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This bad-beat still hurts!!!
Well here it goes, I took this trip 2 weeks ago for the 21st of September weekend. A few buddies of mine and myself were out there for our annual "Weekend without the Wifes Federation" (WWF)! We had decided to stay at one hotel the whole weekend just because we love this hotel, the people are extremely cool and the eye candy is great. Well, we head over to the poker room and we all sat down at the $2/5 no limit and buy-in for $500.00. The dealers are great and the waitreses are somewhat beautiful so it makes the enjoyment of playing alot smoother. I see around the table for the 1st 15 minutes and spot a couple of sharks in the horizon and decide to stay away from them if caught in a hand with them. That was the plan and the demise of it too! After 3 hours, I'm up about $700.00 from the initial $500 I had bought in (Total = 1200.00). At this point I'm feeling good, confident of my play and like a freaking rockstar, when disaster strikes (not that I was playing bad poker). I'm on the button and I have Ah/Jh, everybody calls a $20 raise so I re-raise to $100. Everybody runs except for SB and BB, they just call. Flop comes out A/A/J (cant remember their suits). At this point there is about $500 in the pot and I just flopped a full house. SB checks, BB bets $100, I casually call and SB folds. Turn comes out and it's a 10. At this point in my head I'm going crazy nuts and just trying to see how much to bet to get all this guys money. So he checks it and I bet $350 half the pot, he calls. River comes and it's a Q. He bets $500 I go all-in (which he has me covered by $200), he calls and shows me A/Q. When I saw it, it hurt so much I just wanted to cry! To be honest with all of you, I dont know how to have played that hand better. I guess the poker gods werent at the MGM that night! At least not for me...
Tough beat. Was this at the B?
You had what I like to call a "Hand of Destiny". You flop the nuts, villain hit a 3-outer making it monster over monster, and you lost a big pot. There is no way all your money isn't going in the pot, he could just as easily have had AK, AT, or JJ and paid you off (or less likely but still possible TT or QQ, if he didn't think you had the A). Not your fault, just poker fate (or "cardma").
Better luck next time!
I am no poker genius, but if it happened just as you say I can not really see anyway that it works out differently. Perhaps if you had not popped it to $100 preflop you would have set the tone for a smaller pot and perhaps a less significant beat. In terms of the pain you are feeling after losing what sounds like around a $2600 pot, it must have really hurt, because it hurt me just reading about it. Sorry...just keep on truckin'.
Would not have mattered what you raised before the flop, all the money was going in one way or the other...
nothing you could have done... just plain sucks...
This is just further confirmation of my longstanding observation: 5 is rarely the right number of community cards in Texas Hold'em. About half the time, I want them to stop at 4. The other half, I want them to put out a 6th one. 5 is almost always either one too many or one too few.
In your case, I'd say it was one too many....
Sometimes youre just going to lose no matter what. Theres no way he's laying that hand down and neither are you. Sorry bro. We've all been there.
@Rakewell
Rakewell, for such a quiet guy, you crack me up!