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Your worst bad beat will never top this

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by playthrough, Jan 2, 2018.

  1. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

  2. ChrisLong

    ChrisLong Well-Known Member

    My dad won a $25,000 pot at the Hustler in Gardena, but they found an extra card in his hand. They voided the pot. Dad would not cheat and being 90+ he wasn't capable of manipulating cards like that. He was certain the guy next to him flipped the card. He didn't see it happen and couldn't prove it. I said he should have told them to check the video. But he didn't want to cause trouble.
     
  3. ICanRowCanoe?

    ICanRowCanoe? Member

    Wow. I've never heard of a bad-beat jackpot. I just google it, and amusingly, the first story that came up describes your exact scenario:

    A room filled with cash game players at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal split a $1,210,989 bad beat jackpot on Thursday. The jackpot hit at 5:20 p.m. ET when Shane Galle rivered a straight flush against the quad jacks of Elphege Delarosbil at a $1/2 no-limit hold'em table.

    Kind of crazy that in that story the guy with the bad beat won MORE than the guy with the straight flush.
     
  4. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    It's amazing how many marks will keep sitting at a table when a bad beat jackpot gets really big, hoping against hope that it comes in. And every poker room staffer has a story about a player leaving to take a whizz and missing a jackpot that was split by the whole table.
     
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  5. Double Down

    Double Down Well-Known Member

    After watching this several times, I don't believe for a second he wasn't trying to pull up the horse at the line. Check the jock's bank accounts, look for slit in his mattress or false bottom in his golf bag.
     
  6. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    One of the few times I played poker in a casino, I was at a table with a guy who wound up with quad 10s. He was doing everything he could to keep people in the pot, and then saying he hoped somebody pulled something out of their ass to beat him. I think the pot might have been $50 and the bad beat jackpot was about $20,000.
     
  7. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Toledo football throwing the Buffalo game in '05 cost me a 6-team parlay amd 2,000 bucks.
     
  8. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    I've seen one hit once at the table next to mine, at the casino in Gatineau, Quebec. Hit for around $400,000.

    EDIT: I should add that I play a lot of poker, and I've seen that single one. I've had quads beat once, in the aforementioned non-bad beat bad beat.
     
  9. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    Usually the "loser" takes home the largest percentage, the winner the second cut, and then every player in the hand or at the table gets a little cut, too.

    The Playground gets some huge jackpots. It's a great room.
     
  10. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    I play a decent amount around LA poker clubs. I've never been at a table where a bad beat hit.
    And nothing is 'free' in life. That rake per hand is not cheap.
     
  11. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Your state plays a middle school/junior high playoff? Not even Arkansas, which is junior high crazy, does that.
     
  12. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    What's your place?
     
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