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So, my worst "bad beat" in poker EVER happened tonight. Here's what happened.
I was playing a home game, started around 11:00 pm or so. Bought in $100, about the usual. We were playing Texas Hold 'Em, no limit, with $1-$2 blinds. I noticed right off the bat people were playing really loose, so I sat back, waited for my hands to come, and let people bet into me, and then I moved in a cleaned up. I was up to about $400 by 2:30 am. At this point, by the way, there's probably about $1200-1500 in chips on the table, in play.
So I play for a while longer, start losing a few hands, go down to about $300. No big deal, streaks happen. That's poker. After a little while, I get dealt the best hand one can have to start with in Hold 'Em - two Aces (the way the game works is that each player gets two cards face down, and then 5 community cards with which to make the best 5 card hand). So I have the best hand, by far, no questions asked.
I raise $15 immediately. Next guy folds, then the next guy reraises to $50. I'm loving it. Guy after him folds, then the last person to act reraises all in, which is about another $300. I'm loving it even more - here's an opportunity to double up. Needless to say, I call, as does the guy who bet $50.
So we all turn up our cards. I have my aces. The next guy has Ace-King, which, for those of you who don't know, is one of the WORST hands you can have when someone else has Aces. The other guy in the hand only has a pair of twos. I'm an 81%-19% favorite against the twos, and also a huge favorite against the Ace-King (don't know the exact numbers there, but it's big).
I'm feeling good, the other two are looking sick. So the five community cards come up. The first three are Queen, Jack, 10. The next two are 9s. I absolutely **** myself at this point - the guy with Ace-King, a horrible hand against my hand, flopped the nut straight. Obviously the 9s didn't help me. Instead of sitting on around $800-$900 after that hand (which pays my rent, for example, for a month and a half), I'm out. On the best hand in poker, against one of the worst hands to call the best hand with.
I'm not upset about losing $100 - **** happens, hell, last week I was up $700 for the week, so I'm not complaining. But this was an opportunity for me to walk with almost $1000, for 4 hours of "work", and instead I got screwed.
I was playing a home game, started around 11:00 pm or so. Bought in $100, about the usual. We were playing Texas Hold 'Em, no limit, with $1-$2 blinds. I noticed right off the bat people were playing really loose, so I sat back, waited for my hands to come, and let people bet into me, and then I moved in a cleaned up. I was up to about $400 by 2:30 am. At this point, by the way, there's probably about $1200-1500 in chips on the table, in play.
So I play for a while longer, start losing a few hands, go down to about $300. No big deal, streaks happen. That's poker. After a little while, I get dealt the best hand one can have to start with in Hold 'Em - two Aces (the way the game works is that each player gets two cards face down, and then 5 community cards with which to make the best 5 card hand). So I have the best hand, by far, no questions asked.
I raise $15 immediately. Next guy folds, then the next guy reraises to $50. I'm loving it. Guy after him folds, then the last person to act reraises all in, which is about another $300. I'm loving it even more - here's an opportunity to double up. Needless to say, I call, as does the guy who bet $50.
So we all turn up our cards. I have my aces. The next guy has Ace-King, which, for those of you who don't know, is one of the WORST hands you can have when someone else has Aces. The other guy in the hand only has a pair of twos. I'm an 81%-19% favorite against the twos, and also a huge favorite against the Ace-King (don't know the exact numbers there, but it's big).
I'm feeling good, the other two are looking sick. So the five community cards come up. The first three are Queen, Jack, 10. The next two are 9s. I absolutely **** myself at this point - the guy with Ace-King, a horrible hand against my hand, flopped the nut straight. Obviously the 9s didn't help me. Instead of sitting on around $800-$900 after that hand (which pays my rent, for example, for a month and a half), I'm out. On the best hand in poker, against one of the worst hands to call the best hand with.
I'm not upset about losing $100 - **** happens, hell, last week I was up $700 for the week, so I'm not complaining. But this was an opportunity for me to walk with almost $1000, for 4 hours of "work", and instead I got screwed.
ACK!
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