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Posted: Fri, 01 Apr 2005, 5:37am Post subject: The worst bad beat
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Full House
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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I found the following article at http://www.ipfpoker.com/poker-strategy-articles/the-worst-bad-beat/877
and thought I would share it.
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The worst bad beat
My ageing poker pal Brazilian Eric who occasionally flies to Europe from South America in search of action once observed that poker wasn’t so much a game but an exercise in frustration control.
This was about 15 seconds after I had put him out of a hold’em tournament by playing my pocket jacks against his pocket queens – and of course a jack came on the board to give me a winning set.
He took it very calmly.
Not all players suffer bad beats (poker speak for very very unlucky) well and the worst I’ve seen happened to an architect pal of mine called George.
George had been running bad but retained sufficient optimism to sit down in his local pot limit omaha game (any two from four cards in the players hand combined with any three from five common cards on the table).
He had about £300 in front of him when he found himself holding Ah – Ad – Kh – Qd.
Now this was the sort of game where some of the players bumped up the betting on more or less anything just to make the pot bigger.
So George was not at all phased when his raise was re-raised.
He just called to see the flop and when it came Ad – Jh – 10h, he had trouble figuring how he could lose.
His ace-high straight was the “nuts” (unbeatable), if a heart fell he would have the nut flush, the only other flush available was in diamonds (and he had two of those) and he had three aces so if a pair came on board he would have an aces full house.
His problem seemed to him to be to keeping the other players in so he bet half the pot, which now stood at around £80. One somewhat loose player called and the fourth upcard was the 9c.
This changed nothing so when his opponent bet George went all in for the rest of his £300 and was happy to be called.
The fifth upcard was the 9s giving him an aces full house.
Sadly for him his opponent had called with a pair of 9s and had made four of a kind – at odds of not far short of 1000 to 1 against.
George took it quite well. He just looked like he was going to have a heart attack and didn’t play for two years. | |
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Posted: Sat, 02 Apr 2005, 4:31am Post subject:
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Full House
Joined: 12 Jan 2005
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Location: wearing the honors of honor and whatnot
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| how do they get 1000 to 1 against? odds are 1 in 44, no? |
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Posted: Sat, 02 Apr 2005, 6:55am Post subject:
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Full House
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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| Yeah Im not too sure about that either there is only 52 cards in a deck... |
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Posted: Sat, 02 Apr 2005, 9:46am Post subject:
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Flush
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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I'd be mad and want my money back. There's two A  in that deck. |
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Posted: Sat, 02 Apr 2005, 10:08am Post subject:
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Full House
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Haha didnt even spot that, nice one
Maybe thats why the odds are so high? |
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Posted: Sat, 02 Apr 2005, 10:29am Post subject:
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Full House
Joined: 23 May 2004
Posts: 611
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| Perhaps quads are 1000-1 preflop, i haven't checked mind |
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Posted: Mon, 04 Apr 2005, 4:00am Post subject:
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High Card
Joined: 15 Dec 2004
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| arkana wrote: | | Yeah Im not too sure about that either there is only 52 cards in a deck... |
I'm pretty sure he is talking about odds of losing that hand after the flop. Opponent needed two running nines to beat his hand. Funny punchline, but nothing new in that story...  |
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