HackyMcHack
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Bar poker ... down to four players. Top three get paid. I'm tied for short stack with another player with roughly eight big blinds. Second place has a little more. First place, an old man hunched over his chips, had most of the chips, far and away, after catching all sorts of cards all night.
I'm in the big blind. Everyone calls. Flop comes three diamonds. I'm holding K-9, both diamonds, for a flush. Figuring that someone wasn't going to have A-something suited diamonds to beat me at that point since nobody opened earlier, I push all in.
The other short stack folds. So does second place. But old man ... of all people ... calls. As I figured, he didn't have suited diamonds. But he did have the ace of diamonds ... a winner if another diamond hit the board.
The turn bricked. The river? Sure enough, the 2 of diamonds. He catches his backdoor flush, and I'm sent to the rail as bubble boy.
Sure, it was a good call on his part. I would have called if the roles were reversed. But that was a bad, bad bubble....
On that note, there has to be some better bad beat stories out there.....
I'm in the big blind. Everyone calls. Flop comes three diamonds. I'm holding K-9, both diamonds, for a flush. Figuring that someone wasn't going to have A-something suited diamonds to beat me at that point since nobody opened earlier, I push all in.
The other short stack folds. So does second place. But old man ... of all people ... calls. As I figured, he didn't have suited diamonds. But he did have the ace of diamonds ... a winner if another diamond hit the board.
The turn bricked. The river? Sure enough, the 2 of diamonds. He catches his backdoor flush, and I'm sent to the rail as bubble boy.
Sure, it was a good call on his part. I would have called if the roles were reversed. But that was a bad, bad bubble....
On that note, there has to be some better bad beat stories out there.....