FlyingCarpet

I would love to have this bad beat at just about any live casino since they almost all now have the Bad Beat Jackpot and the loser gets the biggest chunk. Yeah, it would suck to lose the $ in the pot, but more than made up for cashing the $10k++++ BBJ

EWC-JMU

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Originally Posted by marcvh
I've been on the raw end of something similar but with a backdoor draw, which makes it even worse.

I get the mighty AA. I re-raise before the flop, which comes up AQT. I push all-in and get a call from a guy who is pot-committed with 99. I figure that unless he hits a straight I'm golden. The turn comes up 9, giving him a set, but I'm still well ahead... damned if the case 9 didn't come up on the river.

I figure it'll be a long time before I experience a worse beat than that.

I'm not sure you would want marcvh's bad beat FlyingCarpet. Don't most if not all bad beat jackpots require that the losing had be at least aces full of jacks? marcvh's losing hand was aces full of nines.

mctrees02

I've made one straight flush in my 7 yrs of playing...and since it's in the BB thread...you know that I lost.

5/10 NL (start with $2200)
EP limps..hero limps (approx $3500)...I raise to 75 from the button with 8h9h. Blinds fold, EP folds, MP calls.

Flop (Pot = 175)

:-::-::-:10h Jh Qh:-::-::-:

Hero bets 100. I call.

Turn (Pot = 375)

Kc

Hero checks. I bet 400. Hero calls.

River (Pot = 1175)

10d

Hero bets 500. I raise to 1100. Hero waits for a few seconds...checks his cards...and calls.

I turn over my straight flush...he turns over...
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Ah Kh

That's right. Not only did I flop a straight flush when he flopped a royal flush...I got slow rolled by the nuts. At least he was nice enough (read dumb enough) to leave me with $525 in my stack instead of taking it all from me on that hand.

aisleorwindow

He just called - he didn't reraise you all-in?? What the...???

mctrees02

My thoughts exactly. I figured once he called that I was good and I started to reach for the pot. At first I wondered if maybe he thought he had a straight or something. That's what annoyed me the most...

EWC-JMU

Strange indeed. My only thought is that maybe he put you on a weak tens-full boat that he thought you might lay down if he came over the top of you and tried to put you all in. I doubt it though, because if he had half a brain he would have seen that you were so pot-committed at that point that you almost certainly would call.

Man, I know it's annoying to get slow-rolled and sucked out, especially when you think you have the nuts, but you really did play the hand better than he did. A lesser player would have pushed in a nanosecond in response to his bet on the river. Any bad beat in NL that leaves you with at least some of your stack isn't as bad as it could be.

marcvh

Not to mention that this was in a tournament, not a cash game. Oh well.

mctrees02

I was really just trying to value bet him on the river. His bet on the flop confused me. Virtually any player who flops a royal flush would at least take a card off to let the other guy catch up and hopefully make some money. Once he bet the flop and then checks the turn when the board had a 4 flush and a lot of straight possibilities, I had to figure that I was good (also accounting for the limp, call preflop). I was hoping that overbetting the pot on the turn would make him think I was semi-bluffing with a 4 flush and that whatever he had was good. When the board paired on the river and he bet, I was almost convinced he had either Q/10, j/10, or had flopped a set and rivered a boat...thus the 600 raise to a 500 bet. Oops...