Hitting quads, not getting a bad beat!
Yes ladies and gentlemen, you read that well, I flopped an original four of a kind the other day and I was not sucked out by a better four of a kind. However, the river gave me the creeps for about three seconds.
Three was the magic number in this hand, because it was quad threes I made right on the flop, playing in a big field tournament (+600 players). Look at my gem of the month:
“You gave the guy with QQ a bad beat”, I hear you say? Not exactly, when you make a minraise under the gun with this kind of hands you deserve a punishment. On the flop he makes a pot sized bet but his story’s already over right there: I of course just call his bets, I want this other fella to donate me some chips too. I think I make a perfect value bet on the river to extract some more chips and I am completely happy after this hand: hitting quads is one, making as much profits out of it as possible is two. 1+1=5 590 chips.