CMP
07-12-2004, 04:38 PM
First, "the good kind" of bad beats -- at Harrah's on Friday night, I was there from about 11 to 3, and the jackpot was hit twice on 2 different $5-10 tables -- with the exact same hands! Both jackpots featured A-A-A-x-x on the board, and pocket TT for the "loser" and AJ for the winner. Strange.
Well, every game I found this weekend was EXCELLENT, so needless to say, the beats were spectacular.
Note: I started this post in the morning, but then stopped myself, because, who wants to hear about suckouts, right?
None of my friends will listen either, so I'm going to post them below in white -- read on at your own risk. Best of both worlds, I get to share 'em, and nobody has to read them if they don't want to...
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Memorable beat from my $5-10 table (not one of the jackpot tables, and I think they got off 7 $5-10 games Friday night): my KK went down to a board of Q-8-5, 4, 7 -- no, the guy didn't have the 6 for the straight, he had the 74, chasing the gutshot and winding up with 2 pair.
All weekend, all the draws were coming in against me. $5-10 at Harrahs -- flopped the flush, after my turn raise, it's me and one chaser, and the 4th of the suit falls giving A8o the winner. Trump Sunday in the $5-10/kill, on a kill pot, I limp w/QJs about 6-way action, flop top pair J-10-x,8, Q - wind up with top 2 and lose to a 1-card straight who took all the heat.
I moved down to the $3-6 kill, and finally flopped top set of Qs on a Q-5-7, 3, 6 and lost to K4o. I took it pretty quietly, but the guy to my right was going off - "See, raising here does no good, there's NO way you should lose that hand" and on and on.
How ironic later that I find AA utg in a kill pot and raise, only the killer and the BB, my former defender call. Flop A-x-x with nothing but a diamond draw, killer folds the turn, but BB calls all the way to catch a diamond on the river and win w/85d. He may have genuinely felt bad, especially after his previous rant. He didn't bet the river, but when I checked behind, he said "Yeah, I got you." He may have mumbled an apology later too, I didn't quite catch it.
Ah, no-foldem holdem.</font>
Well, every game I found this weekend was EXCELLENT, so needless to say, the beats were spectacular.
Note: I started this post in the morning, but then stopped myself, because, who wants to hear about suckouts, right?
None of my friends will listen either, so I'm going to post them below in white -- read on at your own risk. Best of both worlds, I get to share 'em, and nobody has to read them if they don't want to...
<font color="white">
Memorable beat from my $5-10 table (not one of the jackpot tables, and I think they got off 7 $5-10 games Friday night): my KK went down to a board of Q-8-5, 4, 7 -- no, the guy didn't have the 6 for the straight, he had the 74, chasing the gutshot and winding up with 2 pair.
All weekend, all the draws were coming in against me. $5-10 at Harrahs -- flopped the flush, after my turn raise, it's me and one chaser, and the 4th of the suit falls giving A8o the winner. Trump Sunday in the $5-10/kill, on a kill pot, I limp w/QJs about 6-way action, flop top pair J-10-x,8, Q - wind up with top 2 and lose to a 1-card straight who took all the heat.
I moved down to the $3-6 kill, and finally flopped top set of Qs on a Q-5-7, 3, 6 and lost to K4o. I took it pretty quietly, but the guy to my right was going off - "See, raising here does no good, there's NO way you should lose that hand" and on and on.
How ironic later that I find AA utg in a kill pot and raise, only the killer and the BB, my former defender call. Flop A-x-x with nothing but a diamond draw, killer folds the turn, but BB calls all the way to catch a diamond on the river and win w/85d. He may have genuinely felt bad, especially after his previous rant. He didn't bet the river, but when I checked behind, he said "Yeah, I got you." He may have mumbled an apology later too, I didn't quite catch it.
Ah, no-foldem holdem.</font>