What's the worst beat (NLHE) you've ever taken?

Question

I'm sure there will be some horror stories, but here's one that I'll always remember:

I had taken a few bad beats and went from comfortable to the short stack. I was pretty much just waiting for a hand to go all in with, or for somebody ahead of me to go all in so I would be in a heads up situation. Finally, i get a hand: AK suited. Then, almost on cue, the player under the gun goes all in with a stack big enough to scare away everybody. I call, and everybody else folds around...and he flips over 23 of hearts! He was almost on the pure bluff!

I think he was pretty embarassed to turn over that c**p, but since he had me covered, there was no choice.

So the flop comes down:

2 8 8!

Un freaking believable!

The turn: 8

The river...3!!!!!!

I was beat pretty much all the way, but that 3 on the river was just adding insult to injury.

Answer 1

Pocket Kings. Flop comes 8 K 3. First guy bets. I raise him a little. He goes all in. I call. He has Ace 8. Turn is an 8. River of course is an 8. To give him running 4 of a kind quads.

He later appologized saying he was just bluffing at it not thinking I had a hand.

Also had pocket 5's, flop brings 7 5 7, i got the full house, other guy puts me all in, I call with the boat. He has Ace King, yes Ace King nothing.  Turn is a 7, river is a 7. Again running quads that counterfits my full house. He now has 7 7 7 7 A, I have 7 7 7 7 5. The Ace played.

He said nothing because he was a donk.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I got you all beat. I called in the small blind with 8-9 spades. Flop comes 10s Js X (I don't remember the third card). I put out a decent bet and get called. The turn was the Queen of spades. Jackpot! I hit the straight flush, right? I put out a medium bet and get called. Here comes the river, King of spades. No worries though, I have the second highest hand possible. We both get our stacks in (it was an online tourney) , and of course he turns over the Ace of spades. I lost with the second highest hand in poker.

Answer 4

In a home tournament I was starting to get a little short stacked.  The big stack was known as a maniac, and with blinds 200/400 he made it 1500 to go from UTG.  I called with AQ suited out of the BB.  Flop came A82 rainbow.  I checked, maniac bet 1000, I raised to 3000 and was all in.  He shrugged, said, "I guess I'm pot committed" and called.  Turned over T5o.  He had NOTHING.  No draws, no pairs, needed running cards, and was a 27:1 underdog to lose the hand.  Sure enough he hit a 5 on the turn and a T on the river and knocked me out.

I also once lost with quad kings when my opponent hit quad aces on the river.  But I wasn't all in until the river, so I consider that unlucky but still being outplayed instead of a bad beat.  I can't even tell you how many times I've flopped a set and had somebody push with a draw that of course they make.  But that T5 is still, in my mind, the most ridiculous beat I've ever taken.  I outplayed that guy nine ways from Sunday and still lost.  I guess that's poker.

Answer 5

Happened live. We were heads up in a tourney and I had 79 in the bb. The sb limped and we saw a flop, which came 68T. I flopped the nuts and check. My opponent moved all-in and I called. He showed top pair, and the turn and river gave him quads.

Answer 6

The one I 'enjoyed' the most happened in a small-time family SnG with a $10 buy-in.

We were down to heads up, and our pay-out structure was 'after an hour, you get paid for how many chips you have' so there was no reason to risk chips in a bad spot.

We were down to the last 5 minutes.  Blinds were 300/600.  I had 3500, he had 11500.  I was the button.

I looked down and saw KK.  Because any raise was 1/2 my chips, I went all-in.

He called.

With 3 6 of spades.

For 1/3 of his chips, and all but losing the chip lead.

The flop was s s s ... I was out.

Answer 7

In a tournament I flopped a set of Qs, on a flop of Q-8-X pushed all-in and got 3 callers who all had J-10, and they hit a 9 on the turn to give all three of them the gutshot straight.  It was unbelievable.

Answer 8

2-3suited vs. AKsuited is like 35/65, hardly "worst bad beat ever".

To answer your question however, would be difficult for me, I play online very regularly I can't even count how many 1 outers I have lost to over the years.  I can't remember the specific cards, but I can recall making it deep into a $100 buy-in tourney, we were close to the bubble, I was all-in with the nut flush and lost to a straight flush on the river.

Answer 9

67 suited and flopped 7 7 7.  Ace on turn and river gave the hand to opponent with AA.

Answer 10

Hmmm, the worst bad beat.  I have had so many that it is hard to say, I'll give you 2 that stick out in my mind the most.  

One online and one in a live cash game.  

Bad beat #1 Back when U.S. citizens could play on Party Poker, they used to do a series of Step Tournamnets for WSOP packages.  I was playing in the final table step to which I won my way there by literally advancing every single step (the final table cost $1,200 + the vig if you purchased your seat).  Early on before I ever took the blind the first time, I limped with 6/6 (3 other limpers including the blinds) the flop comes 5-6-5, the b.b. bets 2xs the pot, I smooth call.  Everyone else folds.  The turn comes 2 the b.b. pushes all in, I call, hands are shown, he has j-5 os.  I am like great, he is drawing dead to 1 out, I am doubling up early....I have 6's full he has trip 5s, you guessed it, the case 5 comes on the river.  I am out, he doubled up and went on to win the 12k WSOP package by winning that final table, the others refused to get into a pot with him, and he just dominated the table.  That is my most expensive bad beat ever.

Bad beat 2 Live cash nlhe at 5/10 stakes, that is dollars not cents, on a boat out of Mayport Fla (sun cruise i think).  Captain came over intercom, last hand of the night, I have a decent stack (around 3k and some change) I am in late possition, look down have wired 8s.  The pot is raised to 30 by utg, he has 3 callers, so I call (I am cut off) The button calls. (bb calls, lb folds) There is roughly 215 in the pot minus rake, flop comes 2-5-8 rainbow.  Bb checks, original raiser bets out 200, he gets a caller, folds the rest of way to me, I smooth call, button raises (he has been aggressive all night and has a h**l of a stack, I am covered by him) his raise is around 200 more, one other calls, I raise it half my stack by now (I figure I am against an over pair, I don't want button staying in) he pushes all in I call with top set, pot now over 7k.  Button shows Q/Q to my set of 8s, turn blank....river Q.  (I don't remeber whether bb called I know the pot was closer to 8k) I just remember that Q hitting and me uttering a rather profain word (not dirrected at the winner, but to the poker gods).  While preflop he had best hand, on flop, when the money was in, I had the best hand...so I reckon that qualifies for a bad bet.  

That is not to say that I haven't put bad beats on people before 2/4 in bb unraised and hit quad 4s on turn against a sneaky player not raising with big pp.  I reckon that is what makes poker fun.  One other semi bad beat...I had J/J with a flop of j-q-j, turn blank river q....bad guy was holding q-q but it was in a limit 5/10 game so didn't loose too much. I did win the bad beat jack pot though so I didn't complain.