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This is a hand which took place at our recent live tournament. With the blinds still quite small, I picked up (Qd,9d) in the small blind. Two players limped in, then a third player on the button thought for a moment before flat calling too. I also called, and five players went to the flop. The flop came down (6d,7h,Jd).

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The action was checked around to the button who put in a rather large bet of 700. I felt if he had a set there would have been a raise preflop with his pocket pair, and perhaps he would have bet smaller too despite the two diamonds. He may have had a straight draw, which seemed more likely, but then he could easily have had nothing at all too. Either way, with a flush draw I called. The turn brought an (8c) now giving me an open ended straight draw too, and I checked, expecting it to be made expensive for me to draw to my flush and straight. Thankfully my opponent checked too, and the river was a perfect (10d). I bet 1,200 and was called, with my opponent turning up (A,A) and complaining about how lucky I had been.

This is of course ridiculous, as he had allowed five players in by not raising it preflop, which was difficult to understand and of course poor play. He would have been very lucky for his Aces to hold up against four other players, and I don’t think anyone could blame me for calling the 700 on the flop. If there had been an all in bet on the turn I would have been in a difficult position and also might have felt compelled to fold. This was the first of two occassions that evening that I ended up beating pocket Aces with diamond flush.

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