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A casino in Arizona last week was home to one of the worst bad beats you'll ever see.
At the Casino Del Sol Poker Room in Tuscon, a run-of-the-mill $1-$2 table saw some crazy fireworks with a $18,000 bad beat jackpot up for grabs. When the dust settled, one player was sitting with a straight flush, which trounced a player with quad nines and a player with quad tens, as pictured above. The photo was posted to Reddit's poker forum.
The player with the king-high straight flush received $4,500 of the bad beat, while the player with quad tens received the lion's share of $9,000. The player who had flopped quad nines received just $665, the same as every other player at the table uninvolved with the hand.
The payout structure is typical of bad beat jackpots, but it's virtually unheard of for there to be three qualifying hands in a bad beat. Under bad beat jackpot rules in poker rooms across the country, you must play both of your hole cards. The absurdity of the hand apparently had the poker room a little confused. It took about 90 minutes for the payouts to occur.
The man who suffered the bad beat on the bad beat was 37-year-old recreational poker player R.J. Bergman, reported PokerNews. Bergman, a YMCA program director, lost his $165 stack in the hand, so he really only won $500 for losing with quad nines.
Bergman wasn't happy with the result. The 10 that landed on the river was a cruel card because the player with pocket tens wasn't live to win the hand.
'I explained [to the casino] that the 10s were drawing dead on the turn so how is it a bad beat for him,' he wrote on Reddit. 'They said it goes by the rank of the cards after the hand is done.'
However, argued Bergman, 'the single card that improves his hand over mine is the case 10 and that gives the other guy the straight flush. He had 0 percent to win the hand after the turn card came out. I was a 98 percent favorite.'
What has Bergman learned from the hand?
'Never slow play flopped quads!' he wrote tongue-in-cheek. 'I wake up every morning shaking my head. My friends are saying I should start a Gofundme page to cover the therapy bills I am going to need. Any supporters in that?'
Bergman added that the hand makes him feel 'queasy.'
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During a recent discussion on a poker forum, a friend wrote, 'I can't stand it when someone plays a hand bad against me and hits.' This guy is an excellent player who beats tough games, but I cannot fathom the rationale of his statement. The hangover casino game.
I will put this bluntly: if players never hit when they played bad, poker would die overnight.
Bergman wasn't happy with the result. The 10 that landed on the river was a cruel card because the player with pocket tens wasn't live to win the hand.
'I explained [to the casino] that the 10s were drawing dead on the turn so how is it a bad beat for him,' he wrote on Reddit. 'They said it goes by the rank of the cards after the hand is done.'
However, argued Bergman, 'the single card that improves his hand over mine is the case 10 and that gives the other guy the straight flush. He had 0 percent to win the hand after the turn card came out. I was a 98 percent favorite.'
What has Bergman learned from the hand?
'Never slow play flopped quads!' he wrote tongue-in-cheek. 'I wake up every morning shaking my head. My friends are saying I should start a Gofundme page to cover the therapy bills I am going to need. Any supporters in that?'
Bergman added that the hand makes him feel 'queasy.'
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During a recent discussion on a poker forum, a friend wrote, 'I can't stand it when someone plays a hand bad against me and hits.' This guy is an excellent player who beats tough games, but I cannot fathom the rationale of his statement. The hangover casino game.
I will put this bluntly: if players never hit when they played bad, poker would die overnight.
Let's consider a couple of other games: tennis and chess. Black sublimation poker table felt. If you play either of those games less expertly than your opponent, you get destroyed. In a 10-game match in either pursuit, the inferior player might well lose all 10 games, and refuse to play that opponent again.
It is not a coincidence that there is little money wagered in competitive amateur tennis or chess.
But real-money poker thrives. Millions of amateurs play the game on a 'level playing field' against far superior players, including professionals. I say 'level playing field' because the superior players never offer any quarter to the weaker ones — no points given, no pawns removed.
Why would a weak amateur or novice player be willing to risk his money, dollar for dollar, against a top pro?
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Because sometimes people play a hand poorly and hit. Sometimes they play five hands in a row miserably and hit all five. They buy in for $300, crush the pros, cash out for $1,500, and wonder why they ever did anything else with their spare time.
They may not know that they've played the hand badly, that the pros are mentally hanging a 'fish' tag over their seat at the table. Maybe they haven't read books, watched videos, or been coached. Maybe they know the rules, but not the strategy. Maybe they think they're playing well, but they're wrong. Or perhaps their utility — their joy — in the game comes from swimming upstream against the odds and occasionally hitting. I mean, I imagine it's quite rewarding to pick one number on a roulette layout and have the ball drop onto exactly that number. People are terrible at poker for a lot of reasons.
But if terrible players didn't win occasionally, what would happen? We'd be in a chess/tennis regime. Good players would quickly destroy bad ones. Better players would destroy the good players. The top elite would wipe out the 'better' players. Phil Galfond and a few of his cohorts would end up with all the money, and before you could say 'deck change,' poker would be dead.
It's not easy to be equanimous when you play great, the other guy plays the hand as badly as possible, but he wins. I don't know if this will help you, but I try to put myself in the winner's shoes. He may feel 'lucky' for a moment. Maybe he had a rotten day at work and this is the first good thing that's happened. One of the beauties of poker is that on every hand, somebody wins the pot and is happy. Happy can be hard to come by in our world, so learn to celebrate that person's joy, even when it comes at our financial cost.
And remember that it's the intrinsic 'unfairness' in our game that keeps the players coming, the cards flying, and the pots pushing, day after day, year after year. Hooray for bad players!
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