Played at Harrah's. Lost the first chunk with Q-Q. Flop 9-2-3 rainbow. Looked safe, so I moved all-in, as my only opponent was fairly short-stacked. He called. I showed the queens. Board played out 4-5, at which point he turned over 4-5 for runner-runner two pair. Sigh.
Lost the rest in an even more diseased fashion. 10-10 in the hole. Raise. Four callers. Flop Js-9c-10s. Checked to me. I ship it all in. Pay for your draws, fellas. Two callers, so I can't show yet. Turn: Jh. Now with a full house, I relax about the draws. One remaining opponent bets enough to put the other all in, gets a call. River: 10h for quads. Now I'm really relaxed about those draws.
Until the other guy flips over his J-J for better quads.
To rub salt in the wound, Harrah's does not have a bad-beat jackpot these days (though they used to). It is the first time I have ever been in on a hand that would qualify for a bad-beat jackpot by the usual criteria.
To pour some alcohol into the already salted wound, the floor guy checks their house rule book and finds that when there are two high hands at the same time, only the winner collects the high-hand bonus.
I left with nothing but a hard-to-top cooler story, and the package of Double-Stuf Oreos I bought on the way home for self-soothing.
Monday, November 08, 2010
Not my night
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I played at Harrah's yesterday afternoon and evening, and fell victim to flopped set over set, and saw two other flopped sets over sets. Something in the air over there ...
As for hard to beat cooler stories ... I flopped Jacks full of Tens on a JhThTs board, got it all in against 9h8h ... running Qh-7h to hit both of his outs.
OUCH
That's brutal. That same scenario in a bad beat house could earn you six figures. Life is all about timing
Some of the old guys will only play certain casinos for a reason. I must admit that while I don't enjoy the increased rake for jackpots, I certainly like the insurance of not going home empty handed on such a beat!
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