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[otnemem]

The worst bad beat I ever delivered went like this:I had just run my short stack up to average in a 55 person freezeout. We're down to three tables, I and I'm dealt 4-4 UTG+1. The table is pretty passive, so I call. Two more limp, and the button min-raises. I have about five times his raise left, so I decide if I push I can A) narrow the field, B) possibly scare him off a better hand, due to my check raise. Well he calls with pocket queens and my fours shrink up. I start getting my stuff ready to leave.Flop: 7-6-KYuck.Turn: 7-6-K-(5)Hmmm, open ended straight draw; any 3, 4, or 8...River: 7-6-K-(5) and.... the glorious (3), filling in my straight. That gave me a pretty big stack, and I ended up running over the rest of the competition and winning the tournament.I did some calculations later...Roughly 5-1 before the flop, and 9-1 after. brutal for that guy...

[MrConceit]

XXEddie said:

I really dont think you shoulda called a 4 or 5 an "out" A 4 puts four to a str8 on board and if a five comes youll have the "ass" end of the str8, the 3 was te only "real" out there

He didn't call the 5 an out, he said he had the 3, 8, or 4. And it was allin preflop. He knew what it took to win. So while a 4 woulda put 4 to a straight on the board he knew that QQ wouldn't have a straight there.

[Awful]

Ummm, Ummm....He was all in. They flipped them up. He know what does and doesn't give him the best hand. The ignorant end of the straight even with 4 on the board is fine when you know your one opponent doesn't have the high card. This didn't get played out.

[Knightmare44]

XXEddie said:

I really dont think you shoulda called a 4 or 5 an "out" A 4 puts four to a str8 on board and if a five comes youll have the "ass" end of the str8, the 3 was te only "real" out there

wow.... Eddie do you player poker? you know when people are all-in their hands are flipped up? obviously he wasn't afraid of Q-Q making a straight if he hit his 4 on that board.

[chester84]

That was a pretty bad all in from you to begin with anyway, if there are a number of callers and someone then raises the minimal, it would raise some alarms in my head, why would someone raise the minimum with 3 limpers in the pot unless he had a pretty strong hand and wanted some action, i wouldnt go all in over the top of this guy with such a weak hand, especially when there are players still to act after you.Anyway guess you won in the end! how did you finish in the tourney?

[otnemem]

I agree, it wasn't a great spot to push. I thought that I could make the rest of the limpers lay down their hands, isolating the preflop min-raiser. He was min. raising every hand. It wasn't a "I want action raise." It was his standard. If he had overcards, I'd be happy with my slight edge to win the pot. Just so happened he had the big pair. I ended up winning the tournament, so it worked out...