How crooked is Party Poker? My two cents.

[jvphish]

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I'm playing in their Million dollar tourney yesterday and of about 1900 entries, we're down to about 600. Pays top 220. I'm right on the avg stack and am in first position with pocket A's. Blinds are 200/400 and I raise to 1000 from first position. Table folds all the way around to the bb who calls. Flop comes A, 9, 2. I've got the nuts with trip A's and want to see how much I can extract. I go in for another 1000 and am promptly raised all in by the BB. He has trip 9 at best so I quickly call. He has me covered barely and shows K Q of diamonds. So he now has AKQ of diamonds to my trip A's. Of course he quickly gets runner runner J, 10 to end my run. First what are the chances that he gets the J, 10 to hand me the beat but more importantly, why would he be anywhere near that hand to begin with? If someone raises like that from 1st position, you've GOT to put them on a solid pair or high Ace at least. It's bad enough that he called the raise from his position but to raise all in with AKQ when I obviously had a big hand is laughable. His comment after the runner runner draw was that "he had a feeling". Give me a break. Anyway, this clown proceded to finish 2nd in the event and pocket 117K. Too convenient if you ask me. Somehow, someway, I'm convinced that the winners of these tourneys can somehow be manipulated. There's no way a moron like that makes that play in the first place after 3 hours of building a stack. Any thoughts or was it just another bad beat?

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pretty odd...one of my worst beats is a very similar one.

dealt QK in the BB
SB raises me the minimum
i call

flop: Q Q 8

he goes all in right away
i call...he flips over AK...complete bluff

turn: J

river: 10

[bestcellar]

hey guys

so this one time, I took a really bad beat

[capone0]

My friend lost AA vs AK vs QQ vs JJ vs 86 suited allin pf at a live 130 buyin event.

Flop came QJx. Blank and river a 10. Instead of having 12k in chips he had 2.5 K. So bad beats and stupid hands including people unable to fold crap such as QQ and JJ and AK to multiple reraises happen all the time live or online. I remember 1 time on Stars, a FPP tourney which are dumb as hell. I decide to call an allin with JJ when I knew I was beat, a guy with 89 also calls, the 2 stacks who went at it had AA and KK. Before the hand ends, 89 leaves the tourney pre-maturely. Flop comes Jxx, turn 10, river 7. Talk about............awful call pf, by me and 89. I don't think the guy ever returned either.

[allintuit]

I experienced my absolute worst beat last night. I was in the SB playing at a PokerStars tournament early on, when I was dealt 77. Two limpers called, the SB raised and I called it. The two limpers folded. Flop came 7d3h7h. He checks into me and I bet a medium amount. He raises all in and obviously I call. He shows 2h5h, obviously drawing to a flush. Obviously then, HE CATCHES RUNNER RUNNER STRAIGHT FLUSH. Ridiculous

[Bobby Cannoli]

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hey guys

so this one time, I took a really bad beat

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At band camp?

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[pooh74]

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I experienced my absolute worst beat last night. I was in the SB playing at a PokerStars tournament early on, when I was dealt 77. Two limpers called, the SB raised and I called it. The two limpers folded. Flop came 7d3h7h. He checks into me and I bet a medium amount. He raises all in and obviously I call. He shows 2h5h, obviously drawing to a flush. Obviously then, HE CATCHES RUNNER RUNNER STRAIGHT FLUSH. Ridiculous

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Finally a bad beat worth posting...they will never get worse than that so anything less is just not postable.

[Jax_Grinder]

Whoa, Whoa, Whoa.

You make a small (2.5xBB) raise from EP w/ AA, make a 1/3 pot bet on the flop to "extract more chips", get a bluff raise (exactly what you want), and then get beat on a rnr rnr and you wan't sympathy? Boy, have you come to the WRONG forum for that.

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If someone raises like that from 1st position, you've GOT to put them on a solid pair or high Ace at least. It's bad enough that he called the raise from his position but to raise all in with AKQ when I obviously had a big hand is laughable.

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How many chips did Villain have? If you have 4500 and raise 1/4 of your stack pf, and then put out another 1/4 on the flop, a big stack may very well bluff here. In such a situation, his pf call is fine, and his bluff on the flop is very iffy, but not uncommon (esp. if he puts you on 1010/JJ/QQ or the like).