Why is everyone obsessed with 97s?

breadmonkey

Please enlighten me, I just don't get it.

GBX

as opposed to 99's.. ?

RoundTower

* January 8 - Russia seeks to widen its ban on the importation of Irish beef due to BSE.
* February 27 - The law providing for divorce comes into effect today.
* March 6 - Michael Lowry resigns as a member of the Fine Gael Party.
* March 7 - President Mary Robinson meets Pope John Paul II in the Vatican.
* March 17 - The new national independent radio station, Radio Ireland, goes on the air.
* April 8 - Author Frank McCourt is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes.
* June 12 - President Mary Robinson is appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
* June 16 - National University of Ireland, Maynooth comes into existence with the commencement of the Universities Act, 1997.
* July 3 - An Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, meets Prime Minister Tony Blair for the first time.
* July 6 - There is violence in nationalist areas after an Orange Order march is forced down the Garvaghy Road by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Portadown.
* July 9 - Counsel for Charles Haughey admits that the former-Taoiseach accepted £1.3 million from businessman Ben Dunne.
* July 20 - The IRA institutes a second ceasefire.
* September 12 - Mary Robinson resigns as President of Ireland to take up a United Nations post.
* October 7 - Substantial all-party talks begin in Northern Ireland.
* November 7 - Dick Spring confirms that he is resigning as leader of the Labour Party.
* November 11 - Mary McAleese is inaugurated as the eighth President of Ireland.
* November 13 - Ruairí Quinn wins the leadership of the Labour Party.
* December 27 - The Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright is shot dead in the Maze prison by members of the INLA.

You see - 97 was an interesting year.

De Deraco

it sneaky and quick no one sees it coming, you sure didnt.

hotspur

Cause it's almost 8Ts obviously!

pmk19

because it's soooted

Rnger

97c was my favourite hand for a good long while because it never loses. Then it lost.

Cant beat J7s now

BigDragon

Its a mystical hand amongst top online pros first heralded by the best mtt player on PS johnnybax. He plays it alot and seems to do well and then shows and its a bit of a giggle a bit like Imposter and Dr Pauly and their love of 72o but the most impressive one I have seen is JuanPablo and his sexual perversion tendencies when he looks at 85o in the hole.

Glowingmind

85 - little known fact: this is the best hand in poker.

shroomfox

I'm scribbling notes furiously here.

bohsman

BigDragon wrote:

JuanPablo and his sexual perversion tendencies when he looks at 85o in the hole.

Youre way of, the only hand JP plays is 92

ollyk1

bohsman wrote:

Youre way of, the only hand JP plays is 92

Rock.

BigDragon

bohsman wrote:

Youre way of, the only hand JP plays is 92

No, he misplays 92 but plays 85o like the genius he is.

Iago

everybody knows that 85soooteeed is the only hand to play...of course it helps when you're up against a donkey

about 10 hands after this I took what was left of his stack with AA filling a house on the turn against his straight!!

Double Indemnity 4914674-119488 Holdem No Limit $0.50/$1
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : Hand Start.
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : Seat 1 : rlubbinge has $100
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : Seat 2 : SteGenius has $144.75
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : Seat 3 : hellga has $147.50
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : Seat 4 : dontjump has $96.25
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : Seat 5 : Prough has $119.50
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : Seat 6 : golly has $152
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : Seat 7 : gutshotvic has $167.25
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : Seat 8 : rundtm has $55
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : Seat 9 : newsholme has $198.50
[Mar 22 23:20:06] : rundtm is the dealer.
[Mar 22 23:20:08] : newsholme posted small blind.
[Mar 22 23:20:17] : rlubbinge has 10 seconds to respond.
[Mar 22 23:20:27] : rlubbinge refused to post big blind.
[Mar 22 23:20:30] : SteGenius posted big blind.
[Mar 22 23:20:30] : Game [119488] started with 7 players.
[Mar 22 23:20:30] : Dealing Hole Cards.
[Mar 22 23:20:30] : Seat 6 : golly has 5s 8s
[Mar 22 23:20:32] : dontjump folded.
[Mar 22 23:20:43] : Prough folded.
[Mar 22 23:20:48] : golly called $1
[Mar 22 23:20:48] : gutshotvic folded.
[Mar 22 23:20:50] : rundtm folded.
[Mar 22 23:20:54] : newsholme called $0.50
[Mar 22 23:21:04] : SteGenius checked.
[Mar 22 23:21:05] : Dealing flop.
[Mar 22 23:21:05] : Board cards [Ts Qh 4s]
[Mar 22 23:21:13] : newsholme bet $10
[Mar 22 23:21:20] : SteGenius folded.
[Mar 22 23:21:23] : golly called $10
[Mar 22 23:21:23] : Dealing turn.
[Mar 22 23:21:23] : Board cards [Ts Qh 4s 5h]
[Mar 22 23:21:32] : newsholme bet $10
[Mar 22 23:21:34] : golly called $10
[Mar 22 23:21:35] : Dealing river.
[Mar 22 23:21:35] : Board cards [Ts Qh 4s 5h As]
[Mar 22 23:21:47] : newsholme bet $50
[Mar 22 23:21:50] : golly called $50
[Mar 22 23:21:51] : Showdown!
[Mar 22 23:21:51] : Seat 6 : golly has 5s 8s
[Mar 22 23:21:52] : Seat 9 : newsholme has 2s 6d
[Mar 22 23:21:52] : newsholme has High Card : Ace
[Mar 22 23:21:52] : Seat 6 : golly has 5s 8s
[Mar 22 23:21:52] : golly has Flush AT854
[Mar 22 23:21:52] : golly wins $140 with Flush AT854
[Mar 22 23:22:00] : Hand is over.

Juan Pablo

bohsman wrote:

Youre way of, the only hand JP plays is 92

And only if suited, in clubs

Iago wrote:

85soooteeed

Nice, Romario would be proud!

aidankk

one of my fav hands, but just flushed 2 hands in a row with 7-9 clubs, what are the odds of that lloooollll..

Next hand i got a nut club flush with aj clubs.. only problem i was playing limit DOH

iBoT

when i first this tread i tho only mad people played with 97 but.... i was playing party 2/4 nl holdem. 97 offsuit called for $4 preflop, flop came 977 rainbow
i started laughing my head off! then it was raised b4 me ,i started laughing even more .
i took down a pot over 1k , from a starting buyin of $200

edit ill c if i can find the hand history l8r

Ardent

iBoT wrote:

when i first this tread i tho only mad people played with 97 but.... i was playing party 2/4 nl holdem. 97 offsuit called for $4 preflop, flop came 977 rainbow
i started laughing my head off! then it was raised b4 me ,i started laughing even more .
i took down a pot over 1k , from a starting buyin of $200

edit ill c if i can find the hand history l8r

Yeah, that'd be good, I'd like to see how you extracted so much money from the donkies. I flopped a house myself last night and couldn't get paid.

iBoT

Ardent wrote:

Yeah, that'd be good, I'd like to see how you extracted so much money from the donkies. I flopped a house myself last night and couldn't get paid.

he pushed !, with ace7 i didnt hav 2 do anything:D