After a 2-month hiatus, we are back with the Liquid Poker Weekly Bulletin! We have selected some of the many hands posted in our HOTW threads during the past two months and are now going to present you what we considered the best hands of the past months! Be aware that this one is a "little bit" too long :D:D
March 24 – 30
** High Stakes Hand of the Week ** (3/24 – 3/30)
DustySwedeDude’s hand is just awesome. He takes advantage of the board and bluffs his opponent out of his way with complete air. Playing a $3/$6 short handed game, DustySwedeDude 3-bet SB’s action and got called. The flop came 9-9-5, and both players decided to check. When the queen of spades fell on the turn, Villain fired a ¾ pot bet. Dusty countered with a raise, which was reraised by Villain. What we saw next was a great shove by Dusty, who won the mind war and bluffed villain out of the hand holding complete air!
DustySwedeDude’s sweet bluff
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Runner – up: The guy who played this hand is one of the most known posters of LP: TalentedTom. He was playing in a $3/$6 short-handed game holding AT when he faced a raise from the button and decided to call. After seeing a 334 rainbow flop, Tom check-raised his opponent, who made the call. A two of spades fell on the turn, and once again Tom let the opposition bet, but this time he just called. The river brought a Queen of clubs, and for the third time tom check and waited for his opponent’s action. Villain fired an overbet and moved all-in. Tom called and took down a sweet pot of over 200bb.
Tom let’s villain put his money on the table and takes it over.
Special mentions
DustySwedeDude makes a great call with AK-high on the river for a 190bb pot
Sebboss wins a 15k<A name="cutnews"></A> pot in a drawy board
** Low-Mid Stakes Hand of the Week **
This winning hand has been played by MiPwnYa when he was in a $2/$4 6-max game. Holding AJ from the BB, MiPwnYa countered a raise with a 3-bet, which was called by the original raiser. When the flop came 8K2, MiPwnYa made a small bet into the pot. Villain raised and MiPwnYa flat called. A five of hearts fell on the turn, making both players check. The river brought a five of diamonds, pairing the board. MiPwnYa made another half-pot bet and saw his opponent put some pressure on him with a all-in push. He made the right read and made a sick call to win a 250bb pot!
MiPwnYa makes a great read to win a sweet pot
Runner-up: We have a tie for the runner-up this week. In the first hand, Python817 was seated in a $2/$4 table with T8o in his hands when he raised from the button and got called. The flop favored him, as it came 855 rainbow. When the action was check to him, Python made a 2/3 pot bet. Villain raised and Python made the call. The turn brought the jack of diamonds. This time, Villain made a ¾ pot bet, Python just called. A king of clubs fell on the river, in what looked to be a disaster for Python’s plans. Villain tried to represent a good hand as he shoved all-in. Python knew better though, as he made a sick call to bust Villain’s bluff and take down a big pot!
Python makes an insane read and wins a great hand with just the 3rd pair
Runner-up #2: The next hand was played by one of our Sunday Million winners. TimDawg. Tim had KJo in his hands when he raised from the CO position. Villain, the button, made the call. The flop came 2-T-5 with two hearts, and TimDawg made the continuation bet for $22 into $30. His opponent flatted. An ace of clubs fell on the turn. Tim once again bet. Then, Villain tried to see what was up with Tim’s action by raising. Wrong choice though, as TimDawg reraised all in to make Villain fold and win a 78bb pot.
TimDawg wins a good pot after a great bluff
March/April 31-6
** High Stakes Hand of the Week **
For the second week in a row, it’s DustySwedeDude who plays the best hand of the week. This time he was playing a $5/$10 6-handed game. He was the SB and his holecards were pocket fives when he opened the action with an 8bb raise, which was called by the villain. Both players checked when they saw a dangerous 9-2-K all hearts board. A six of spades fell on the turn, and despite having only the 4th pair, DustySD bet and called villain’s raise. The board brought another king on the river. This time Dusty just checks and let Villain make his action. The opponent fires a pot-sized bet, but Dusty knows he is ahead and makes an unreal call. This play was worth almost 2 buy-ins!
Dusty soulreads his opponent and wins big money
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Runner-up: The next hand shows Eric Liu, aka Peachy/northface, sitting deepstacked in a $10/$20 PLO heads-up game. Holding 7J99r, Peachy raises from the button and answers a 3-bet with another raise, which is called. The flop came 259, and it couldn’t really be any better than that for Peachy. What we see next is a raise-fest, until both players get all-in, to Peachy’s delight. His opponent held QQKJ, but no Q was dealt to the board in the later streets. Peachy’s set was worth exactly $20,408.50, or 1020bbs!
Peachy wins an 1000bb+ pot with a set
** Low-Mid Stakes Hand of the Week **
The winning low-stakes hand of this week was played by gawdawful. He was playing $0.50//$1 short-handed when he raised UTG with 88. Two other players made the call. A drawy flop was dealt to the board: 65T with two hearts. The smallblind and gawdawful checked before Villain bet $8 into $11.50. SB gave up his hand, while gawdawful called. The turn was a king of spades, and gawdawful did the same thing as in the flop betting round: check-call. The river paired the board with another six, and once again gawdawful cheked. Villain didn’t think about the size of his bet this time, he pushed all-in. Put on a decision, gawdawful made the right choice and called, busting villain’s straight draw.
gawdawful spots his opponent’s bluff
April 07-13
** High Stakes Hand of the Week **
The high stakes HOTW once again belongs to DustySwedeDude. He need sick reading skills in order to win this great hand. After raising pre-flop with pocket nines and getting called, DustySwede saw the T33r flop and fired $30 into $42. His opponent raised and he made the call. The turn didn’t help our Swedish hero, as it brought a queen of hearts. He thought it was better to check, his opponent did the same. The jack of hearts fell on the river, making a flush possible. Dusty bet $138 into $200 and found himself faced against a shove all-in. Dusty didn’t buy it and made the call, an almost 200bb pot!
DustySwedeDude spots his opponent bluff
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** Low/Mid Stakes Hand of the Week
In the winning Low Stakes HOTW, Kaisr takes advantage of his opponent’s bad play and wins a huge pot. Both players were sitting really deepstacked at a $0.10/$0.25 game when Kaisr 4-bets and gets called. After a T-K-7 with 2 spades flop, Kaisr calls his opponent tiny bet. The board bricks a four next, and villain makes another weak bet, while Kaisr makes another call. A queen falls on the river, making the board even more dangerous to our hero. Villain shoves the rest of his stack, but Kaisr is confident he has air and makes the call, busting villain’s jack-high bluff.
Kaisr wins 7bi pot with an ace-high call
Runner-up: Shad was playing a $0.25/$0.50 game when he raised with QT and got called. The 5-K-9 gave him a gutshot straight draw, as well as making a flush draw possible. His opponent had a draw-chasing attitude on both Flop and Turn. When the remaining streets bricked out, villain desperately pushed all-in in an attempt to steal the pot. But Shad spotted his bluff and made the call, taking down an over 200bb pot.
Shad uses his opponent’s play to know he’s ahead
April 14-20
*** Low-Mid Stakes Hand of the Week ***
We’ve had no High Stakes Hands this week, so let’s go straight to the Low and Mid Stakes winners. Dryath was playing a $1/$2 full-ring game when he made a raise with 76s under-the-gun. Almost everyone folded, except for DWmasters, who made the call. The flop came 793 rainbow. Holding the second pair, dryath tried to take the pot down with a 2/3 pot bet, but villain called. Dryath checked and called after seeing the jack of diamonds fall on the turn. The river paired the board, bringing a nine of clubs. Once again dryath checked and let villain bet. Villain answered the check with a shove, which was brilliantly called by dryath, who busted Villain’s weak pair with a sick narrow call!
dryath wins a 100bb pot with an unreal call
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Runner-up: The next hand was played by a very familiar face. Timdawg was sitting in a $2/$4 game when he raised AQo UTG and got called. The drawy 8-K-T with two clubs board, gave Tim a gutshot straight draw. He fired $22 into $30, his opponent made the call. The seven of diamonds fell on the turn, and then the action became big. Time bet and was counter-attacked with a "fixed-limit" raise, which he repelled with an all-in push. Villain, who held AJ, didn’t believe Tim had a made hand, in which he was right, but he didn’t expect Tim to have a better hand than him. The river brought a two of clubs, which made no changes in the outcome of the hand. Tim’s soulreading skills awarded him this big pot, worth of 200bb.
TimDawg makes his opponent pay for not believing his push
April 21-27
** High-stakes hand of the week **
In the high-stakes hand of the week, Rhaegar shows incredible poker instinct when he calls his opponent down with just ace-jack high! In this $5/$10 heads-up game, his opponent shows aggression on every single street, but there's no way Rhaegar is gonna fall for it. He stations all his opponent's bets and wins the pot after his opponent has to show down ten-high.
Rhaegar makes a sick calldown with ace-high!
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Runner-up
In this 5-handed $3/$6 game, TimDawg decides to call the button-raise with   . At the 9-3-3 rainbow flop, he check-calls the continuation bet from his opponent to turn a flushdraw after another diamond comes of. Another check-call follows, and when the river brings an  it seems like TimDawg finds this a great spot to bluff and check-shoves all-in, for his opponent to fold.
TimDawg makes a nice shove with air over a 3rd barrel
Low/Mid Stakes Hand of The Week
The winning Low-/mid-stakes hand of the week was played in a 6-max $2/$4 game with both players in this hand having stacks from 375 to 400 big blinds deep! After 5-betting QJo and getting called by his opponent, Maynard! decides to cbet the AT6-rainbow flop. When he gets called, most people would decide to give up on the hand except for when the king comes on the turn or river. But when his opponent checks behind on the turn, Maynard! senses some weakness and decides to shove the river, with success, winning him a $1356 pot!
Maynard! makes a Q-high shove in this deepstacked hand
Runner-up
TalentedTom's deepstacked shove here is one for value. After calling a 3-bet preflop he check-raises the villain on the 4-2-4 rainbow flop and gets called. The  on the turn doesn't really hit much of his opponent's range and he bets again and again gets called. After another 4 comes on the turn any pair would make a full house, and so does Tom's pocket 8's, but a very vulnerable one. Still, he decides to stick with his hand and shove for value it seems. His opponent clearly puts Tom on air, as he calls with   for just the board and ace high!
TalentedTom shows how to get the maximum out of your pocket 8's
*** Tournament Performances ***
Due to all the accumulated bulletins, we now have a big list of tournament scores. It makes us proud to see all you guys doing this well at the poker tables. Let’s take a look at the best Tournament Performances of the last weeks:
March 24-30
This week brought some really sweet results. The best tournament performance has to go to thewh00sel, who pocketed almost $50,000 by winning a $109 and finishing in 3rd place in another one. All in the same week! Grats!
Others who did great are:
Nutshot – The man accomplished an amazing feat. He played 5 final tables at pretty much the same time, won three of those, and earned a combined $30,500 in those tournaments!
Trey – Trey has won some HOTW awards before, but this week he finished 3rd in a $109 tournament at Full Tilt Poker for a $7,280 paycheck. Ship it!
March/April 31-06
The best performance of this week goes to gruzers. He beat a tough field at a $216 satellite to win a $12,000 -worth WSOP Main Event package. Now he gives himself a chance to be another LPer rocking at Vegas in June.
Acdawg712 finished fourth for $2,800 at the $35,000 guarantee at FTP. Sweet result, man!
April 07-13
This week was just sick. The SCOOP was going on, and we’ve had some LPers stealing the show. Hevad “I’m good at Basketball” Khan won the $55 6-max NLHE and finished in 4th place at the $2,100 NLHE for a combined $181,000 ! Sick!
To make it even better, thewh00sel, aka money machine, took down the SCOOP event number 17, $215 1R1A, and pocketed an insane $128,476 ! When they reached the heads-up, Wh00sel and poker pro Randallin decided to chop the prize, leaving $10,000 for the winner. You know who won, right? Grats wh00sel!
Player999 also did really well in the $15 SCOOP heads-up event. He won 10 heads-up matches before losing in the quarter-finals. That amazing run earned him $2,457 . Congratulations 
April 13-20
Fakeshaver had a really sick run and took down three tournaments at Full Tilt Poker! He earned a combined $7,100 for it!
Drakker finished in 3rd place at the $3,000 guaranteed on PokerStars and cashed $1,386 . Congratulations, mate!
April 21-27
Insane result by Artanis this week! He finished in 5th place at the Sunday Warm-up on PokerStars for a sweet $34,654 ! Sick score!
Thank you for reading. Tomorrow we are going to create topics for the bulletin again and we are counting on your participation. Please make sure you post your best hands . This post was written by Pindarots and Raidern.
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