Four of a Kind with Pocket Deuces!

I was playing in a pokerstars tourney last night. I was down to 70cents in my cash account. Not willing to give a cent (literally) and uploading another $20 into my account, I decided to try a micro-limit tournament. The one I chose was a 10cent buy in, with 360 entrants, and it was a turbo game (meaning blinds went up faster then normal).

I ended up taking 5th in the tourney and netting myself a whopping $2.20, enough to buy into another couple micro tournaments. I had some phenomenal hands over the course of the tourney. I played very very tight aggressive poker and only played roughly 22% of all the hands I saw. One hand, in particular, stands out. The ultimate grand daddy of hands, Four of a Kind!

I play under the username "shockviper" (as seen in red lettering) so below you will see my table position and betting decisions as well as button placement. The blinds were 50/100 and we were in "round iv" of the tournament. Im dealt pocket deuces in the hot seat, play goes like this:



I limp in with pocket deuces in late position. The small blind calls and the big blind checks. The board comes out (Qd 2d Qs) giving myself a fullhouse. The first 3 spots check and Toto bets $200. Fuzzy folds and 1twoface calls the $200. Knowing the pot is now at $1100 I raise with an $800 bet, basically betting the pot. Cristina36 folds and Another Kame folds. But to my surprise, Isaya2 calls the $1000. Toto folds and 1twoface raises $523 putting himself all in for a total of $1523. At this point I put one of them on a Queen with a set, and the other one on a flush draw, which im hoping will hit. I call 1twofaces raise and so does isaya2.



The next card is a 9d placing a flush possibility on the board. Im hoping isaya2 has a flush here and bets. But instead the player checks, I go all in with $2363 and isaya2 calls with the rest of their chips ($447).



And the river card to my surprise is a 2c giving me a whopping four of a kind. Of course at this point I have every one all in, so its showdown time. I for sure thought that isaya2 was on a flush draw (which I was right) but I thought that 1twoface would show a queen, possibly a full house. Instead the player turned over pocket 10's.



It was a funny night for me, on this particular hand I was multi tabling at the time, and on the other table I was playing I also had pocket deuces (although I ended up folding those).

This example is the perfect reason why you should always play aggressive and at least see a flop with a pocket pair most of the time. If I had folded these (which I sometimes do in early position if their are raises in back of me) then I would of never seen this monster hand and would of been kicking myself. This win propelled me forward into the tourney giving me a substantial chip lead for most of the evening. Three hours later I finally finished 5th place and walked away happy with my miniscule $2.20 win, but feeling elated that I saw four of a kind.

Happy Grinding poker players!