pokerroom - Pocket Fours:
Recently, I have to say that pocket fours are one of the few hands in live play that have been very kind to me.
Although I am not a superstitious player and won’t attach any extra importance to the hand when I am dealt it, I have made a full house both times when I was last dealt it.
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The first time, I slow played it and managed to win about 3,000 in chips, and the second time, I made a very unusual play and could have perhaps tripled up if I had played it right.
Having flopped a set, and with two other players in the pot, I decided to push all in on the flop. I guess my reasoning was that I had been very aggressive in previous hands and I knew my table image was loose. Both players had top pair with sevens, but with a weak kicker, and both folded. Flicking through the next two cards I saw that both would have hit three sevens on the turn, and I would have made a full house. Lesson learned. I almost always play this type of situation slow, and I should have done then too, but I felt both players could have a piece of the flop, as I limped into the pot preflop in late position. Personally, I always try not to become predictable by playing the same type of hands the same way, and this time it truly cost me.
Perhaps this a perfect example of how you should often slow play big hands, but doing so every time can often bite back. Despite this, I cannot say I definately played the hand terribly, beacuse the logic behind the move was ok, but giving my opponents the chance to improve their hand on the turn would have been the better option.
But then hindsight as they say, knows everything.