Friday, January 13, 2012

Who has a bad beat hold'em story?

You know, if it weren't for bad beats, what would us poker players gripe about? My most recent bad beat occurred yesterday in the Fulltilt million dollar sunday tournament. Still early in the tournament (relatively) I was a couple of thousand above average. I have this maniac at the table who has three moves, call, all-in or fold. I was in cut off (unfortunately maniac has possition on me, he had the on). I end up with 7/7, I limp, there were a couple of limpers ahead of me. Maniac limps too. Flop comes 2/3/7 rainbow, I think whoopee!!! Action checks to me, I check, you guessed it, maniac all in (he has me covered by just a few hundred) folds back around to me, and I think, "well, I am ahead now so"... I call. Cards show, he has 6/6, I am thinking I am about to double up and go on to a healthy cash (I have almost always cashed good in these big tournaments when I have that ammount of chips at this stage). Well, stupid me doesn't think backdoor straight, and guess what comes, 5 is the turn, and 4 is the river, I didn't even see it until I got the little, "you finished...place in the tournament". Well, I was durn near fit to be tied. I watched for a little while, and saw his all ins squander the chips he took from me, and he didn't last another 35 minutes (with all the chips he had he still used the call, fold or all in method). The entry fee for the tournament was 500 + the vig, I won the seat in a satelitte, so I wasn't out that much but, still, ..... So there, one more of a trillion bad beat stories that I have, but, you know, I have put some on others myself with a reckless play or two...somehow, when I do it, I like to think of it as brilliant play.

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