Worst play you've ever lost to in a home game...

[jj_frap]

Note: This isn't the worst beat you've taken: It's the worst-played hand you've ever lost to.

I was playing a maniac and a few LPers at my favourite pub.

I had been playing tight the entire game (although it was still only the early mid game) and could barely catch anything playable (the usual mix of fair hands from bad position and rotten hands from good position) until I was dealt AA from UTG. I raise 4 x BB, and Maniac re-raises me all-in.

Everybody but me mucks, and he turns over A2o.

My laughter turns into a disgusted cringe as he hits trip deuces on the river.

In my home tourney I've been taken out by the same guy 3 out of 4 tourneys. Very first tournament we're down to 8 and Mr. LAG and I share about 1/2 the chips in play with him outchipping me slightly. He's UTG to my BB and raises about 4BB's, folds to me and I look down and see AA. I min re-raise thinking he'll come over the top and he insta-jams. I of course call and he flips over Q4off, oops. He pairs his Q on the flop but rivers the flush with his 4 to knock me out. I threw up on my new poker table. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Make this short and sweet. I was delt a QQ, got QKK on the flop. Johhny Blow all in with JJ. I call, came J and river J. Never seen it before or since. Game was clean.

[jj_frap]

Here's an honourable mention:

I'm dealt TT and raise to 5 x BB.

I get FOUR (!) callers.

Jxx rainbow shows up on the flop. I bet 2/3 of the pot and get two callers.

K comes up on the turn and I end up mucking my hand to heavy action.

A 6 of the same suit as the K and the J shows up on the river, and some fishtard who called my raise with T2s takes the pot.

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and some fishtard....

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haha, fishtard. vnh, gg. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[MookieBlaylock]

I dont know if this is the worst play or just my worst beat, but here goes.

I have Q 5 off in the BB. Flop comes 10 5 5. Now my hand doent look so bad after all. I check into the "new guy" at our game. He bets and I re-raise. Turn comes Q. Again I check, he raises and I re-raise. Now the guy is getting pissed off and talking sh*t. I had already put the guy on a 10, but now he is telling me he need another 10 so he can "knock the check raising crap off". To make a long story short (too late) the river is a 10 giving him a higher boat... The bad thing was the guy thought he had actually outplayed me by spiking the 10 on the river.

[jj_frap]

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and some fishtard....

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haha, fishtard. vnh, gg. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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But dey were s00ted!

[Precept2]

I know I'm breaking the trend, but here's the worst hand I ever played and won.

To preface, I rarely ever suck-out on anyone, because I know not to get my money in when I need a lot of help (unlike the idiots I play with).

We're down to three in a 14 man tourney, and there's me, a chump, and a solid player who shows AK more than anyone I've ever seen.

I'm BB, chump is shortstacked in SB, and solid player is on Button (he's got me covered by a little). He raises to 3.5BB and I call with 22. Flop comes 457 and since I had put him on AK, I push all in. He calls with JJ. I catch my 2 on the turn and go on to win $150.

[roxtar]

This happened to me tonight.... I usually am not a tilty player, I can take a beat but this one had my blood boiling.


Blinds are 200/400, 5 left in a 10 man tourney. I'm about 3rd in chips with ~3700
me (button): 33
1 call
I limp
SB completes, BB checks (pot is 800)
flop: 366
3 checks, I bet 500
2 folds and the guy in middle position comes over the top. I call so quickly I almost broke my hand trying to get my chips into the middle.

He shows J6

Turn is K
River is K giving him 6's full of kings to beat my 3's full of k's.:o

This about crippled me and I was the next to bust out.

my friend wanted me to show him how to play poker. we played for money here. i knew he'd just go all in every time, so i called when i had QQ, he hit a straight and i lost my $20. he didn't even know until i pointed it out to him.

This play didn't happen to me but happened at a tournament I had organized. 12 people left out of 18 starting. One friend across the table raises with AA, 3 callers. Flop comes AJ2. Player to my left bets, one caller, then original raiser goes all in. Player to my left calls him with 36o. Turn 5, river 4.

A few hands later he knocks me out with a river flush and later goes on to win the tournament. Some days you can do nothing wrong apparently...

[Shibby]

I wasn't involved in this hand, but it was with the same group of players that I normally play with. I couldn't give you stack numbers or blinds or anything of that nature, but it's a four-handed raised pot PF, and the flop comes down KQJ. The initial PFR jams it with 77... cause he's an idiot, but I digress. Second to act rejams with KQ, third to act is looking all incredulous cause he flopped a set of jacks... he calls, and the fourth to act guy is like.. I guess I'll have to avoid the redraws and calls with A10.

Running sevens!

[Sand]

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This happened to me tonight.... I usually am not a tilty player, I can take a beat but this one had my blood boiling.


Blinds are 200/400, 5 left in a 10 man tourney. I'm about 3rd in chips with ~3700
me (button): 33
1 call
I limp
SB completes, BB checks (pot is 800)
flop: 366
3 checks, I bet 500
2 folds and the guy in middle position comes over the top. I call so quickly I almost broke my hand trying to get my chips into the middle.

He shows J6

Turn is K
River is K giving him 6's full of kings to beat my 3's full of k's.:o

This about crippled me and I was the next to bust out.

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Not nearly so bad a beat as you may think. After the flop you are only a 4:1 favorite. This hand is deceptive - you think you are a lock, but this is not so.

On the other hand the original poster AA vs. A2 was a ~15:1 favorite and the QQ vs. JJ guy was a 650:1 favorite.

[paul0503]

sweet!! another bad beat story.....

Oh, man, I've got a doozy. Also dealt AA in MP (five-handed NLH tourney), I raise 3X BB, cut-off (who is very loose and known as an absolute fish) calls, and button (LAG) does, too. Blinds fold. I'm fairly short-stacked, so when the flop comes low cards and two hearts, I go all-in to protect my hand, hoping no one hit a set.

Cut-off also goes all-in, and the button does, too. We all flip, and my aces are ahead against the cut-off's pocket eights and the button's lousy 8h5h draw. Better still, the button has one of the cut-off's eights!

Blank on the turn, but take a guess at what hits the river... Yep, the case eight to knock me out. This was about four or five months ago, and I still remember this hand. I usually don't get rattled, but this one had me steamed.

Don't get pissed. You WANT him thinking he outplayed you, because now he'll make that same mistake, not figuring out that he'll hit it only a few % of the time.

[ChuckyB]

Here's the worst play I ever made and won.

6-handed. I have A7o in middle position so I raise 5xBB. One caller by a semi-loose, solid player.

Flop comes 544. He's short-stacked so I bet about 2/3 of his stack. He raises all in. I call (in all it was about half my stack.)

I turn over A7, no longer believing I had the best hand. He showed 54 for the flopped full house.

Turn: 7

River: 7

I win with a bigger full house.

Ac 7d-----6------0.61%
4c 5d----984-----99.39%

This one is not by any means the worst one I've ever seen, but since it happened to me, and it happened at our most recent monthly game, it jumps to the top of my most memorable list.

Its late at night at our monthly game (very low stakes, mostly for fun), and there's only 4 of us left to strike up a game, so we decide to play one more, winner take all. We play tournament style, $5 buy-in, blinds start at 25/50 and double every 15 minutes. I should easily steamroll the thing, as the other 3 guys are average players at best, and are barely paying attention, so I've practically got the $20 in my pocket. A little ways in, the blinds are 50/100, and I get dealt KK in the BB. The small blind limps and I raise it $300. The small blind calls me. This guy is known for being downright scary, because he knows what he's doing, but still makes some of the dumbest moves you could ever see, and cashes on 'em. He'll win one tourney and be out first the next. You just never know what 2 cards he's holding and what the hell he's trying to do.

So anyway, he calls my raise with a "ohhh...I've GOTTA call", and the flop brings blank-A-J. We check the flop, and the turn is a Q. He bets $400 and I already know I'm beat, but at this point its no longer about the $20, its about seeing what kind of garbage he called my 3xBB raise with. Since $400 is about half my remaining stack, I just put the rest all-in in the interest of seeing this BS and going home, and he calls.

He had held on to A 4 off, and hit his A on the flop. I try not to get mad over this low stakes game where the camraderie is more important than the poker, but that kinda BS just plain pisses me off.

Another legendary story from our poker nights is when my little brother was at his 2nd one, and tried to fold his hand in the big blind. Someone at the table told him he could hold on to it and check, so he did. By the end of the hand he had taken a guy out when his 9 2 flopped a boat.

[Kaeser]

Maybe I'm just not seeing it but what's wrong with calling a 3x BB raise with A-4 in a 4-handed game when it's small blind/big blind. Would you fold this playing heads-up? What were the relative stacks/blinds at when this happened?

[smoore]

One time I was playing 6-handed and this guy in MP 5x's it. I call with my 54 in position against him because I'm a semi-loose, solid player. The flop comes 544 so I decide to slow play it... this guy bets fully TWO THIRDS of my stack so what the hell, I sure can't call... I push allin. He calls me and manages to hit his A7o with runner runner SEVENS.

dammit.


















just kidding /images/graemlins/laugh.gif, here's my real badbeat story:

A5o limp-reraises my 4x UTG with at least 25x behind, I weigh the odds and push my last 12x with JJ, he's the only caller... flop 234 rainbow, my jacket was on and I was swilling the last of my drink before the river hit.

"good game, all... cya next week"

[KenProspero]

Bad Play questions are tough to evaluate.

I remember one game where I had been getting no cards, and my brother had basically been knocking the crap out of my stack all night.

On one hand, he mini-raised (which I took as weakness based on his play that evening) and I decided to make a stone cold all-in bluff (with something like 8-4o), which he immediately called and flipped over his pair of kings.

To make a long story short -- I drew 4 to the flush and doubled up.

Now, a hand like this -- "My KK got beat by 8-4 hitting 4 to the flush" could easily make this thread of worst play in a home game. However, under this situation, it was really just a bad read in a loose game (with bragging rights much more important than the minimal stakes we were playing for), and I got incredibly lucky.

So, I really don't think you can say any one hand is that horrible, absent context.

[Black Aces 518]

I agree that sometimes it's subjective, and I think people making raises with crap are much harder to ridicule than those calling with crap.

Worst call I've ever seen: 9 person home tourney, my brother is on the button and raises to 4xBB, both blinds call. SB bets out pot, BB calls, my brother goes allin, both players call.

The flop is A-T-2 rainbow. My brother has AT, SB has T2, BB has Q5 offsuit. BB wasn't shortstacked, and neither were either of the other two players. BB didn't win, but if it had come 55 or QQ or JK or 34, that would have been the worst play to win that I can imagine.

[Padster]

Not a beat or bad play as such but funny hand.

4 ppl home game $20 tournie, winner takes all. 2 good players (me and dealer), 2 donators.

First hand it ends up all in on a low rainbow flop with QQ vs KK vs AA. AA holds up (I was KK).

Dealer was the other good player, leaving him heads up after 1 hand with a 3-1 chip deficit to overcome vs a muppet.
Interestingly dealer's T2 would have won the hand but would have probably lost him the use of his legs!!

Needless to say the dealer went on to win it.

Straight game btw.

[Tom Bayes]

This hand didn't happen to me, but it was astounding. This was a low-stakes home NLHE tournament (7 players) last weekend. The buy-in is $5 and players can make 2 rebuys.

I don't remember the exact stack sizes, but we were deep enough that it was not "push-n-pray" time yet.

We see a flop with Loose Calling Station Guy and Older Guy involved in the hand. Flop comes AK2 with one diamond (the King). Older Guy goes all-in. Loose guy thinks for a while and calls off most of his stack. Older Guy shows AK for top two pair, Loose Guy shows T3 of diamonds. Wow, a total donk call. Turn is a 4 of diamonds, giving Loose Guy a straight draw and flush draw. He makes both by catching the 5 of diamonds on the river and a REBUY! is made by Older Guy.

We were hassling Loose Guy about this hand the next day. His justification was that he put Older Guy on a bluff (Older Guy had been caught bluffing earlier).

I have taken a few of my home game buddies to poker rooms but since Loose Guy is my friend, I will never take him with me to a B&M poker room.

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Maybe I'm just not seeing it but what's wrong with calling a 3x BB raise with A-4 in a 4-handed game when it's small blind/big blind. Would you fold this playing heads-up? What were the relative stacks/blinds at when this happened?

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The blinds were 50/100, and the stack sizes were probably still right around 1500 apiece. I had a little more than 1500 and was left with 75 after the hand, but not many chips had moved, as it was only level II of our tourney. We were about 20 minutes in. SB completes, and I raise the 200 pot to 500, which he needs to put in 300 to call.

I can see your point, but I was giving him about 1.7 to 1 odds on his call when he needed 2 to 1, yes? Straight up mathematically speaking, it seems like a mistake, although I guess not a huge one, and obviously one that a loose/agressive player is willing to make. But it seems to me that for so early in the tourney, A 4 off is garbage, and you've gotta think your only hope is hitting one of the remaining three aces (if even that) or 2 pair. Of course the straight or 4-card flush are possibilities, but they're exremely minute.

If I'm missing something, by all means let me know. I'm still learning.

[2+2 wannabe]

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One time I was playing 6-handed and this guy in MP 5x's it. I call with my 54 in position against him because I'm a semi-loose, solid player. The flop comes 544 so I decide to slow play it... this guy bets fully TWO THIRDS of my stack so what the hell, I sure can't call... I push allin. He calls me and manages to hit his A7o with runner runner SEVENS.

dammit.

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vvnh

[Kaeser]

Your talking about the odds he needed to call if he knew what your hand was. This is a 4 player tournament so raising standards have to be more liberal then in a full ring game and it down to just SB/BB so it's effectively heads-up for the hand. Unless your raising standards from the BB in this situation are only pairs and big aces then he probably figured there was a good chance he had the best hand.

When you checked behind him on the flop he figured you didn't have an ace and after betting 400 on the turn and being raised all-in he had only to call 700 to win a pot of 1800 chips which is 2.5 to 1 on his call. I'm sure if he's as wild and loose as you say then that's more then enough.

I'm not saying this guy hasn't put some terrible beats on you in the past but I don't see anything out of line with his play on this hand.

[DZgroundhog]

My favorites are when people misread the board and still come out on top...

I check-raise my fishy friend all-in on the turn with 97o on a rainbow board of 8865 and he immediately calls with his 65o for "two pair: sixes and fives." "No, that's eights and sixes with a five kicker." Oops. Good thing he caught a 5 on the river to fill up.

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Your talking about the odds he needed to call if he knew what your hand was. This is a 4 player tournament so raising standards have to be more liberal then in a full ring game and it down to just SB/BB so it's effectively heads-up for the hand. Unless your raising standards from the BB in this situation are only pairs and big aces then he probably figured there was a good chance he had the best hand.

When you checked behind him on the flop he figured you didn't have an ace and after betting 400 on the turn and being raised all-in he had only to call 700 to win a pot of 1800 chips which is 2.5 to 1 on his call. I'm sure if he's as wild and loose as you say then that's more then enough.

I'm not saying this guy hasn't put some terrible beats on you in the past but I don't see anything out of line with his play on this hand.

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Very good points. Thanks for your insight.

I agree that past the preflop call all his moves were justified. I served it right up to him, and bailed on the hand myself because I was so disgusted.

I assure you, though, that he wasn't smart enough to even try and figure out what I was raising with. He just spite-called with what he knew was a garbage hand, hoping to do exactly what he did.

Maybe I'm just disgusted because he always makes stupid sh*t marginal plays like this and seems to come out on top.

We play tomorrow night. I'll see to it he doesn't beat me again and all will be well. /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Slacker]

This play astounded me, and caused me to change my style for the night (went on to with the 11 person tourney).

I had KJc on the button, so I raised 3bb before the flop. All fold except one caller.

Flop comes TcQcx so I've got an open ended straight draw and a flush draw. He checks, so I bet about 1.5 times the pot, hoping to just take it down there. He calls.

Turn card is a blank, he checks again, so I make one more attempt at a semi-bluff, betting 2x the pot. He calls. River was another blank.

He checks, I check.

He's got pocket 8's.

After seeing me bet pre-flop, make fairly large bets on a flop with two overcards and a turn with a blank, he calls me to the showdown...with pocket 8's. How could he have thought they'd hold up? Bottom line: he didn't think. He would have played those to the end no matter what I bet.

My lesson: Screw any sort of bluffing or sizing my bets to drive people out of the hand. I just limped in on good and great hands and hoped to connect on the flop (almost nobody but me was raising pre-flop). If I did connect, I bet 'em for value. I had crap cards for a long time, but when I started to connect, I cleaned up.