The maybe pair

One of the trickiest poker hands to play is what I call the maybe pair. That's the scenario where you're dealt a pocket pair and there's no pair in the flop, but at least one of the cards in the flop is an overcard to your pair. You can't simply assume that you're losing, but you also can't assume you're winning. You should proceed with caution, and let the betting patterns of your opponents inform your decisions. In the most memorable hand of last night's session, I won a decent-sized pot with a maybe pair. I was dealt pocket queens, and there was a king and two low cards in the flop. One opponent kept betting two times the big blind, and I kept calling. That was actually a pretty polarizing bet; in other words, the size of bet someone with a king in their hand might make, and also the size of bet someone without a king in their hand might make :-) I went with the odds, which favored that the opponent was of the latter variety. Sad to say, that hand was the highlight of my night.

style flavor buy_in entry players entries paid place winnings

MTT   NLHE   174000 26000       6      79   21     -        0

delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $20,087,668
2020 balance: $12,865,343
balance: $74,673,353