Insane Poker Hands... (1 Viewer)

[guinness]

Last night at the local card room a hand unfolded that I've never seen before. Not a straight flush vs straight flush or other bad beat jackpot type hands, not a bad beat, but rather an interesting hand that got everyone jumping.

Hero:
Villain:

All in preflop (Effective stacks $150 at a 1/2 table).

Board:

Whoa! I've seen pockets vs same pockets, I've seen quads on the board, but both together was pretty nutty.

The most insane bad beat I've ever read about was the 2004 WSOP main event:

Hero: 99
Villain: 55

Board comes out 55x. Hero jams, Villain snaps. Turn River 9-9. Ruh Roh.

$1 Million buy-in One Drop, this is why people give up gambling, especially when its against a guy who is richer than you will ever be:

For PLO, obvs this hand comes to mind when Robl plays a hand horribly bad but horseshoe in ass comes to the rescue:

 

[jbutler]

Robl/Antonius is greatest of all time ainec, but Robl was involved in another great one as well.

The best part is obv Timoshenko's face when the cards are turned up and Robl's complete nonchalance. I'm in Timoshenko's place all the time when I play higher than normal and watch giant (for me) PLO hands between players who don't care that they just lost a $8k pot after getting it in with the stone nuts versus a bare flush draw.

My own version of a FML hand occurred this weekend (bad beat story trigger warning). $5/5 PLO i have AKK9 with clubs. Gets 3-bet pre and flop goes 3 ways. Flop K92cc. I get my $1400 stack all in versus another guy. We run it twice and both times the turn comes a red Q or J and I never improve on the river and he turns over a wrap to scoop. Vomit.

Another version of a FML hand I was in - I made the straight flush on the river and raised a guy when we were both super deep and he just flatted with the nut flush. Playing against good players sucks.

EDIT:

And oh yeah this classic from old school HSP.

 

[manamongkids]

 

[guinness]

Not too crazy and the video quality is meh but the entertainment value always delivers.

Edit: Reminder that JRB had just come off a near-bracelet win at the same WSOP. He had over half the chips in play at a final table but ended up 2nd, avoiding his first bracelet.

 

[jbutler]

JRB lives it for sure. There's a great picture of him on his twitter from when he bought some big penthouse but went broke again before he could furnish it. So he's literally sleeping on some shitty twin bed on a cement floor with cinder block walls lol.

EDIT: Found it. So great.

 

[Ben]

I once won a (very small) tourney with AKo vs JJ all-in pre on the final hand. Flop J-4-4 and I push the chips. Turn 4, river 4. Ace high scoops. My poor opponent was a poker noob and did not understand what had just happened. Had to be explained like 4 times before it sank in. I still feel pretty bad about that one.

 

[Ronoh]

No idea who the celebrity was and not sure of the year (2005 or 6 I think), WSOPME the flop came ATT with the celebrity holding AT and was up against AA. 90% sure it was the very first hand of the tournament and happened at a TV table.

 

[abby99]

No idea who the celebrity was and not sure of the year (2005 or 6 I think), WSOPME the flop came ATT with the celebrity holding AT and was up against AA. 90% sure it was the very first hand of the tournament and happened at a TV table.

That was Oliver Hudson and Sammy Farha.

 

[detroitdad]

@mike32 's house we had a straight flush over quads for a pretty big pot in a .25/.50 cash game.

 

[guinness]

No idea who the celebrity was and not sure of the year (2005 or 6 I think), WSOPME the flop came ATT with the celebrity holding AT and was up against AA. 90% sure it was the very first hand of the tournament and happened at a TV table.

 

[Ronoh]

Damn, didn't even get the cards right

 

[guinness]

Damn, didn't even get the cards right

Meh, close enough. I'm not a description nit.

 

[Trihonda]

I once won a (very small) tourney with AKo vs JJ all-in pre on the final hand. Flop J-4-4 and I push the chips. Turn 4, river 4. Ace high scoops. My poor opponent was a poker noob and did not understand what had just happened. Had to be explained like 4 times before it sank in. I still feel pretty bad about that one.

This very thing happened to me, in a casino cash game, but the hand played out brutally for me...

Me sitting on the button w/ $280. Playing live 1/2.

Table limps to me and I look down at . I bump it to $20, and get two callers ( along w/ villain in MP).

Flop comes . Boom!

Villain bets $20, I bump it to $60. Other guy folds, Villain calls. $180 in the pot.

I'm pretty sure the villain doesn't have a deuce (due to his calling a $20 bet pre).

Turn is a , and I'm praying the villain has an overpair and thinks his boat is good. Villain checks to me, seems interested, and I shove my last $200 (pot sized bet).

Villain tank calls the $200, and flips over . Huh? He doesn't even have a boat, just Ace high? Hell ya!

River is a and I almost puked on the table... as $600 in chips go floating to the villain...

 

[ACE'S FULL]

Great way to light $10K on fire.

 

[abby99]

@Trihonda - that was gross! That hand reminded me of a tournament hand from around eight years ago. I don't recall the exact positions or stack sizes except that it was relatively early in a deep-stack home-game tournament. I have AA and got into a pre-flop raising war with the guy to my immediate left. One player on my right folded after the second raise. We were deep and reraising stopped with about a quarter of our stacks in the middle.

Flop: 922. The two of us get it all in (he wouldn't get into a pre-flop raising war with a deuce, right?).
Turn: 2
River: 2 (Does this only happens with deuces?)

I said I have an ace, showing both cards but not calling my entire hand (quad deuces with an ace).
He responded, but I have pocket kings. They beat an ace. He repeated that at least two more times -- But I have pocket kings! Couldn't get over the fact that he busted out of the tournament with pocket kings, even though he was behind all the way.

The woman who folded during our raising war had 99 and would have flopped a boat. We'll never know whether she could have gotten either me or Mr. KK to fold before the river, but in the end her fold turned out well for her.

And "they" say that we only remember the bad beats we've taken.

 

[Chicken Rob]

This very thing happened to me, in a casino cash game, but the hand played out brutally for me...

Me sitting on the button w/ $280. Playing live 1/2.

Table limps to me and I look down at . I bump it to $20, and get two callers ( along w/ villain in MP).

Flop comes . Boom!

Villain bets $20, I bump it to $60. Other guy folds, Villain calls. $180 in the pot.

I'm pretty sure the villain doesn't have a deuce (due to his calling a $20 bet pre).

Turn is a , and I'm praying the villain has an overpair and thinks his boat is good. Villain checks to me, seems interested, and I shove my last $200 (pot sized bet).

Villain tank calls the $200, and flips over . Huh? He doesn't even have a boat, just Ace high? Hell ya!

River is a and I almost puked on the table... as $600 in chips go floating to the villain...

I was playing 1/2 NLHE at mirage. Effective stacks were 400. Got it all in pre with KK vs AK. Flop was JJ6 turn J. River J. 800 slides to villain.

Oh well.

 

[Trihonda]

I was playing 1/2 NLHE at mirage. Effective stacks were 400. Got it all in pre with KK vs AK. Flop was JJ6 turn J. River J. 800 slides to villain.

Oh well.

AIPF I would understand possibly more... But to call $200 with one card left, and only A high? That was the killer... lol

Well, I might have been more sensitive to losing with Jacks because 2 hours earlier, I busted the $1,100 MSPT tourney with pocket jacks. Only got all my chips in the middle when I hit the nut set on the flop. The villain calls off a 95% of his remaining chips on a GS straight draw, which he hits... of course.

 

[Kyle]

This very thing happened to me, in a casino cash game, but the hand played out brutally for me...

Me sitting on the button w/ $280. Playing live 1/2.

Table limps to me and I look down at . I bump it to $20, and get two callers ( along w/ villain in MP).

Flop comes . Boom!

Villain bets $20, I bump it to $60. Other guy folds, Villain calls. $180 in the pot.

I'm pretty sure the villain doesn't have a deuce (due to his calling a $20 bet pre).

Turn is a , and I'm praying the villain has an overpair and thinks his boat is good. Villain checks to me, seems interested, and I shove my last $200 (pot sized bet).

Villain tank calls the $200, and flips over . Huh? He doesn't even have a boat, just Ace high? Hell ya!

River is a and I almost puked on the table... as $600 in chips go floating to the villain...

Wow, I feel for you on that one.

 

[krafticus]

Mine wasn't in a casino, just a $.25/$.50 home game. I had been playing and running well. I had run my $100 buy in up to about 600. I'm the BB with AQcc and raise to $3 or $4. I get 3 callers. Flop comes J97cc. I checked, villain leads out for $20. I flat. Turn is a brick, he leads out for $70 with about 180 behind. I think, and shove. He snap calls with 10 6cc. Says he didn't think I had a flush.

At this point, the table states he has an out...1 out. Dealer (kirchhausen here) slow rolls the river, and groans as he turns over the 8c.

I went on uber tilt, ran into Chippy's straight flush a few hands later, and was busto and on life tilt for a while.

Mark

 

[Chicken Rob]

Mine wasn't in a casino, just a $.25/$.50 home game. I had been playing and running well. I had run my $100 buy in up to about 600. I'm the BB with ACCENTURE and raise to $3 or $4. I get 3 callers. Flop comes J97cc. I checked, villain leads out for $20. I flat. Turn is a brick, he leads out for $70 with about 180 behind. I think, and shove. He snap calls with 10 6cc. Says he didn't think I had a flush.

At this point, the table states he has an out...1 out. Dealer (kirchhausen here) slow rolls the river, and groans as he turns over the 8c.

I went on uber tilt, ran into Chippy's straight flush a few hands later, and was busto and on life tilt for a while.

Mark

I hate when my ACCENTURE gets run over like that. So gross.

 

[krafticus]

Darn autocorrect...

 

[Anthony Martino]

Playing limit O8 at the Hard Rock in Tampa and I saw two guys get involved in a huge pot, one had 66xx, the other had JJxx.

Flop was J6x, turn a 6, river a J. So quad over quads, suck and resuck. Guy who lost with quad 6's took it like a fucking champ too, didn't even flinch, no whining, nothing. Then again, maybe he was shell-shocked, I dunno. Bummer was the qualifier for the BBJ (capped at 10K unfortunately) was losing with quad J's or better, so he didn't even get a piece of that pie to make it all worthwhile.

 

[bergs]

Playing limit O8 at the Hard Rock in Tampa and I saw two guys get involved in a huge pot, one had 66xx, the other had JJxx.

Flop was J6x, turn a 6, river a J. So quad over quads, suck and resuck. Guy who lost with quad 6's took it like a fucking champ too, didn't even flinch, no whining, nothing. Then again, maybe he was shell-shocked, I dunno. Bummer was the qualifier for the BBJ (capped at 10K unfortunately) was losing with quad J's or better, so he didn't even get a piece of that pie to make it all worthwhile.

Losing with quad jacks and only getting 10K. Fuck that. That casino must be a shithole.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Losing with quad jacks and only getting 10K. Fuck that. That casino must be a shithole.

The O8 bbj is capped at 10k so loser gets 5k. They also cap hold em bbj at 50k. The Semiboles dont have to compete with any nearby casinos in tampa so they pretty much suck for promos.

At least they've got 50 tables

 

[bergs]

So they stop taking a drop for the BBJ once it maxes, or does that go into the casino coffers?

 

[jja412]

Am I the only one who hates these stories? Not here on the forums, I actually love reading these threads. I hate them when someone TELLS them to me. As soon as they something that clues me in to it being a bad beat story, my eyes glaze over and I just nod my head at opportune times. But it looks like I'm paying attention.

 

[manamongkids]

Am I the only one who hates these stories? Not here on the forums, I actually love reading these threads. I hate them when someone TELLS them to me. As soon as they something that clues me in to it being a bad beat story, my eyes glaze over and I just nod my head at opportune times. But it looks like I'm paying attention.

Yup, its like hearing about someones fantasy football teams, or someones kids for that matter

 

[jja412]

I actually think it's strange that I am totally into reading through this whole thread, but someone I know sitting right in front of me starts into a story like these, and I'm tuned out.

 

[Anthony Martino]

So they stop taking a drop for the BBJ once it maxes, or does that go into the casino coffers?

There are rumors some of it vanishes. They take jackpot drop money and put it into other promos (high hand, hot seat, hot table, etc)

Last year they were aearding $3,500 seats into the WPT main at their Hollywood casino hours away (and it was a rebuy event)

So they took cash player contributions to pad the prize pool guarantee in a tourney at a completely different property which upset the regs. Especially since they only gave you 24 hours to transfer\sell it so you had to hope you could find someone if you didn't want to play it.

A little old lady in the 3\6 omaha game won a seat and stayed at the casino almost a full 24 hrs to find a buyer

 

[bergs]

Wow (crosses that property off the list)