December 1st, 2008
Take a look at this totally sic suck-out by Gus Hansen $91K+
http://www.pokerlistings.com/hand-replayer_h9086719781_c1901
June 1st, 2008
Ok, this one was very painful because I made it to the last table in a $3.40 tourney on PokerStars - I had pocket 5’s and there was a couple of decent raises pre-flop and 4 of us saw the flop. The flop came Q-Q-5, I already had the full house and was planning on making a killing. The person to my right bet 5k and I raised it to 10k. There was another caller in between us. The turn was another 5 giving me four fives!!!! I checked, the person bet 5k, next player calls and then me just calling. Last card was a 10. Person to my right went all-in 12k more and I called (only had 11k left) the last person folded. The pot was huge!!! — around 70k and would have put me in the lead by about 22k…..anyways the other player had pocket queens!!! OMG, I was totally shocked!!! Now that is a very, very bad beat!!
May 1st, 2008
Here is one of my latest ‘bad-beats’:
Playing Omaha the flop is 7-7-10 and I have pocket 10’s. I check the flop to see if I can spot someone with a 7 and maybe they will bet and I will make some cash. Nobody bets the flop and a K comes on the turn, the first player bets $200 and I raise all-in, an extra $290. We open and sure enough he had 7-K. The river comes and low-and-behold it is a 7….bad, bad beat. This is a friendly cash game and bad beats ussualy get a scratch-and-win lottery ticket but there was none left.
I was thinking I maybe should have bet $100 on the flop but I would have gotten called by the same player because he had trips and no matter what I bet on the turn (if I had more cash) he would have had to call, so I guess I was destined to lose that hand. Feel free to leave comments about your own bad beats.
Gus Hansen Severe Suck-Out