You think you've had a bad beat?

[Absolution]

I just witnessed this real money game on UB (names have been changed):

Hand at Blundeston (No Limit Hold'em)
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Started at 01/Mar/04 22:15:24

Ouch is at seat 2 with $6713.
wealthy is at seat 4 with $5347.

Pre-flop:

Ouch raises to $175. wealthy calls.

Flop (board: Tc 6s 8s):

Ouch bets $425. wealthy calls.

Turn (board: Tc 6s 8s Qs):

Ouch checks. wealthy bets $1275.
Ouch calls.

River (board: Tc 6s 8s Qs Ts):

Ouch bets $3825. wealthy goes all-in for
$3472. Ouch is returned $353 (uncalled).



Showdown:

Ouch shows Td Ks.
Ouch has Ks 6s 8s Qs Ts: flush, king high.
wealthy shows Th Qd.
wealthy has Th Qd Tc Qs Ts: full house, tens full of queens.


Hand Summary:

$3 is raked from a pot of $10769.
wealthy wins $10766 with full house, tens full of queens.
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I can't imagine throwing around that much money.

[ballbp]

Ouch is a damn good way of describing that guy. If he's got any pets, they just got out of the room!

[Replic]

Why did wealthy bet so much on a pair of 10s on the flop!?

[racquet000]

Top pair? Seems like a good move to me. and ouch bet wealthy called.

[iloveholdem]

You should see Layne, Howard, and '' Nick Stokes'' all play together. I've watched Layne one night loose 60,000 ( could of been more ) mostly to ''Nick Stokes'' and Howard. It was crazy he kept rebuying in $5000 and go all-in every few times.

[Absolution]

I think ouch played it well up until the turn. He had top pair. Maybe if he was more aggressive after the flop he could have got the guy to fold and could have just taken small pot. I'm not sure if I'd try to milk a pair of tens, especially with two spades on the board.

I think wealthy made ouch's decision for him on the turn. That bet was huge and ouch should have folded. He only had a middle pair now and I would have put wealth on a flush or more likely two pair, one of them being queens. The flop was nice, but it seemed obvious that the turn burned him. I would have then put my outs on any spade (9), any king (3), and incorrectly any 10 (2). That gives you 14 outs with only 1 card to draw for about a 1 in 4 chance of making it (actually being much less since the 10 doesn't help). Maybe he had reason to think wealthy was trying to buy the pot though - I only watched the game for about 20 minutes. Either way, he was done on the river. He made his flush and there was no way to get away from it. Anyway, from that perspective wealthy played a good hand at the turn and was probably scared when ouch called. He got the dream card on the river though to save him. It's what you live for in this game. You have the nuts and your opponent has a very strong 2nd place hand. Any other spade would have killed him and at least cost him that 1275 bet on the turn.

[DomTrix]

This is probably old to a lot of you but the worst bad beat I hear about is the one described in Super System which I believe to be true. It was in a stupidly high stakes game (live), can't remember the figures unfortunately, 10's of thousands anyway.

playerA: AA
playerB: Kc Qc

flop Ah Ac 5c

playerB makes a bet for his flush draw. Player A cooly slow plays.

turn: Ah Ac 5c Jc

playerB hits his flush and bets, playerA slow calls again.

river: Ah Ac 5c Jc 10c

Huge betting. A's quad aces beat by Royal Flush.

No badbeat bonus either!

(not sure it was the 5c on the flop, or if the 10 came after the J, but it maks little difference)

[JohnnyCache]

Gack. I got a headache just reading that.

[Absolution]

That's the worst. I hate hands you can't get away from. They just slow play you and you do yourself in. It's the worst.

[DomTrix]

Just remembered another one, happenend to a friend in a tourney I played.

He had something like Ah 2h, 7 way pot.

Flop is 3h 4h 5h - wohooo, he thinks, and of course slows it.

Turn is 7h - gets a load of callers for some reason.

River is 6h! - the pot gets split something like five ways (shame no on had the 8)

[wEbMaStEr]

i actually won the worst beat i ever saw, was in a tournament and i had Qh Jh
by the turn 8h 9h and 10h had hit the board but the guy raised all in :D
i couldn't believe my luck
turns out he did so with 6h 7h
so unluckily (for him) he had the lower straight flush 8)

[wEbMaStEr]

let me amend this,
at least the guy above knew there was a chance his low end natural was beaten..... this just happened to me on pokerstars and definately gets filed under my worst beat ever!

blinds were 50/100
I am on the button with 9 9
4 players call
flop comes K 4 K
1st 3 players check it down and i having my 2 pair raise 300
sb calls the 300 the other 2 fold
I'm thinking ok she may have made a set
turn shows a 9 (i'm extatic)
sb raises 500 (now i know she has the set)
i re-raise all in (about 2200 showing 999KK)
she immediately calls the all in and shows KKKXX
i'm over the moon and counting my chips
then the river comes.......















K













worst beat ever (personally)
I thought i played this great, i know that raising preflop may have removed her from the hand totally, but with 99 a lot can happen and 2 others had already called so i'm guessing overcards are abounding, so i wanted to see a flop.
my 300 raise on flop was a tickle, hoping to find if there was indeed a set, and this pushed 2 players out the door, if anything other than a 9 had hit on turn and she raised i woulda walked away.
But to make a FH only to see it beat on river with 4 of a kind?
i had also considered the possibility that she may have made a FH on flop or indeed river with K's over and would have taken this and put it down to just bad luck
but to be all in and in the lead after turn with a FH and see it beaten!!
mannnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[Tralfaz]

Hey All:

I know how you feel Web. When I'm on a losing streak I seem to get the worst beats. The following are two of the worst from the last two days.

First, I was in a $3 rebuy tourney on PS (for a buyin to the $215 NL) About 10-15 people had to be knocked out until we all would have won (I think top 29 paid out). The blinds were around 400/800 I was in the BB and had around 30k. I have AK suited and there are two callers and the the SB raises - I go all in and. . . there are 3 caller with, get this, AQ offsuit!!! Thats right all 3 of them had AQ offsuit. What are the odds? I was delieriously happy. but knew I could still lose but I figured they would have to hit the str8 or one of them a flush. I mean what are the odds that the last Queen in the deck will hit. . . of course on the turn Queen! They all got to split my money - Argggggg

Second, Im in a $50 SNG on PS there were 5 people left and the blinds were 50/100. I had around 1000 TC (I think I was the short stack.) I just called and the BB rased to $200 - I went all in and he called with KQ offsuit. I figured I was in pretty good shape. The flop was 10 K 7. The turn was a 9. I was thinking aw crap here comes the Jack. And the next card was a jack giving him the str8.

Thats poker and I realize that anytime you put your money out there preflop its a gamble but it still hurts when you lose like that.