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[Woodsman]

PPMIV Cruise Tournament day 1 somewhere in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. Aprox. 6-7 hours into the big event Blinds are 600/1200 playing at the 1200/2400 level. I am on the button with Pocket 7's. The cutoff seat limps in I call and the small blind completes the bet and the big blind checks. Flop comes up 6,7,2 SB checks BB checks, cutoff seat bets, I raise, blinds fold and the cutoff re-raises me and I cap it. The table had been loose aggressive all day. The player I’m up against had seen several pots to the end with only A high. People were seeing the flops with all kinds of hands. I put my opponent on A7 or pocket pair larger than 7. I’m thinking maybe 9' s due to not raising preflop. Turn brings a king. Cutoff bets, I raise, he re-raises me and I cap it. Now seeing how aggressive he was with the scare card of the King makes me wonder, but I still feel my Set of 7's are still good. Did he just make two pair? Would he see a flop in late position with K7 at this stage of play? K10 maybe? What does he think I have? He had been pretty aggressive all morning pushing people out of pots. Trip 7's have got to be good still.River brings another King giving me a full house. My opponent bets very quickly, as his last chip hits the felt I have to think long and hard. Only two hands can beat me K7 or KK. I had a feeling that I may be beat but I also thought this aggressive opponent would fire just to try and make me fold. Could he think I have A7 and he limped with AK? Kx would make him bet at the pot on the last two streets but why keep up with me capping it post flop. If I raise I would be all in. My intuition was screaming that I was beat but I felt folding was not a good option. So I call leaving myself with approximately 1500 in chips left. My opponent turns over his Pocket Kings crippling my stack and my hopes of surviving Day 1 of my first major tournament. I was knocked out three hands later when my KQs hit a K on the flop but an A helped someone else on the river and allowed me to enjoy the rest of the cruise and the juicy cash games aboard the ship. Card Player Cruises run an excellent poker room aboard ship. The game selection was excellent the wait time was not too bad. It was a great 7 days cruise filled with poker and a great opportunity to learn more about my game, meet new people from Party Poker, and a couple of pros too.

[BuzzWorthy]

That's not a bad beat:- he had a better starting hand- his play on the turn is reasonable given that he has an overpair- once he made trips on the turn, he had the nuts.You could only have won if you caught your case 7.

[Woodsman]

You are correct may not be as bad as someone catching the only card in the deck that can save them to win the hand. But it sure felt bad at the time. If it were only one hand in a cash game or SNG i probably would not mention it at all. But the circumstances and bad timing cost me the hopes of winning 1.5 Million. It was a learning experience that I wanted to share. Thanks for your input.

[BuzzWorthy]

Yeah, I have no doubt it was very painful, given the circumstances. I know I'd be circling the deck for days bitchin and moaning...However, I think it would probably be a huge poker growth experience to recognize it for the decent play it was, and not blame it on a bad beat. However, I have to admit I'm not a big fan of slowrolling Kings - too often an Ace appears on the flop, making life miserable. He did get relatively lucky given the circumstances.Just trying to help - and I certainly don't mean to rub salt in your wounds...

[otnemem]

BuzzWorthy said:

That's not a bad beat:- he had a better starting hand- his play on the turn is reasonable given that he has an overpair- once he made trips on the turn, he had the nuts.You could only have won if you caught your case 7.

This is, indeed, a bad beat. It doesn't matter who had the better hand before the flop. The flop gave hero the nuts. Hero went from better than a 9-1 favorite to a 43-1 dog. I consider that a bad beat.

[Woodsman]

You didnt rub salt. Its all good. The hand didnt even make me mad. (I drank a beer shook it off and immediately went to the poker room) Made me feel silly for being so arogant with my own holdings that I faild to realize he had a genuine hand and that it improved greatly. My read at the end that I was beat was correct. I should trust my instincts more but even if I folded the last bet my stack was pretty much toast. Heck even if he raised pre flop I probably would have still lost a lot of checks after i got my trips as i probably would have called a single raise from the button with a middle pair. Thats Poker. I take the experience with me and I will be wiser for it in the future. I appreciate your comments. Thanks again.

[AUBrandon]

blinds didn't even hit 500/1000 until the 9th hour (last 30 mins of day 1), so maybe the limits were 600/1200 instead of the blinds... well I don't have a bad beat story of my own for this tournament, but I did get put out about 10 places from the money... OUCH.. thanks Paul Darden!