Who has a bad beat hold'em story?

Question

I have been having a terrible run. Lots of bad beats and coolers. I thought it might help to hear other people's bad beats.

My latest and most memorable...

I was 6th in a 45 player sit and go down to the last seventeen people. I woke up to pocket Aces, Ah Ac,

I bet 3 and a half times the big blind pre-flop and ended up heads up with a guy who barely had me covered in chips.

The flop comes down, Ad, 3s, 9c

I'm golden, I have the nuts. He was early so he bets into me the pot, I raise double the pot, he raises back at me all in.

I'm practically gloating now as I call him.

He has As,Ks - normally a great hand, but I have his hand dominated.

the turn 6s

a little worried, but the odds are so against him striking a flush on the same hand I flopped trip Aces.

None the less, you know, the river card was the Js.

This happened more than 24 hours ago, I am still having a hard time swallowing it. I should have doubled through him on that hand and become the chip leader. Ah well.

Answer 1

I am playing spread limit Texas Hold'em ($3-100).  I have $115 in front of me.  There are two limpers in front of me and I am in the small blind with JJ.  I raise to $15 and get two callers .  The flop is 9 7  2.  Before I act the last player says all in.  The dealer corrects the action and allows me to act.  Since I think I have the best hand I bet $100 (all-in).  The other player folds and the person who acted out of turn calls $100.  

He has 6 4.  The turn is a 3 and the river is a 5, so he wins the $245 with a straight.

Answer 2

Poker is a game of odds, and odds says it will happen at times. Just let it go. Variance happens. Just play correctly, can't win them all.

Answer 3

In a tournament, I'm dealt KK UTG.  I raise about 5x bb, everyone folds, the button reraises the pot, the blinds fold, I reraise him all in.  He turns over the other KK.  (You can see where this is going...)

Yep, the board four-flushes on the river.  Fortunately I've got the suited K.  I've never felt so bad about winning a hand.  I actually asked the tournament director if we could split the pot but he said we had to follow the tournament rules.

It could've been worse...it could've been me!

Answer 4

lol i thought my beat was badd..

Answer 5

The counterfit hand I think has got to be the worst. It's happened to me quite a few times and this is just a memorable example...

I had pocket 5's, flop is 7 5 7. I check the full house, guy puts me all in. I call. He has Ace King, yes Ace King, absolutly nothing.

Turn is a 7. River kicks me in the nads with another 7.

Putting the four of a kind on the board and counterfiting my boat. I now have 7 7 7 7 5 and he has the winner with 7 7 7 7 Ace. And I got knocked out.

Those are fun.

Answer 6

you know anyone who plays poker will have bad beats ive so many i cant count 90% of the time im ahead when it comes to all in but bad luck hits and i lose my most memorable one was when i had a set and the guy hit quads on the river i had KK in my hand he had JJ he bet only double the blinds so i slow played we both hit a set on flop we went all in of course we bet back at each other until i finally pushed the flop K J 10 the turn came 3 then the river the miracle J i was so upset over that but what can u do i lost the pot and went out

Answer 7

That is a really bad beat.

Everyone who has played for any length of time has had bad beats. You just have to accept that it's just part of the game, and move on. If you dwell on it, it will harm your play.

Answer 8

You know, if it weren't for bad beats, what would us poker players gripe about?  My most recent bad beat occurred yesterday in the Fulltilt million dollar sunday tournament.  Still early in the tournament (relatively) I was a couple of thousand above average.  I have this maniac at the table who has three moves, call, all-in or fold.  I was in cut off (unfortunately maniac has possition on me, he had the button).  I end up with 7/7, I limp, there were a couple of limpers ahead of me.  Maniac limps too.  Flop comes 2/3/7 rainbow, I think whoopee!!! Action checks to me, I check, you guessed it, maniac all in (he has me covered by just a few hundred) folds back around to me, and I think, "well, I am ahead now so"... I call.  Cards show, he has 6/6, I am thinking I am about to double up and go on to a healthy cash (I have almost always cashed good in these big tournaments when I have that ammount of chips at this stage).  Well, stupid me doesn't think backdoor straight, and guess what comes, 5 is the turn, and 4 is the river, I didn't even see it until I got the little, "you finished...place in the tournament". Well, I was durn near fit to be tied.  I watched for a little while, and saw his all ins squander the chips he took from me, and he didn't last another 35 minutes (with all the chips he had he still used the call, fold or all in method).  The entry fee for the tournament was 500 + the vig, I won the seat in a satelitte, so I wasn't out that much but, still, ..... So there, one more of a trillion bad beat stories that I have, but, you know, I have put some on others myself with a reckless play or two...somehow, when I do it, I like to think of it as brilliant play.