Do you have a favorite poker hand?

I was planning to write about why you shouldn’t play your favorite hand all the time.

I know some guys that have favorites and they hate laying down their favorite.

For some people it is the 72. They love playing the hammer. For others it may be the 910. Who knows why people like their favorite hands. Perhaps they won a big hand against the odds.

I’d been trying not to have a favorite hand. However my last two straight flushes were in diamonds. One was
A5 and the other was
79 . I know at a table of 10 players neither one of those hands has great odds but at the time it made sense for me to play those hands. In both cases I made a straight flush.

I started to have a tendancy to play ANY two diamonds, even if it put me in a bad position. I was going to write about how this was costing me a lot of money.

Then I hit my 3rd straight flush ALSO in diamonds! Today I was dealt a
10j and flopped the straight flush with
8 9 7 . (oh, and my opponent bet into me!)

Once again I’m tempted to play any 2 diamonds I get! After all it seems to be my lucky suit!

What do you think? Am I crazy? Is there such a thing as a lucky suit? Or should I stick with my normal strategy.

- Fittsy

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