Dream Hand at the Final Table Stars 10R last night

[binions]

914 entrants - down to 8 players. I have 400,000 chips, which is 6th. Blinds are 20K-40K.

I am in the big blind. Early position raises to $160K. He has me covered.

I wake up to Ac Ad. Go all in. Raiser calls. Shows Ah Kd.

Flop comes Kc 5c 3c. Even with the K flop, I am well ahead, with a flush + ace redraw if he hits 2 outer on 4th street.

Turn comes Kh!

River is a blank.

I finish 8th and win $760. He goes on to win the tournament and $8K.

Can't ask for a much better situation at a final table. But the dream turned into a nightmare. That's poker.

[schwza]

bad beat story said what?

seriously though, that's a bummer.

[binions]

As a friend of mine aptly put it, bad beat stories never start out, "I had the Jack-eight of clubs, and . . ."

[schwza]

and rarely end with "and then i spiked my 2-outer to bust him for all his chips."

[ZootMurph]

If it helps you any, I had Aces beaten 3 times in that tourney, AFTER the buyin period. Once by tens, once by J3o (caught someone trying to steal, or should I say, he caught me), and once by KQs.

It wasn't a pretty night.

[Ian J]

At about 1:30 a.m. PST last night I get a call from my best friend who tells me he just moved in on a guy w/ AK and ran into AA and how he went on to hit a 2 outer on the guy and go on to win the tournament. Small world. He's also a lurker here.

[ugaistheteam]

Ouch, same guy, think his name was chuckaluck, called my KK allin with 22 and rivered a 2 on me...

[binions]

The player I am talking about was ChuckTheLuck. Is that your friend?

[binions]

ChuckTheLuck. That's the one.

Better known now as ChuckTheSuckout.

[Ian J]

Binions,

Yep. We're sitting here right now talking about the tournament. Like I said, small world. Nice job on the final table by the way. That's a tough task wading through all those people.

[Sam T.]

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As a friend of mine aptly put it, bad beat stories never start out, "I had the Jack-eight of clubs, and . . ."

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Fair enough, but does this count?

So there I was, in the Big Blind with Ten-5 (off-suit, of course). Limpers to me, I check.

Flop: TT5

Long story short, two of us end up with all our chips in the middle, and the SB turns over...Ten-5 (off suit), and we split.

If anyone wants to figure out the odds of this, I'm curious.

[binions]

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Fair enough, but does this count?

So there I was, in the Big Blind with Ten-5 (off-suit, of course). Limpers to me, I check.

Flop: TT5

Long story short, two of us end up with all our chips in the middle, and the SB turns over...Ten-5 (off suit), and we split.

If anyone wants to figure out the odds of this, I'm curious.

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If you have T5, there is three Ts and three 5s left out of 50 cards.

Total number of possible hands against you: 50*49/2*1 = 1225.

Total number of T5 hands = 3*3 = 9.

Chance another T5 is out against you if you have T5 = 9/1225 or 136.1:1.

Now, if two people have T5, the odds to flop TT5:

Total number of flops with other 48 cards = 48*47*46/3*2*1 = 17296.

Total number of TT5 flops with TT55 missing from deck = 2

Odds against 8,647:1

So, if you hold T5, the odds of 1) someone else holding T5, AND 2) the flop coming TT5 are

1,176,952.8:1

[familyteeth]

yes, chuckaluck,
last nite on the same table as uga
i saw chuckaluck hit 3 flush draws in a row, he was runnin pretty good,
good on ya binions nice finish, tough bump

[Charlie]

This is chucktheluck, i was pretty much pot committed. The hand before, I was reraised and I had assumed you were trying to push me around. Its a bad break and I know how it feels. Its happened to me many times.