Poker hands, what are the hardest ones to play for you?

Question

What are the hardest hands or what are the hardest situations for you guys to play? I myself always oddly enough find that when i flop the nuts it is very hard to play, Not that I'm unhappy about flopping a great hand, but it is so hard to get any real action on a hand like that. How about you guys?

Answer 1

flopping the nuts means you have to play the hand as if you had nothing.  just calling slight over raises.  

Personally, I hate pocket queens I seem to lose more money on the ladies than any other hand because so oftensome jackass will call no matter the raise with a Ace and low kicker and somehow hit the ace.  

Answer 2

the hardest hand for me to bet on,is floping 2pair,i have had J 10 alot and have it flop J 10  and it almost allways throws a  9 or a 8 or a Q with the flop..now they have a str draw most of the time and always seem to hit it,,,, i hate floping 2pair uggggg  

Answer 3

Playing middle pocket pairs OOP, especially heads up, especially when 1-2 overcards are on the flop.

Top pair weak kicker I also find difficult (like when you get a free look at the board w/ Q5 and Q86 flop).

Answer 4

Hmmm, I reckon the hardest hand to play is flopping the sucker straight, just hard to bet, cause if I flop it, there generally is allot of limping (I cant see a situation where I would have it without that being the case).  It becomes easier to play if the board 3 or 4 flushes, I can lay it down.  Same with flopping mid set, when the board shows straight or flush.

Answer 5

actually, flopping the stone cold nuts is one of the toughest hands to get action on, just because when you flop a hand like that it's tough for someone else to have a hand most times...say you have 8-8 and the flop comes down 8-5-5, it's hard for someone to have something that they can give you action with, so definitely one of the tougher situations is having the nuts and playing it in a way where you get max value but you protect your hand from being outdrawn, if necessary

one hand that i find very difficult to play in full table situations in no-limit is A-Q, especially when facing an early position raise...at a shorthanded table, A-Q is a huge hand, but at a full table it's very beatable and when someone opens the pot from first position and you don't have a lot of info on this player, it becomes a really tricky spot...in these situations i like to just call and take a flop if i have the chips to do so, but even then you can get yourself in some very sticky situations post-flop

Answer 6

On the sweet side, the hardest GREAT hand for me is flopped quads.  The problem is that everyone figures you for the set, and FEARS the boat, so unless you get lucky and they pick up a boat of their own by the river, you're just not going to get any action on this hand.

It's VERY hard to make real money with this hand, and very frustrating to get that one-in-a-thousand flop, and never get paid.

As far as-tough-to-play "normal" hands, I get the least love from upper-mid pairs in early position.  A JJ or 10-10 under the gun looks great, but the flop almost always has at least one overcard, and you're out of position.  With 99 or 88 you can play it like a baby pair, just limp-and-run.  But 10-10 or JJ seems too good to play that way, but not good enough to stake a tourney or a large chip stack on.

That's probably my least favorite scenario.