I've had some amazing bad beats, but never like this one. On Fulltilt.
On a 3 way all in shove, I got in there with pocket aces against two guys who both had pocket 6s... and lost! (10 high straight)
I was literally dumbfounded LOL.
Has anyone seen a hand where a dominant pocket pair lost to two other players who were both holding the same under pair?
Playing on 888, I had pocket 10s, and flop came 2-5-10. Went all in, and two guys call. Was up again A5 and AK. Turn comes 3, river the 4. This is as the tournament is nearing the final 20 out of a few hundred.
Keep in mind that I won the tournament before this one. I was WAITING for a brutal beat because I've seen it way too often after winning a tournament only to be ousted in the next one by some weird/impossible hand. Then after getting a brutally bad beat, the system rewards you the next go round by hitting cards.
That honestly got me off the site for 6+ months.
6 months later I decided to come back for one single tournament because as has always happened, the cards atone. I finished 3rd, made $500, and called it a career on triple 8.
I think the thing that bothered me most was KNOWING it would come down to someone having to draw the 1-2% odds. I played the cycle, cashed out and will never go back.
Well, you can find these bad beat stories everywhere.
It gets annoying really.
I can tell you a hand on FTP which I played after like half a year break, where I had pocket 9s, raised 3x BB, guy called, flop 99J, I check, guy raises I re-raise all-in, he calls, he had J7 (ye, it was a freeroll).
Turn J.
River J.
Every single poker player can tell you a bad beat story of his lifetime.
Beats happen, this is actually why poker gained so much popularity during the recent years.
Luck element allows lesser players to take down even pros.
Bad beats can happen anywhere, but they seem to be of greater potential online.
Would you disagree?
Can you tell me how many times you've flopped quads vs a pair? As you would know, out of 100x that hand should hold up 99 at least. You would definitely need to document your winning hands to come up with actual numbers, but it just seems to me, anyways, that online doesn't adhere to actual odds or randomization of cards.
Yep online some people will call with anything, which makes it hard to play if you are not hitting your cards.
I've lost another one similar to what someone posted above.
I had Q 10 and flopped a fullhouse, 10 10 Q board. He checks, I small bet, call. J on the turn. I am hoping he hit a straight, so a large bet. Call. Another J. Now he shoves all in, and I am thinking goddam he has a J. But what was I gonna do? Most of my stack was already in, I had him covered, it was one-sixth of the pot, so I called even though I felt I probably lost.
The guy had J8 and was chasing a gutshot str. Sonnavab...