Worst Bad Beats

[Gyp Rosetti]

Quite a few years back I played a lot online--semi-professionally. I went on a terrible run for a month and started getting all black helicopter on the system. Over the course of roughly an hour on the last day, I kept getting pocket pairs and hitting them on the flop. I kept pushing the flop all-in because after my dog run I was too paranoid of suckouts to play them through. I lost 9 flopped sets in a row, every one all in on the flop, and most to an over pair. There were a couple flush draws and a gut shot or something, I don't really remember now, but not enough to bring the odds down from an astronomical amount. I remember the gut shot because I flopped a boat and it was a one outer to the straight flush.

I started pounding the calculator and it came out to something like less than 1 in 5,000,000 chance of losing all nine in a row. That's when I quit and have never played the game the same since. It's all recreational for me now.

You sound like a bitch. Grow a pair and fall off the wagon.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

That's a bit hyperbole but I've heard the same logic and it make sense but man, I don't know. Do you play online?

I used to play at Pokerroom.com before they stopped taking American dollars, and I'm too lazy to go the hoops necessary to put money into Pokerstars. So I'm reduced to playing the free rolls that Poker Stars sets up for money tournaments I usually am not available to play, so I've got about a dozen tickets into the free rolls that play.

And it really isn't hyperbole. Those online sites go through an amazing amount of hands per minute.

 

[UB]

Worst bad beat?


Easy. 7th grade. During a choir assembly. She was completely unskilled.

 

[UB]

Worst bad beat?


Easy. 7th grade. During a choir assembly. He was completely unskilled.

Fixed that for me.

 

[franklin]

You sound like a bitch. Grow a pair and fall off the wagon.

Pretty much. I fell off and don't want back on.

I used to play at Pokerroom.com before they stopped taking American dollars, and I'm too lazy to go the hoops necessary to put money into Pokerstars. So I'm reduced to playing the free rolls that Poker Stars sets up for money tournaments I usually am not available to play, so I've got about a dozen tickets into the free rolls that play.

It's pretty easy with a checking account.

And it really isn't hyperbole. Those online sites go through an amazing amount of hands per minute.

Agreed. Working example: It's not all that uncommon to have AA vs KK on a full table--something like 1 in 24 when you have KK. You get KK one in about 330 hands. Add the other nine players from each table you're playing to the high hand rate, and you'll see KK on AA often enough that even back-to-back isn't that outstanding.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

I used to play at Pokerroom.com before they stopped taking American dollars, and I'm too lazy to go the hoops necessary to put money into Pokerstars. So I'm reduced to playing the free rolls that Poker Stars sets up for money tournaments I usually am not available to play, so I've got about a dozen tickets into the free rolls that play.

And it really isn't hyperbole. Those online sites go through an amazing amount of hands per minute.

Yes, but I myself am sitting at one table. I don't play 10 tables at once like some people. So on one table, if I go through two hands a minute, that's maybe 4-6 times greater than live poker where the hands take maybe 2-3 minutes on average. There are therefore about five times as many hands played per minute online. And it's my unproven belief based on instinct that tells me that the bad beats I've experienced have happened at a far greater rate than 5x that of live poker. Again, that's just my belief of course.

 

[Darkwing Duck]

It's pretty easy with a checking account.

My bank is one of those that doesn't allow transfer to Poker Stars because of that legislation about "gambling sites" or something like that several years back. I can't do straight transfer and don't want to use online banks and such to do so.

Plus, I'm poor right now, so I couldn't do it right now, anyway.

 

[Gameface]

Here I am handing out a bad beat

Or does it count since I was ahead the whole time?

 

[Darkwing Duck]

I've never gotten one of those.

EDIT:

Just think if the dude would have had pocket tens. That would have been a worser beat.

 

[TheDude]

Beautiful hand Gameface! Over the 1000's and 1000's of hands I have played online or live in the last 10 years, I have had a Royal exactly twice.

 

[LogGrad98]

I was sitting on pocket 9's (9c 9s). I know, tough hand. The flop showed 9d 8s 8d. I am thinking, finally a good hand. The pot was a bra, 2 pair of panties, one pair of shorts, 2 socks and one pair of boxers. All I had left was boxers, socks, and undershirt. I liked my odds and had a couple opponents who were pretty brash, so I went all in. 3 called, all of them with panties and/or bra.

Now the crappy part.

Right across from me she turned over pocket 10's, both red. So far so good. No 8 draw and I am sitting pretty.

Turn - 10c
River - 10s

It was sad, cold, so very cold, day.

According to house rules all I could do was stand there and watch the rest of the game, shriveled in defeat.