Has anyone ever seen this craziness before?

[jwvdcw]

3 left in a tournament. I get A-A. Someone else gets K-K. The 3rd person gets Q-Q!!!

***** Hand History for Game 519700077 *****
600/1200 TourneyTexasHTGameTable (NL) (Tournament 3160322) - Sun Apr 11 23:47:51 EDT 2004
Table Table 11186 (Real Money) -- Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 1: a605296a (5145)
Seat 3: BobbyDallas (2430)
Seat 10: FestivusPole (2425)
BobbyDallas posts small blind (300)
FestivusPole posts big blind (600)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to a605296a [ As, Ah ]
a605296a raises (1200) to 1200
BobbyDallas raises (2130) to 2430
BobbyDallas is all-In.
FestivusPole calls (1825)
FestivusPole is all-In.
a605296a calls (1230)
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 4h, 5d, Js ]
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 6s ]
** Dealing River ** : [ 9s ]
Creating Main Pot with $7275 with FestivusPole
Creating Side Pot 1 with $10 with BobbyDallas
** Summary **
Main Pot: 7275 | Side Pot 1: 10 |
Board: [ 4h 5d Js 6s 9s ]
a605296a balance 10000, bet 2430, collected 7285, net +4855 [ As Ah ] [ a pair of aces -- As,Ah,Js,9s,6s ]
BobbyDallas balance 0, lost 2430 [ Kh Kc ] [ a pair of kings -- Kh,Kc,Js,9s,6s ]
FestivusPole balance 0, lost 2425 [ Qc Qh ] [ a pair of queens -- Qc,Qh,Js,9s,6s ]

[Daliman]

Never 3 handed. WSOP 2002 had that AA-JJ-TT 3 handed hand, but otherwise, methinks AAKKQQ 3 handed is just barely under a million to one.

[Guy McSucker]

Heh. Nice pot.

Yesterday at Party $50 NL there was a four-way pot which got checked all the way to the river. I was in the big blind holding J-9. Board read

5-6-7-10-8

so I bet a couple of dollars. Next player raised, then a flat call, then a reraise, I move in, so does everyone else, we all show J-9 and lose 75c in rake each.

Isn't it amazing what a selective sense of coincidence can create?

Guy.

[Bozeman]

Odds against exactly AA,KK,QQ

1413785 1/9:1

Odds against each hand being AA,KK,or QQ

1/[18*(12*8 + 1*12)*8/(52*51*50*49*48*47)] - 1=
52...47/(18*12*9*8)-1=942523 2/27:1

Not surprisingly, most of us haven't been in this situation. (I've played ~50000 three handed hands in tourneys)

Craig

[fat_nutz]

I'd wager heavily that all of these amazing coincidences lately have been happening at Party, because I've noticed and have heard comments from at least 3 other people that there seem to have been many more action-forcing hands lately than usual... I wonder if the Party folks are trying to scrounge up a tax payment or something (yes, I know they're not based in the US, just go with it).

[DKNY]

Same situation, AA vs KK vs QQ. But QQ on the pot catching a Q at the river.

[jedi]

[ QUOTE ]
I'd wager heavily that all of these amazing coincidences lately have been happening at Party, because I've noticed and have heard comments from at least 3 other people that there seem to have been many more action-forcing hands lately than usual... I wonder if the Party folks are trying to scrounge up a tax payment or something (yes, I know they're not based in the US, just go with it).

[/ QUOTE ]

That surely explains this hand in the context of a tournament.

<font color="white"> Tin Foil hat, shiny side OUT! </font>

[squiffy]

Yes. THis actually happened with 4 left on an SNG. I had AA the flop comes 36J. I go all in. Get called all in by two others.

One guy has AA!!!!!!. A third guy has 36offsuit and the turn is a 6. So he fills up. And both AA are knocked out.

[Prickly Pete]

Also, don't know if you noticed but the QQ schmuck started the hand with 5 less chips than the KK schmuck, thus costing him $200.

I know all too well as I was the QQ schmuck in the above hand. /images/graemlins/mad.gif

[KHALI]

I've seen it once but not down to final three. I believe there were five left when this happened. In the hand I saw the QQ drew four to the flush and beat out both AA and KK. The craziest part was that it wasn't a push fest to start but a cycle of steady raises that the QQ kept calling and getting reraised by one of the other two(she was stuck in the middle).

[jimotto]

I've seen AA-KK-QQ-JJ in a full table. Of course, JJ took it down.