Aces cracked.

[TX Bill]

You can find No Limit Hold 'em Poker tournaments on TV over here quite a bit. If you've never watched one, take a few minutes and watch. You'll learn a lot in no time and find it very entertaining.

You Tube has plenty. I've attached an episode of the WSOP Main Event from this year (Episode 5) randomly. Have a watch:

 

[canuckblue]

Sounds exactly the kind of way you want a hand to go when you've got aces. Getting someone all in is what you've got to aim for. It's horrible getting a bad beat live like. So much easier when it happens on-line.

Trouble is, in my opinion, the algorithms most online sites use to generate the hand are set up so that suckouts or runner-runner are a lot more common in real life, so players will stay in hands way longer than they ought to.

 

[mezzrow]

Someone limps into the flop real slowly, 2 clubs, 8 spades, King hearts. I have Ace Ace. He puts a pity bet in pretending to trap to make it look like hes on the trap to then have me thinking hes trying to make the cowboys. I see his pity bet to shut him up or provoke him. Queen diamonds on the turn, he pity raises again, so i raise and he re raises. Its texas hold em so one of us is bust out at this hand as we're 'all in', cards on their backs - I show the aces, he flips Queen spades and 5 hearts.
Queen on the river, so he makes trips which beats my Aces.
52 cards in the deck, he was fishing for Queens or 5's. I could have picked up one of the two remaining aces (but I was already winning) and he was dead on his feet trying to find the queens or 5's left in the deck (3 of each left).

...you said, “Kid, this ain’t your night. We’re going for the price on Wilson.” You remember that? “This ain’t your night”! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville!

 

[Mrtallywacker]

@Mrtallywacker

Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he that gathers by labor shall increase.

 

[L4Everton]

Proverbs 13:11
Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he that gathers by labor shall increase.

Thats why only fools and horses work.....la la la la la

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Bad beat stories eh? Try to avoid them, but fair enough since the thread started... I once lost a close to $2500 pot to two very drunk swedish guys playing 1/2NL at the Monte Carlo in Vegas, hand went as follows.

There'd been 2 tables of 1/2 going on, but it had got to about 3.30am and players had filtered away, so they combined the tables. The two Swedes had been drinking all night, but had clearly been running like god, and had more money infront of them (one of them in particular had pushing 2k - considering max sit down was 200) than anyone i'd seen before at a 1/2 table...

I'd been playing for hours (the gross thing is i was only there to rack up "loyalty hours" for a big 100k freerole, and I'd stupidly left myself with like 30hrs to do in the last 10 days of the month) and was up to about $800

So, they were getting moved over to our table, but the really big stacked guy had so many chips that they coloured him up (exchanged smaller denomination chips for large ones) to make transport easier.

So they sit down, and the game starts playing pretty crazy... Opening raises were in the range of 7-10x, and usually with at least 2 or 3 callers.

About 4 or 5 hands in, I get dealt AA, and open the betting for $15. One caller, and it gets round to Swedish guy #1 (the huge stack)... He reaches down and INTENDS (i find out later) to pick up 10 $5 chips to make it $50... Presumably due to his drunken state, he picks up 10 $100 chips and pushes them into the middle - not stating a bet size, so the bet stands and he's now raised to $1000 lol.

Swedish guy #2 then SNAP moves all in for about another $150.

Obviously I call with my AA for my $800, and the first swede calls the extra 100.

Swedish guy #1 turns over: KK
Swedish guy #2 turns over: KK

Flop: 3 J 9
Turn 10
River Q

Cheers, thanks for playing.

 

[TX Bill]

Bad beat stories eh? Try to avoid them, but fair enough since the thread started... I once lost a close to $2500 pot to two very drunk swedish guys playing 1/2NL at the Monte Carlo in Vegas, hand went as follows.

There'd been 2 tables of 1/2 going on, but it had got to about 3.30am and players had filtered away, so they combined the tables. The two Swedes had been drinking all night, but had clearly been running like god, and had more money infront of them (one of them in particular had pushing 2k - considering max sit down was 200) than anyone i'd seen before at a 1/2 table...

I'd been playing for hours (the gross thing is i was only there to rack up "loyalty hours" for a big 100k freerole, and I'd stupidly left myself with like 30hrs to do in the last 10 days of the month) and was up to about $800

So, they were getting moved over to our table, but the really big stacked guy had so many chips that they coloured him up (exchanged smaller denomination chips for large ones) to make transport easier.

So they sit down, and the game starts playing pretty crazy... Opening raises were in the range of 7-10x, and usually with at least 2 or 3 callers.

About 4 or 5 hands in, I get dealt AA, and open the betting for $15. One caller, and it gets round to Swedish guy #1 (the huge stack)... He reaches down and INTENDS (i find out later) to pick up 10 $5 chips to make it $50... Presumably due to his drunken state, he picks up 10 $100 chips and pushes them into the middle - not stating a bet size, so the bet stands and he's now raised to $1000 lol.

Swedish guy #2 then SNAP moves all in for about another $150.

Obviously I call with my AA for my $800, and the first swede calls the extra 100.

Swedish guy #1 turns over: KK
Swedish guy #2 turns over: KK

Flop: 3 J 9
Turn 10
River Q

Cheers, thanks for playing.

Easily one of the worst bad beats I've heard as they had each others outs preflop.

Friend of mine three years ago was playing in his first WSOP main event ($10,000 buy in).

He was up to around 96,000 in chips towards the end of the night (Day 1) round and was thinking about just packing it in, getting some dinner and getting rest. 30 min to go in the round (and the day) and a guy preflop raises "All-in !!" My friend, in the big blind looks down a AA.

Looks at the guy and says "Sorry, gotta call." He said the guy's face looked ashen when he said that. The other guy had him covered in chips by the way and was the table chip leader while my friend had either the second most or third most chips at the table.

My friend turns over the AA and the other guy turns over AQ unsuited.

Q on the flop.

Q on the river.

My friend is knocked out.

 

[Minimeister]

Easily one of the worst bad beats I've heard as they had each others outs preflop.

Friend of mine three years ago was playing in his first WSOP main event ($10,000 buy in).

He was up to around 96,000 in chips towards the end of the night (Day 1) round and was thinking about just packing it in, getting some dinner and getting rest. 30 min to go in the round (and the day) and a guy preflop raises "All-in !!" My friend, in the big blind looks down a AA.

Looks at the guy and says "Sorry, gotta call." He said the guy's face looked ashen when he said that. The other guy had him covered in chips by the way and was the table chip leader while my friend had either the second most or third most chips at the table.

My friend turns over the AA and the other guy turns over AQ unsuited.

Q on the flop.

Q on the river.

My friend is knocked out.

See that to me is an even worse beat. The way he played it was awful and didn't deserve the luck he got.

 

[Philw]

Easily one of the worst bad beats I've heard as they had each others outs preflop.

Friend of mine three years ago was playing in his first WSOP main event ($10,000 buy in).

He was up to around 96,000 in chips towards the end of the night (Day 1) round and was thinking about just packing it in, getting some dinner and getting rest. 30 min to go in the round (and the day) and a guy preflop raises "All-in !!" My friend, in the big blind looks down a AA.

Looks at the guy and says "Sorry, gotta call." He said the guy's face looked ashen when he said that. The other guy had him covered in chips by the way and was the table chip leader while my friend had either the second most or third most chips at the table.

My friend turns over the AA and the other guy turns over AQ unsuited.

Q on the flop.

Q on the river.

My friend is knocked out.

Isn't AJ suited the best hand statistically in poker? Seems to me your mate was screwed as soon as the other guy had AQ, or am I just being thick?

 

[Moomin]

Double 8's is my fave hand, statistical not a great hand but I find it lucky for me.

 

[TX Bill]

Isn't AJ suited the best hand statistically in poker? Seems to me your mate was screwed as soon as the other guy had AQ, or am I just being thick?

Don't know. I'd rather have AA than AJs any day of the week.

I lost a hand a few weeks ago like this:

Three callers ahead of me for $3. I look down at Ah Jh. Raise to $16. Everyone else folds except the three callers who call my $16 raise.

Flop comes A, Q, 4 rainbow (no flush draw at present). Good flop for me. I'm in position so the first caller checks. Second caller bets $20. Third caller folds and I call, guy who checks first also folds. Heads up now.

Blank on the turn (a card that didn't help anyone). My opponent bets $50. Now I've got to start wondering what he has. Still no flush draw out there (I called him down earlier on a missed flush and won a sizeable pot from him earlier in the evening) so I'm hoping he has an A with a lower kicker (say five or six). I call.

River card is another A. So I've got trip aces with the jack kicker. He bets "all-in." I can't lay it down now so I call.

He turns over AK and his trip aces wins with the king kicker. Lost a few hundred on that pot too.

Not a big fan of AJ unless suited and I hit two (or three!!) of my suit on the flop.

 

[TX Bill]

Double 8's is my fave hand, statistical not a great hand but I find it lucky for me.

We all have a hand that we'll pretty much play no matter what.

J 8 suited is mine. No rhyme or reason at all other than it's the only hand I've flopped a straight flush with. Now I play it all the time.

 

[Philw]

Don't know. I'd rather have AA than AJs any day of the week.

I lost a hand a few weeks ago like this:

Three callers ahead of me for $3. I look down at Ah Jh. Raise to $16. Everyone else folds except the three callers who call my $16 raise.

Flop comes A, Q, 4 rainbow (no flush draw at present). Good flop for me. I'm in position so the first caller checks. Second caller bets $20. Third caller folds and I call, guy who checks first also folds. Heads up now.

Blank on the turn (a card that didn't help anyone). My opponent bets $50. Now I've got to start wondering what he has. Still no flush draw out there (I called him down earlier on a missed flush and won a sizeable pot from him earlier in the evening) so I'm hoping he has an A with a lower kicker (say five or six). I call.

River card is another A. So I've got trip aces with the jack kicker. He bets "all-in." I can't lay it down now so I call.

He turns over AK and his trip aces wins with the king kicker. Lost a few hundred on that pot too.

Not a big fan of AJ unless suited and I hit two (or three!!) of my suit on the flop.

Yeah well obv that's one of the big attractions, you've got several different ways to win; pairs/3oak with A or J, straights high with both or mid with jack, flush as well... don't really play much tho so don't know how well it works in practice.

We all have a hand that we'll pretty much play no matter what.

J 8 suited is mine. No rhyme or reason at all other than it's the only hand I've flopped a straight flush with. Now I play it all the time.

That's like keeping on going to the same club, week in, week out, cos you once made out with a fit bird there....






We've all done it like...

 

[L4Everton]

I was chip leader and got busted in one hand when I had AJ (not suited) and ran into a pair of 8's. The cry baby with the 8's had complained I hadn't said all in when I pushed my stack forward, so he decided not to do a chip count when I asked how much I had him covered by. Not a friendly table as I had kicked the backsides of a lot of regulars and locals and it was the first and last time I played that venue.
Got a bit of hope on the table, 10 & K, but the Q never showed on the river (and I had at a guess around 1 in 5 outs to pick up - one of three Aces or Hooks, or one of four ladies) his 8's held up and I didn't kick up a fuss. Only time I've ever left a table with every set of eyes looking at their shoes.

Poker though, some places the rules don't exist unless you play that place weekly and get your face known. Bad beats, suppose we all love dishing them out and hate getting caned by them.

 

[Little Ralphy]

Some bad beats in this thread. I've had a few, once had AAs in Planet Hollywood Vegas, I raised pre-flop to try and knock out any limpers. Comes out something like A J 3, so I figured I'm in good shape with trip As, lad bets so I go all in, he calls almost instantly. Turns them over and he has J 7 suited but not matching any suit on the board, everyone sort of just stared at him wondering what was going on. Wouldn't you just know the next two cards down were J J. He went wild, and the only consolation as I got up to leave the table, was when the Pit Boss was explaining to him he didn't win the high hand bonus because he only had 1 J in his hand and 3 were on the table.