Ok, so today i'm playing at my home casino, Potowatomi Bingo Casino in Milwaukee. Waiting for my 3-5 NL table to open and am watching one of the other NL tables. There is this total donkey whos calling everything under the sun and hasnt folded a hand. I.E. called $100 pre with A 3 off and flop was 10 3 k other guy goes all in for $250 ish and he calls instantly with bottom pair and loses to raisiers AK sp. Very bad player and immediately I knew if I end up a table with him, I wanted to break him off.

So an hour later, they open up a new NL table and I sit down. Guess who sits down at seat 3?? The donkey. So I sit tight for the first few hands, and then I pick up AA utg and raise to $25. I get 4 callers including Donkey boy. Flop comes down 7 5 4. 2 clubs. I lead out with a pot sized bet of $100. Action folds around to the donkey and he thinks and then calls. Turn comes a q hearts. I move all in for about $150 more, hoping for action. He thinks for about 1 minute then calls. River comes a 4.

Board: 7 5 4 q 4. I turn over AA and he turns over 3 4 off to rake MY $600 pot. I said "WELL PLAYED" and got up and left.

I've been thinking about this for the last 3 hours and cant see myself playing it any differently. I had the perfect read on donkey and just got unlucky. But honestly, I haven't taken beat like this in a long time.

Did I make a mistake or was pure unluckiness? I think played it as best as i could.

You played it fine.

He hit one of his nine outs. This is no worse that him hitting a flush draw.

You had this exact read on the guy, he'd call anything. Just unlucky.

a nine outer is the worst beat ever youve ever taken?

and youve been playing for years???

play more than one hand per year, and youll experience MUCH worse

Been on the receiving end of much worse beats and i've only been playing live for about 6 months,

had KK cracked by K2 offsuit all-in preflop ( this is the worst all-in preflop beat statistically possible with me at a 94.16% win preflop)