The Poker Mag

As poker players, we all get curious as to what would have happened on the flop after ourselves, or an opponent has folded. Checking through the cards to find out, is known as ‘rabbit hunting’ and isn’t something you could do in a professional tournament really. In our local game however, it does happen sometimes, and on this particular evening, myself and my opponent decided to look and see what would have happened. From fairly late position, I had (K,K) in the hole, and put in a raise.

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The small blind reraised, the big blind folded, and after some consideration I pushed all in. First of all, I felt if he did indeed have a hand, he might call, which I wouldn’t mind too much, but I was wary of the fact that any hand he could call with would probably contain an ace. With that in mind I felt I would be happy to pick up the pot right there, but if he wanted to play the hand, I was going to make sure it would cost him everything to do so. After sitting and thinking for some time and saying he thought he might be in front, my opponent laid the hand down. It is important to remember that I have a table image of being capable of anything here, and as that of a player who likes to bluff. So I wasn’t too surprised when my opponent turned over (A,9).

Then of course, we checked the flop that would have fallen….(A,A,4). Needless to say, my friend and opponent wasn’t too pleased, but that soon changed as we checked what the turn and river would have been. Had he called, I would have needed one of two kings left in the deck, and incredibly, I would have hit both of them with a King on the turn, and another King on the river. My opponent missed out on the chance of a great bad beat story of course, but somehow… I don’t think he will mind too much.