Learn Texas Holdem

I was playing my usual stakes NL game today when this hand came up. For my bankroll the stakes are pretty high and if I do lose a big hand I sometimes have trouble dealing with the variance.

Anyways, I'm dealt two queens in the big blind. The player under the gun makes it 5 times the big blind and the cutoff guy and the button call. I thought of raising but the original opener hadn't played a hand for 15 minutes (this is an online game) and he seemed tight overall so I came to the conclusion that I might actually need a set. So I cold call the raise with pocket queens.

The flop comes Q46 rainbow. Perfect! I check because I'm sure someone will stab at the pot, which is already pretty sizeable. The preflop raiser bets about 1xpot, the button calls and I reraise half my stack. The guy moves all in and the button gets out of our way. At this point I know precisely what he is holding. Pocket aces. At those stakes people always play them the same way. I call the all in quickly. The turn comes the 9 of hearts. My trip queens are still the nuts! I'm very excited, since the pot is at 3,5x table max buy in. The river comes the A of clubs and the moment I see the card I know I'm beat and just as thought, he turns over two aces for trip aces and I muck my no-longer-good set of queens.

Now you think this is the good old 2-outer, but the button player quickly says in the chat that he had AQ, and he copypastes from the hand history the line where it says which cards he's dealt (he obviously could've written that himself but I doubt it). I just couldn't believe this! Case ace on the river cracks my nut set!

I truly hope beats like this, especially in such big pots only occur once in a lifetime.

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