Forget bad beats ...

30-person cash game last night.

I was short-stacked all night long.

Kept biding my time.....went all-in 9 times.....and never lost a hand........

Until the last hand......down to 2 players......Get QJ....raise it......girl across catches AK and re-raises it...I move all-in...I had her on a medium pair (she was catching 6's and 7's all night and several times I had QJ/Q10 and won) figuring I was 2:3 and could catch. AK held.

Oh well....up 130 from a 20-buy in.

 

Exactly. It's about looking smart instead of playing smart.

I'd pay that off every time and twice on Sundays.

 

Thanks, Buck, but who gets it, the button, or the guy who follows the big blind?

 

The guy after the big blind gets the straddle. It changes who starts and who's last to act on the first round. It also, obviously, raises the minimum bet.
Most of the time you want everybody at the table to agree to it. It sucks to put the straddle on, only to have some guy two-three hands later say 'I never agreed to straddle.'
If I straddle a hand for $6 in a $1-3 game and lose, I'm fine with that. If the guy to my left won't put the straddle on on the next hand, I get annoyed.
Because he's an *sshole.

 

My best -- and worst incidentally -- are also bad-beat pots.
The best: 4:30 a.m., playing all day on a seven-card stud table with a $20,000 bad-beat jackpot.

I'm down to like three dollars and they call last two hands because the casinos in KC close. I go all in and rake about five dollars when everyone folds to me.

Last hand of the night I have pocket fives with a J showing and get all in with two callers. Fourth street is another five for me and pairs an Ace for one of the other guys. Check, check by the guys still with money and fifth street is my fourth five and a J for the aces. For some reason he checks again and it goes to sixth street and he gets another J for two pair on the board. He bets and the third guy drops, leaving $25 dollars in the pot (exactly the amount to qualify for the jackpot).

I flip over quads and he just has the two pair. I think, well, at least I made back part of the $60 I bought in for. Then the beautiful bastard pops an ace on the river and I go home with $5,600 but not before the dealer gets all snarky saying he doesn't think there is enough money in the pot to qualify for the bad beat (which there really would have been had they fucked me out of $5,600, and it would have been in the parking lot with the smart-ass dealer).

The bad: I pull a royal in five cards (the only one I've had) and am betting like mad and getting re-raised in a low-limit game by a guy with four connecting spades (2-3-4-5) showing. Everyone is thinking he has to have the straight flush and we're gonna split up $60,000. The table is freaking because we can feel the bad beat. But no, the old fucker mis-read his hand with the Ace of clubs instead of spades. He swears he had the spade.

I won like $56 but wasted a whole lot of adrenaline.

 

I'm assuming that when he went all-in post-flop that you put him on a set. If you were sure enough he had aces that you would fold with that flop, you never should have called in the first place and you certainly shouldn't have bet post-flop.

 

I wouldn't even know what parameters to use to translate this to English on babelfish.

 

That doesn't sound like a bad beat, just unlucky.
Weren't you ahead at every stage?

 

I've got two, that I think qualify:

Holding A-4 of clubs in the big blind. I've got five callers, I check. Flop comes K-J-Q of clubs. Player one checks, player 2 goes all in, fold, fold, fold, I call. The other guy gets out of the way and it's just me and him. He turns over a K-3 .... I turnover the nut flush with a possible royal. Didn't get the royal but I busted that guy out. By the way it's an Amateur poker league.

Second one, I'm looking down at pocket 7s, and am kinda short stacked. I get a call, a re-raise to all-in (not much), a call for all-in as well and I call it and so does the other guy.

Flop comes Xc-7-X giving me my set. Guy left of me checks (I'm dealing by the way) I go all-in for 1,800 more he calls. I turn over my set. He calls and turns over a-6 of clubs. Guy first to go all-in turns over A-A, guy next to him turns over Q-Q. I won the pot and busted two people out.

 

I didn't have him on aces or a set. I just had him on something better than what I was holding, based on his play throughout. I'm not saying I am a genius, but I did make the right laydown.

 

This is the biggest hand I've played:



The big action was post-flop. Peeling chased every single flush draw, no matter the bet.