Well, since this is the bad beat section, might as well throw out my worse ever.Playing 3-6 recently this hand comes up. I get A
10
in the cutoff seat. An immediate raise from early position, a few folds, and I call along with the button and both blinds. Flop comes K
Q
9
, giving me THE NUTS, with a ROYAL DRAW. Yeehaw I think to myself as the SB checks, the BB bets, pre-flop raiser raises (naturally), and I 3 bet it, SB folds, BB caps it, and call, call. Turn another club, this one the 7
. I still have the nuts and the royal draw, and I don't fear it necessairly, I can't be beat...yet. BB bets again, other guy just calls (smart one he was), I raise (of course), and call, call. River is the 5
, and I still THINK I have the nuts with just the A
. Heck, there is a flush on the board, and I have the best
. No royal, but who cares I thought. Oops... BB bets again, other guy folds his set of Queens face up, which didn't bother me any, I raised, and got re-raised. I look at the board again, and notice that there is one hand that can beat me, and only one, the 8
6
, making a Straight Flush. I can't possibly see this happening, but then again I can. I re-raise anyway, and immediately he re-raises. (There is unlimited raises head's up.) Aw hell I think, and if he does have it, it isn't even worth the Bad Beat Jackpot well over $20K. I just call and he turns over the hand I had feared, 8
6
.Jeeze, I was dumbfounded. I just lost a huge pot, and yet it seemed as I replayed it over and over again, that there was no way that I could have gotten him out of the hand unless I had re-raised pre-flop. Even then he might have called anyhoo. I think the odds of the runner runner perfect is like 1 in 926, but if anyone knows for sure, don't hesitate to lemme know. Well, the night wasn't a wash, as I was doing well before that, and I continued to do well afterward, but I won't ever forget that hand.
It is a crawdad, not a crawfish. The moral of the story is, it is a crawdad. Not a crawfish.
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