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Bad beats 2

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Beef03, Aug 26, 2006.

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  1. pallister

    pallister Guest

    I was playing online today and someone kept complaining that the hands were rigged. Too many trips were coming up for his taste. Well, I flopped a nut straight on one hand and he proceeded to start betting. I went right along with him and knocked him down to $50. He was out on the next hand.
     
    pallister, Aug 30, 2006
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  2. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    Bird --

    That's a bad beat.
     
    zeke12, Aug 30, 2006
    #26
  3. urgrad04

    urgrad04 Member

    I was playing in a $50 NL tourney on bodog on Saturday, about half the field was eliminated and I had 2,500 in chips which was in the middle of the field. Anyway with blinds of 50 and 100 I called with pocket Ks and then called a small raise from the big blind.

    The flop came 678 rainbow....big blind checked, I raised for 300 and he took me all-in. Sure if he had a straight with 45, 910 or trips I would have been screwed. But I put him on something like A8. Anyway the idiot turns over 49 of hearts and hit runner-runner for a flush. I realize he had a double belly-buster straight but he put his tournament life on 8 outs. Horrible.

    A worse beat happened to one of my friends who was holding KQ and got his all-in bet called by A4 off-suit. The board read KKQ. He lost when the turn and river were both aces.
     
    urgrad04, Aug 30, 2006
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  4. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    Of course, if he was holding 8-7 S, you put your tournament life on the line for two outs.

    Just sayin...
     
    zeke12, Aug 30, 2006
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  5. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    The best bad beat story EVER was something I read in a poker mag...sorry no link but I'll try to remember...

    Cash game at a casino has a bad-beat jackpot around $80K or something ridiculous (again I don't remember specifics, but follow along). Rich old lady and young jackass are jawing each other all night, escalating into the kind of stuff espn would kill to get on camera. Finally they lock horns on a huge hand, raising and reraising and just going bananas after a flop of A-A-K.

    They end up showing down the hand, the punk kid had pocket kings for kings full of aces, the old lady had A-K for aces full of kings. A bad-beat hand which would have paid the kid the lion's share of that huge jackpot. Except the woman fires her hand into the muck after showing it.

    "Wh-wh-WHY did you do that?" the kid stammers, realizing a mucked hand is dead and he wasn't going to get paid his thousands. "I'd rather dump it than see you get the money," says the lady, even sacrificing her smaller share of the bad beat (remember, she's apparently rich).

    Hell, even if that story is fiction, it tops 'em all.
     
    playthrough, Aug 30, 2006
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  6. doubledown68

    doubledown68 Active Member

    I've heard the story too, but I think they both had quads, with the kid having four kings.

    And, I'd have to be restrained from killing the lady. Seriously. No joke. Not kidding. That might throw me into a homicidal rage.
     
    doubledown68, Aug 30, 2006
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  7. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    OK. I knew I'd butcher the specifics, but I remember that punk kid certainly lost his punk-ness when that lady mucked.
     
    playthrough, Aug 30, 2006
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  8. Joe_Thousandaire

    Joe_Thousandaire Member

    I was playing $30-60 Omaha hi-lo today and Greg Raymer sat down at the table for half an hour. Some would consider that a bad beat, but I took him for about $300. I get my share of bad beats, but try to immediately forget them.
     
    Joe_Thousandaire, Aug 31, 2006
    #32
  9. Jones

    Jones Active Member

    I just won a sweet tourney tonight (offered to chop when it was down to two of us, guy said no, and I took all of his chips in two hands, which made it sweeter). Also, earlier in the evening, I landed my first straight flush (and I play a lot of goddamn poker).

    Holding J-9 spades in the big blind.

    Flop Ac-10s-8s. Villain throws in a little, I push, villain calls with A-K, which he had slow played (oops).

    Red ace on the turn (uh-oh).

    Queen of spades on the river. Woooooooooooooooo!
     
    Jones, Aug 31, 2006
    #33
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