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TheDude

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So it looks like we have quite a few poker players on the site, so was wondering what your worst beat was. I have taken several brutal ones, but the worst was about 6 months ago in Reno:

I am playing $2/$4 No Limit Hold Em at the Peppermill. I am on the button with KK. 2 people call the blind. So right now just $14 in the pot. I 4x raise the BB to $16. Both blinds fold. The other 2 call. Flop comes out: Ks Qs Qd. So I flop K's full. 1st player checks, next player bets $25. So now just under $40 in the pot. I am thinking the better probably called the raise with either KQ or AQ. If he called with 2 spades I don't really care (actually hope for) because I already have the boat. So I 3x raise th bet to $75. 1st position insta-folds. The better instantly goes all in for all of my chips. I had about $350 left behind. Now I am a little worried that she actually might have pocket Q's and flopped quads. I think for a moment, and decide that I am confident I have the best hand. I call. So there's roughly $900 in the pot now. I flip over K's full, and she flips over As Js. A small sense of relief comes over me because she is so dominated. The turn is a blank. The river, however, is the 10s giving her the Royal Flush.

BRUTAL!

Let's hear yours.
 
I recently had a bad beat... let me see if I can remember this correctly..

My hand: Q 6

Flop: Q 6 7
Turn: 6
River: K

I went all in with the full house. 6s full of Queens.

Go figure the lucky ******* had pocket 7s. Man I was pissed. Good thing is I've won the last two times I've played with that crew.
 
Lance-A-Million said:
I recently had a bad beat... let me see if I can remember this correctly..

My hand: Q 6

Flop: Q 6 7
Turn: 6
River: K

I went all in with the full house. 6s full of Queens.

Go figure the lucky ******* had pocket 7s. Man I was pissed. Good thing is I've won the last two times I've played with that crew.
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That's not a bad beat. You had the lowest possible full house and could lose to pocket 7's, Q's, or K's.
 
YB85 said:
That's not a bad beat. You had the lowest possible full house and could lose to pocket 7's, Q's, or K's.
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Yeah but what exactly are the odds of my one opponent having pocket 7s, Qs or Ks? The odds of being dealt each pocket pair is .45%, so, what I had just over a 1% chance of losing or almost a 99% chance of winning... seems like a pretty bad beat to me.
 
Not to mention their odds of having a pocket pair are
considerabley less knowing what I had and what was on the board
 
Lance-A-Million said:
Yeah but what exactly are the odds of my one opponent having pocket 7s, Qs or Ks? The odds of being dealt each pocket pair is .45%, so, what I had just over a 1% chance of losing or almost a 99% chance of winning... seems like a pretty bad beat to me.
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Not a bad beat since you were never ahead and were dominated at every street. Could say you were coolered, but even then, full houses losing to full houses isn't THAT uncommon with seven cards in play.

In the last home game I played, got beat by they guy you don't want to beat by, the guy with little to no poker skill. The guy that hits a pair and rolls with it. Finally got that chance to break him. Don't remember the exact cards, but I'm pretty sure I had top against a small pair. Got all in on the flop. He backdoored a straight.

Sucky thing is, he's won both times we've done the home game, and doesn't let us forget about it either.
 
Lance-A-Million said:
Not to mention their odds of having a pocket pair are
considerabley less knowing what I had and what was on the board
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That's poor reasoning. Dude's going to fold 99% of that supposed 99% that isn't a pocket pair in that situation, so the odds of him having a hand that beats you is significantly higher than you think.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
That's poor reasoning. Dude's going to fold 99% of that supposed 99% that isn't a pocket pair in that situation, so the odds of him having a hand that beats you is significantly higher than you think.
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I mean that's true. So touché to that. It still certainly felt like a bad beat,
probably had to do with the drama behind the hand. Though I stand by it. When you lose to a
1% chance it's a bad beat. It would be different if he hadn't had to have pocket cards to win. Also, combined with the fact that his 7s were just one greater than my 6s
 
TheDude said:
So it looks like we have quite a few poker players on the site, so was wondering what your worst beat was. I have taken several brutal ones, but the worst was about 6 months ago in Reno:

I am playing $2/$4 No Limit Hold Em at the Peppermill. I am on the button with KK. 2 people call the blind. So right now just $14 in the pot. I 4x raise the BB to $16. Both blinds fold. The other 2 call. Flop comes out: Ks Qs Qd. So I flop K's full. 1st player checks, next player bets $25. So now just under $40 in the pot. I am thinking the better probably called the raise with either KQ or AQ. If he called with 2 spades I don't really care (actually hope for) because I already have the boat. So I 3x raise th bet to $75. 1st position insta-folds. The better instantly goes all in for all of my chips. I had about $350 left behind. Now I am a little worried that she actually might have pocket Q's and flopped quads. I think for a moment, and decide that I am confident I have the best hand. I call. So there's roughly $900 in the pot now. I flip over K's full, and she flips over As Js. A small sense of relief comes over me because she is so dominated. The turn is a blank. The river, however, is the 10s giving her the Royal Flush.

BRUTAL!

Let's hear yours.
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Mine was online about four or five years ago. I can't recall if it was Full Tilt or Poker Stars, though I trust neither (or should I say none) and it was the second or third tournament in a series of steps. This was the final tourney and I believe there were about 300 people total, with the Final pot being about 100K. I think first place took somewhere in the neighborhood of 40K. Anyway, I was doing well (in the top 20 or so as far as chips, maybe better) and we were down to around 160 people if I recall correctly. I had K/Q off and decided to bet about 3.5 times the blinds. The guy to my left called. The flop came out K, Q, J. I was obviously worried about A/10 but decided to bet big. The guy raised me all-in, and I called. He had pocket aces so I was ahead with my two pair. The turn came and it was another king, giving me the boat...then the river came and it was another ace, giving him a better boat.

I was furious. Pre-flop he had the better hand. But knowing I was better after the flop (which is when he went all-in)and turn, it hurt and hurt bad, epecially since I would have been the chip leader with a 40K first place payday.
 
KrazeeEyezKilla said:
Mine was online about four or five years ago. I can't recall if it was Full Tilt or Poker Stars, though I trust neither (or should I say none) and it was the second or third tournament in a series of steps. This was the final tourney and I believe there were about 300 people total, with the Final pot being about 100K. I think first place took somewhere in the neighborhood of 40K. Anyway, I was doing well (in the top 20 or so as far as chips, maybe better) and we were down to around 160 people if I recall correctly. I had K/Q off and decided to bet about 3.5 times the blinds. The guy to my left called. The flop came out K, Q, J. I was obviously worried about A/10 but decided to bet big. The guy raised me all-in, and I called. He had pocket aces so I was ahead with my two pair. The turn came and it was another king, giving me the boat...then the river came and it was another ace, giving him a better boat.

I was furious. Pre-flop he had the better hand. But knowing I was better after the flop (which is when he went all-in)and turn, it hurt and hurt bad, epecially since I would have been the chip leader with a 40K first place payday.
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Well, with the betting done, he had 9 outs with two to go, so around 83-17 Maybe 84-16 with redraws and the possible tie with a Broadway board. Not the worst of beats, but given the stakes, I can easily see how that's the worst you've experienced.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
Well, with the betting done, he had 9 outs with two to go, so around 83-17 Maybe 84-16 with redraws and the possible tie with a Broadway board. Not the worst of beats, but given the stakes, I can easily see how that's the worst you've experienced.
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Do you trust online sites?
 
Lance-A-Million said:
I mean that's true. So touché to that. It still certainly felt like a bad beat,
probably had to do with the drama behind the hand. Though I stand by it. When you lose to a
1% chance it's a bad beat. It would be different if he hadn't had to have pocket cards to win. Also, combined with the fact that his 7s were just one greater than my 6s
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Losing with sixes full of queens to seven full of sixes is no different than losing with twos full of threes to aces full of twos. Distance doesn't matter at all. Why does is matter that 7 is one more than 6 when 7 wins at the same rate ace beats 6, 100%? Flip sevens with jacks and it's the exact same hand.

It's also hard for me to believe that you can't remember if the 7 was on the river because that would change the hand drastically. You're going to play a hand completely different if you have pocket 7s and a flop of K, Q, 6 rather than Q, 6, 7. Your hand would also be weaker on the flop with bottom two, rather than top and bottom pair. Would it have been a bad beat in your mind if the board went K, Q, 6, turn 6, river 7 and the guy had pocket kings? No different than pocket sevens with the board Q, 7, 6, turn 6, river K.
 
Quite a few years back I played a lot online--semi-professionally. I went on a terrible run for a month and started getting all black helicopter on the system. Over the course of roughly an hour on the last day, I kept getting pocket pairs and hitting them on the flop. I kept pushing the flop all-in because after my dog run I was too paranoid of suckouts to play them through. I lost 9 flopped sets in a row, every one all in on the flop, and most to an over pair. There were a couple flush draws and a gut shot or something, I don't really remember now, but not enough to bring the odds down from an astronomical amount. I remember the gut shot because I flopped a boat and it was a one outer to the straight flush.

I started pounding the calculator and it came out to something like less than 1 in 5,000,000 chance of losing all nine in a row. That's when I quit and have never played the game the same since. It's all recreational for me now.
 
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