, for not only to hit the flop, but to have to COMPLETE donkies catch some of the flop too and line your pockets all the way to the end......

Just be cautious about entering pots with crap, its the devil, and you will catch the shit end of the stick if you start thinkings its ok........Just warning you buddy, what you did wasnt smart, you just got lucky, I like your style and that wasnt it, and dont want to see something bad happen.....

[Lytspeed]

Originally Posted by TriptreysNJ

Just warning you buddy, what you did wasnt smart, you just got lucky, I like your style and that wasnt it, and dont want to see something bad happen.....

Thanks for the feedback, Trip. I agree, it felt totally out of character to just go with that Q6 hand. Occasionally I might play that, depending on position, table attitude, chip stack, and a whole bunch of other factors. But usually, I wouldn't wind up keeping it.

[Thinkerbell]

Maybe you took my poker mojo the last time we were at the same table, because it's working for you and I haven't seen it in a looooooooong time.