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What's your all-time worst bad beat?

posted 15 years ago by Palpatine77
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I thought it'd be fun to start a topic to discuss the worst bad beat you've ever had in poker. As for me, I'm not bringing this up to cry and moan, like "how could this happen to me", or anything like that, as my worst bad beat happened over a year ago and I'm long over it by now, and at this point I just reflect on it with some amusement, and thought I'd post it. I had entered a 9 seat Sit N Go, and had made it to heads-up with pretty much identical chip stacks. I'm dealt pocket Queens, and I wind up getting all in pre-flop to my opponent's A-3 offsuit. No complaints with either play, heads up both hands are solid starting hands, and I'm well ahead so far. Here's what looks like pretty much the dream flop: Q K K. Awesome! I pair up my Q, and there's two Kings on the flop for an automatic full house. About the best kinda flop I could hope for, I think. Now, of course he winds up beating me in this hand, and before revealing how, just for fun I'll say that (technically) he beat me without ever improving his hand......well, he did improve his hand of course, but not like you'd at first think.......

Ok, ready to guess what the turn and river are? I'll give ya a second to think about it.......

Again, I had Q Q. The flop, again, was Q K K. The turn, another K. I still have the best hand, with Kings full of Queens. The river..... K. Yep, the board is now Q K K K K, reducing me to have to play the board of quad Kings with a Q kicker, and my opponent made a hand of quad Kings with an Ace kicker(what I meant earlier about him never improving his hand was that he was just playing Ace high the whole time to the end). I just remember sitting there at the time in front of my computer screen feeling like I got sucker punched by Mike Tyson or something. While there's worse possible losing hands, that's the worst beat I've ever taken. And again, in that moment I was pissed that I lost the game like that, but now I just look back at it with amusement. Anyhow, anybody else got any good or fun bad beat stories to tell?

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[–] dom_montiglio 15 years ago

Worst bad beat lately ... though I had a beat eerily similar to the OP's years ago ... Long story short:
- $1-2 NL at the casino ... on the button. Cutoff raises to $7 ... I wake up to KK ... re-raise to $25. BB comes along. Cutoff comes along.
- Flop comes out K-2-7 rainbow.
- BB checks
- Cutoff bets $40
- I tank a little and call
- BB moves in for another $130 or so(!)
- Cutoff hesitates about 20 seconds, and moves in, too ... covers us both by nearly $100
- I snap call
- BB holds AA ... Cutoff holds KQ (can't believe he sticks around preflop)
- Turn comes blank
- River ace ... the ONE-outer to snatch a roughly $550 pot from my grasp

"How's life? Each day is better than the next."

[–] JHBLADER86 15 years ago

Seven handed cash game. I dont remember the stakes. Everyone folds, and I'm SB, look down at 22, I call, the BB checks. Flop comes 225. I'm freaking out on the inside but I check. BB bets, I ponder for a minute, and then raise. BB calls, and the Turn is a 5. I bet, BB raises, I go all in, he insta-calls, I proudly turnover my Quad Deuces while standing up to take the pot. He looks up at me, smiles, and turns over 55 for Quad Fives. I yelled out the biggest WTF ever.

[–] pops87 15 years ago

O... I love to read bad beats storys. With quads after having full house to lose to ACE - Common bad beat.

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[–] Palpatine77 15 years ago

Well, I'm glad someone enjoyed my bad beat story! lol

[–] loverboyus 15 years ago

mine was just yesterday. I got pocket aces on the button. everyone limps in so I raise to ten dollars. this is a junky casino and they're biggest game is 2 2. SO ten is the average bet. This guy out of position who has been bullying the table all day long reraises me to 20. This guy I have seen before and I know he just re raises all the time. So I kick it to $60. then he goes all in preflop. I have aces I have to call. He proudly shows his 7 duece off suit. The flop is 7 7 2. he flops a full house with 7 2. I couldnt believe it. and then you say its ok he will lose eventually. But I see him consistantly winning money. walking home a winner. This man must have signed a deal with the devil.

[–] SiPayn 15 years ago

Worst bad beat? I am holding pocket 10s, playing in a casino at the £5/£10 table. I am sitting on the button, everyone folds round to me, so I put in a raise to £40. Small blind calls, big blind folds.

Small blind has been playing loose for the past 4 hours, so I am thinking he can have anyhing, but I put him on either a middle pair or Ace rag. Flop comes down 10 8 5 rainbow. Small blind bets just under half the pot £40, and I raise thinking I have top set, and the read I put on him earlier for middle pair is looking good. So I raise to £150 at this point, and he calls after a long think. Turn is 3, and we have one of each suit on the table, so no flush draw anywhere.

He checks, I bet £300, and he insta-calls. River comes another 3. Pot is just under £1,000 at this point. So I value bet my top set, £650, hoping for a call. Guy calls again, and turns over pocket 3's. I can't understand why he called me after the flop with pocket 3's when I had been playing tight, and had position on him. Then he hits runner-runner 3's to beat me, the only two cards he could have hit on the turn and river to win.

Not the happiest of bunnies........

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[–] holyabdul 15 years ago

I flopped a ten high FH. The guy calls me down with a gutshot straight draw. Lo and behind he hits running Js to get a J high flush.

Another time threeway all in preflop shove. I had AA, the other two both had 66. I lost, to a straight.

[–] randy3140 15 years ago

Not a bad beat story but I did flop a SF (six-high in hearts) about a month ago. The odds of that happening is about sixty-five thousand to one. Saw my first RF two months ago. Play enough cards and eventually you see everything.

[–] dom_montiglio 15 years ago

I saw my first royal flush a couple of weeks ago ... third hand of a tournament, guy turns it holding ace-king, scooped a 200-chip pot when he got no river action. Terrible.

"How's life? Each day is better than the next."

[–] pops87 15 years ago

Omaha Hi/Lo
I got A35T. 4-way action. Flop 33K rainbow. I bet 1/4pot. 2 people calls. Turn J, 4th siut. I bet 3x last bet. 1 Guy calls. No straights yet, no flushes and no low hands possible. River ACE. I bet pot. Guy calls and shows pocket AA for better full. 1 out cause he didnt have straight draw. Sucks ;/

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