[plagueboy]

Played four tourneys this weekend and went out on the bubble on three, all with bad beats.

Bad Beat 1:

I had A,A and got all my chips in preflop.

Turned out the donky was calling with 5,5.

Flop came, x,x,5.

Bad Beat 2:

I had A,A and raised enough to get one caller.

Flop came 2,6,10

Guy raised and I went all in and got called.

Donky turned over 7,10.

Turn was a 10.

Bad Beat 3:

I had A,7:

Flop came: 7,7,9

Guy raised and I went all in.

Other guy had 7,9.

Turn was a 9.

I was in 2nd or 3rd place in chips each time but got busted in fourth place!

Grr.

Only placed 3rd in the other one.

Edit: damn, wrong forum

[JHickle]

AA is only good for two things:
1.) Winning a little pot
2.) Losing a big pot

My bad beat over the weekend was more stupid poker than bad beat. Went all in on the button with AQ and only blinds remaining. BB calls, committing 75% of chip stack and turns over a pair of 3s

How does someone make that kind of call? At best it's a coin toss and a major dog to any pair (other than 2s)

Never the less, the 3s held up and I went home steaming.........

[plagueboy]

Originally Posted by JHickle

AA is only good for two things:
1.) Winning a little pot
2.) Losing a big pot

My bad beat over the weekend was more stupid poker than bad beat. Went all in on the button with AQ and only blinds remaining. BB calls, committing 75% of chip stack and turns over a pair of 3s

How does someone make that kind of call? At best it's a coin toss and a major dog to any pair (other than 2s)

Never the less, the 3s held up and I went home steaming.........

In theory, the odds are that if you get your money in preflop with A,A that you'll double up more often than you bust. Statistically, it hasn't worked out for me, and I feel ya. Donkeys calling with 7,10 and 5,5 and your 3,3 is just stupid. It's not like I have a reputation for bluffing, either.

[Derryabu]

Originally Posted by plagueboy

Bad Beat 3:

I had A,7:

Flop came: 7,7,9

Guy raised and I went all in.

Other guy had 7,9.

Turn was a 9.

I was in 2nd or 3rd place in chips each time but got busted in fourth place!

Grr.

Only placed 3rd in the other one.

Edit: damn, wrong forum

Unless you typed this wrong this isn't a bad beat,you got your money in behind,the 9 on the turn only strengthened his hand but he was leading anyway.

[OnTheButton]

Here's one for you. (Not technically a "bad beat", but surely a huge suck out.)

Last tournament we played a few weeks ago.

Our cash games are regulars with an occasional guest. Our tournaments are "everyone is welcome" bring anyone, fill the tables, the more the merrier.

I'm to the left of one of our players room-mates, a blond girl with a pile of empty beer cans by her chair that you could use to teach a young child how to count.

She's played ONCE before. Half the game is spent explaining to her why she lost and why she won some of the hands she was playing.

I look down and see:



And push up a 4x BB of a raise. Enough that everyone folds but her. She calls.

The flop comes:



Bingo. Broadway straight, what a flop! Even a rainbow!

I put our a nice pot sized raise, and she flat calls. Hmmm, thanks for the chips lady.

Turn hits:



Oh yeah, this has GOT to be mine! No flushes, highest straight, worst case she also has a Queen, and we split pot. That'll have to do. Time to run with it.

I push all in, I have about 1000 chips more than her, and the pot is now about 12,000.

She calls. Yum, yum. yum. I'm probably gonna be stack leader at this table.

We flip the cards, and she's got the most unsuspecting hand I could imagine:



Fantastic! My flopped straight to her flopped trip Aces. Now I know why she was calling me the whole way. I can see the other players faces at the table, gritting their teeth and wincing that I will have enough chips to push them around now.

River drops.







Footnote: Blondie is now sitting on a fat stack and ends up giving it all away in the next hour on bottom pairs, bad kickers, and not letting go of smaller pocket pairs. Gaaaaaa.

[coyote]

Originally Posted by plagueboy

In theory, the odds are that if you get your money in preflop with A,A that you'll double up more often than you bust. Statistically, it hasn't worked out for me, and I feel ya. Donkeys calling with 7,10 and 5,5 and your 3,3 is just stupid. It's not like I have a reputation for bluffing, either.

obviously the problem is that you didn't push all in and then flip your AA over.

Sucks to lose, but this is all just short term variance.

[plagueboy]

Originally Posted by Derryabu

Unless you typed this wrong this isn't a bad beat,you got your money in behind,the 9 on the turn only strengthened his hand but he was leading anyway.

This is a bad beat, when only two hands will beat you, and you put him on a 7 with a worse kicker.

[plagueboy]

Originally Posted by OnTheButton

...Blondie is now sitting on a fat stack and ends up giving it all away in the next hour on bottom pairs, bad kickers, and not letting go of smaller pocket pairs. Gaaaaaa.

That's harsh. At least she was still sitting at the same table, and you had some chips left, eh?

[plagueboy]

Originally Posted by coyote

obviously the problem is that you didn't push all in and then flip your AA over.

Sucks to lose, but this is all just short term variance.

See, you guys convinced me to have more confidence in the odds, and look what happens.

[PhilTheThrill14]

Nope - not a bad beat. Crappy way to lose - yes. bad beat no. Otherwise everytime you lost to a better hand after the flop hit you it would be a bad beat. it just isn't. The flop hit you - and it hit him.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Derryabu
Unless you typed this wrong this isn't a bad beat,you got your money in behind,the 9 on the turn only strengthened his hand but he was leading anyway.


This is a bad beat, when only two hands will beat you, and you put him on a 7 with a worse kicker.