NFT: Bad Poker beats...

I've never had something that bad. You got me beat

of beats. Can't classify all as bad, though.

Playing in the Borgata Spring Open last year and we're down to the final 14 in their $360 buy-in event.

I'm mid stack and look down at 4-5 clubs on the button. Action folds to me so I raise 2.5x. Get called by the big Blind who has me covered.

Flop comes 6-7-8 clubs. I bet, get raised, and I push all in. He calls I show the straight flush. He shows J-K clubs. Sure enough, the board runs out 9-10 clubs!

Never saw a straight flush on a board before or since.

A few years ago. Wasn’t a huge tournament but had about 180 people with a $40 buy-in.

Made it to the final table and was one of four left. Won’t go into all the details, but I ended up losing with 4 Jack’s to 4 Queens.

Looking back, I wouldn’t of played it any differently than I did, but I would have been one of two people left.

Easily the baddest beat I’ve ever had.

I'm not playing for the thrill of fucking victory here. I owe rent, alimony, child support - I play for money. My kids EAT. I got stones enough not to chase cards, actions of fucking pipe dreams of winning the World Series of Poker on ESPN. You want me to call some people, try and buy you some time, I will. Place to stay or the truck. No problem. But about the money I gotta do this...

the Pokerstars Sunday Million tourney back during the poker boom. First place was $250,000ish and I was guaranteed something like $7K just for getting down to the last 14.

I'm in the SB with small/middle size stack and there's a terrible big stack player in the cutoff who is continually open raise and folding. I also havnt seen the BB (a middle size stack who has me slightly covered) play a hand yet in 3 orbits. He makes his usual raise when it's folded to him on the cutoff, I shove allin in the cutoff with 79s and BB insta calls and cutoff insta folds. BB of course has fucking AA. Flop comes 779, turn 9, river A.

Worst 30 seconds experience I've ever had playing poker.

In comment 13882018 Metnut said:

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the Pokerstars Sunday Million tourney back during the poker boom. First place was $250,000ish and I was guaranteed something like $7K just for getting down to the last 14. I'm in the SB with small/middle size stack and there's a terrible big stack player in the cutoff who is continually open raise and folding. I also havnt seen the BB (a middle size stack who has me slightly covered) play a hand yet in 3 orbits. He makes his usual raise when it's folded to him on the cutoff, I shove allin in the cutoff with 79s and BB insta calls and cutoff insta folds. BB of course has fucking AA. Flop comes 779, turn 9, river A. Worst 30 seconds experience I've ever had playing poker.

Yea, bad writing on my part here. It was folded to the cutoff (the guy who kept raising/folding), and he did his normal raise. I shoved all-in from the SB, not the cutoff.

Stories like that are why I refuse to play 1/2 anymore when I go to Foxwoods. People just looking to GAMBOOL.

2/5 or bust for me.

In comment 13881992 FatMan in Charlotte said:

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of beats. Can't classify all as bad, though. Playing in the Borgata Spring Open last year and we're down to the final 14 in their $360 buy-in event. I'm mid stack and look down at 4-5 clubs on the button. Action folds to me so I raise 2.5x. Get called by the big Blind who has me covered. Flop comes 6-7-8 clubs. I bet, get raised, and I push all in. He calls I show the straight flush. He shows J-K clubs. Sure enough, the board runs out 9-10 clubs! Never saw a straight flush on a board before or since.

I have yet to see a str8 flush, never mind 2 on the same table... That blows,,,,

In comment 13882064 Bockman said:

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Stories like that are why I refuse to play 1/2 anymore when I go to Foxwoods. People just looking to GAMBOOL. 2/5 or bust for me.

This!

I will never play 1/2. If a player doesn't raise you have 6-8 players seeing the flop. BINGO! Plus I have no self control at 1/2. Never got dealt a hand I wouldn't play for $2.

Had pocket Js, went all in as I was getting short-stacked and needed to make a move. Got two callers, one was a K-Q off. Hit a J on the flop, and 2 clubs comes out. Turn and river, two more clubs comes out. Lady with the K-Q had the K of clubs.

That was 3 weeks ago. Very next week, I have pocket 10s. Flop comes out 10-Q-Q. I'm heads up in late position and guy checks to me. I go all in, he calls, turns over a JJ. Jack hits on the river.

It's poker and stuff like that just drives you crazy.

Played the other night and just couldn't catch cards and was getting blinded. I go all in with A-Q suited. Fucking dude calls me with 7-2. Hits a deuce and it holds up. Earlier had 8-7 off, I throw it away, flop comes out 8-7-7. You remember those, too. That same guy with the 7-2 had pocket K's and bet all the way and didn't hit the K. I would've cleaned up on him. Poker sucks but I can't stop playing.

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win story. I was playing a backroom cash game. There is this dude playing who thinks everyone else is beneath him and he gets pocket aces (and tells everyone about it.) I stay in the hand just to be a dick and draw a flush on the turn. I play it like I don't know what I'm doing and take him for his entire stack.

To a bad beat.
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In comment 13882366 Stan in LA said:

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Haha, Hellmuth is such a dick. If you want a good laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx32glxh4-M

at like 3,000 5/10 blinds I raised to 100 pre flop with KK. One call. I get my set on the flop K, 9, 4. He bets 100. I re-raise to 500. All in from him. I call of course. 9,6 has suited. He was 3 to a flush. Gets it. “I thought you were bluffing” he says.

In comment 13882026 Metnut said:

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In comment 13882018 Metnut said: Quote: the Pokerstars Sunday Million tourney back during the poker boom. First place was $250,000ish and I was guaranteed something like $7K just for getting down to the last 14. I'm in the SB with small/middle size stack and there's a terrible big stack player in the cutoff who is continually open raise and folding. I also havnt seen the BB (a middle size stack who has me slightly covered) play a hand yet in 3 orbits. He makes his usual raise when it's folded to him on the cutoff, I shove allin in the cutoff with 79s and BB insta calls and cutoff insta folds. BB of course has fucking AA. Flop comes 779, turn 9, river A. Worst 30 seconds experience I've ever had playing poker. Yea, bad writing on my part here. It was folded to the cutoff (the guy who kept raising/folding), and he did his normal raise. I shoved all-in from the SB, not the cutoff.

More bad luck that the dude behind you woke up with AA than bad beat.

don't splash the pot.

got paid out for a bad-beat jackpot?

I was in a room in Florida one time that had the bad beat hit. Everyone who wasn't at the table but in a live hand at the time got $100. That was pretty cool.

Losing out on a runner runner is just some bad luck. When I play I try to end the hand as quickly as possible if nobody is betting. Never leave your fate to the cards, cause thats how you get screwed.