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No one wants to here about moaning about bad beats. Lets have some positive stuff and use this thread to post hands were you got lucky and what a difference it made to your life :)

Does it have to make a difference to your life? Surely just a gloat in the face of the odds should be good enough.

I once walked into a McDonalds, ordered my meal (a large bigmac meal and 20 nuggets) and got given a McFlurry for free! I fistpump banged the table immediately

Gl with the diary Mitch

no not life changing but would love to hear stuff like " I spite called knowing he was ahead but he once slept with my sister"


Alex the video of Mitch and Stato have me the idea. I expect this thread to have over taken Tips for Tikay within a month :)

 Ahrt

Just as i thought, people only get unlucky in poker. (Or skillz obv)

As many times as I've been hideously unlucky in this game, I've had one or two that seem to balance out my equity in some bizarre fashions. The following is one of my favourites.

I was on tilt at Gala one night, before I learned to quit. I was stuck about £400 and I had everything I brought to the game on the table so I decided I was going broke or getting out of it. Playing about £250 in a 50/1 game, some guy that had beat me in a big pot earlier on in the night opened so I spite 3balled the Aspades 6s on the button. Villain called and we were heads up. The flop comes Th 9c 6h . He checks, I bet what must have roughly been £20~ into £30~ and he just jams. Like £240. I spluttered for a second, gave him the "not sure if serious" face, and started to seriously consider a call. This would almost get me out of it, and there's a flush draw there. Yeah, he must have a flush draw, I'm going to be a hero.

I CAWL

"How many times do you want to run it?" he asks

... Well what do you have?

He rolls over Ts Td

Top set.

"Just once. I can't ever win the whole pot if we run it twice."

I actually do that bit where you put your coat on, put your phone in your pocket and stay for the turn and river, you know, just in case

ACE on the turn

...

ACE ON THE RIVERRRR

The best part was I was so dumbstruck by the hideous bad beat I just inflicted that I couldn't really move to turn my cards over and all I could say was "that's so sick," so the poor kid got slowrolled as well.

Does Alan Stern know about this thread?

in the DTD 300 last week with 24 left I was about 4th in chips, then lost a big pot AQ vs 78o on A56, very next hand i r/c AK from the btn into the big blinds ACES - wtf is that lol, now I have 4 big blinds...

Very next hand i ship A7hh, get called by AK, flop comes 7xx hh 7 A lol tyvm.

Next hand I 3bet KK, guy ships A2s i call/hold (back to roughly where i was before Aq hand now) I fold the next hand and get moved tables to UTG

I find AKcc, open, get 3bet, shove, get called, he has KK i spike an ACE

Nexthand im in the BB, fold to skalie who ships Q5s i find AKo and call, board runs out x5xQx but i make a 4flush now I have 3x average and am the chips leader.

7 hands.

At GUKPT Coventry ME a couple of years ago I make day2 with just 33k with the average being 41k or there abouts and I've got the table chippy, if not tournament, to my direct left.
Within the first orbit the chip leader raises 2.5x UTG to my BB. Folds round to me and I shove 77. He obv snaps with KK and the board runs out all spades with me holding the 7 and a nice little double up. I went on to buble the final table.

At last weeks GPS I'd just reloaded and so I'm sat with 25k I'm UTG and I make it 1400 to play it folds round to the button who shoves for 14k total. I dwell for about 5 seconds and call he flips AA with a big smile when he see what I'm holding. Flop runs out KxK. I thought he was going to throw up as he left the table.

Not life changing but satisfying when it happens.

Dissapointed Julian has not posted here :)

He didnt get lucky, he sold his soul.

Could tell you about all the big ones I've lost, but not really some any big suckouts yet. Just taking the #largeequitybeats on the chin.

I think I got it all-in pre-flop with KK v AA about seven times in a row (over a period of 6 months+) playing cash at DTD and won every time.  It got to the stage where I would say "unlucky" to the other player if he 'fast-rolled' me with his aces.

One of the players I did it to had been playing in the Virgin comp at DTD, and he was the first player out of the that when his AA was busted by KK.  He came and sat on the .50/1 table and was fairly cheerful and phlegmatic about the manner of his exit from the tournament.  He sat to my immediate right, and on his second hand it was folded to his SB and he raised, and I looked down at Kh Kd.  A few re-raises later and both of our stacks are in the middle and I ask "Aces?" and he nods.  I nod back and flip my cards over and he shows Ac Aspades.

Flop: Tc Qd 3d 8d Td

I bought him a drink.

i did wonder how you managed to finance sitting with the likes of Alex, Mitch n Stato :)

yesterdays little flurry aside the one that sticks in mind is the $5k venetian ME in the summer of 08...late on day 2 with a flight booked for the following morning i was gonna go for it & either run up a stack or bust out,
i got 67ss in pre for lots vs 1010, flop was 10 high, one spade, you can guess the rest lol, re-booked the flight & won the comp for $250k the following evening,
ain't ne'er run good since

About 3 years ago with about £500 to my name i 1 tabled the sunday million. with 20 left i got in AQ vs AK. The board runs out K64JT. Went on to win it for $230k

My worst beat I've put on someone was in a cash game with 74 vs QQ allin on on a Q737 board...

Wiiiiii now that's what I'm talking about $250k and $230k for one of the best live players and the best tinternet  players around.
Gotta be something in this getting lucky and maybe we need to embrace it more  and moan less :)

And Alex with the 1 outer too. I been fighting the "pokers a game of skill" corner for far too long.

In the interest of Alan Stearn balance:

When i first started playing at DTD, I only played .50/1, was 100 cap, and I was winning about 100 quid so had 200 quid in front of me. My mate was playing 1/2 and the .50/1 game was pretty boring so decided to take a shot.

Went on a mini heater and got up to nearly 500 quid and the game broke. There was a 2/5 game open that I remember Sunny Nagi was coaxing me to play in, or I could go back to 50/1.

Gambooooolll right?!

Sat with the lot, won a couple of pots then got AA vs KK and doubled up. All of a sudden I was sat with 1200 quid, which was a ridiculous amount of money to me at the time. A sensible one would go home surely but by now I'd caught the bug! Kept playing and got into a pot with Alan where:

I open UTG with 66, he flats, the blinds come along. It comes 862 with a flush draw.  I bet, Alan and the bb call. Turn 3o, I bet, Alan Calls, bb ships for about 400. I call, Alan now goes all in behind covering me. I call (pretty fkn nervous by this point!). The big blind turns over 45o to our obvious disgruntlement! Ah well, at least I'll still win a bit overall through Alan.

River is a 6. Alan stands up excitedly and launches his cards face up onto the table exclaiming: "NUTS!!!", and rubbing his hands together, having just got there vs the big blind with his 88. I turn my hand over amidst the shaking and rake in the 3k pot effectively trebling my net worth at the time.

Decent life.

Call

I was the best man at a wedding in London, picked up my suit from the tailors in Sheffield, didn't try it on because I assumed it was the same suit I'd tried a few days before, when I got to London the evening before I discovered it was about three sizes too small.

Saturday morning I ring up the tailors head office, they agree to let me get another suit from their warehouse, punch the post code into the Sat Nav to discover it was directly opposite my hotel.

I know its not poker, but that was my 'one time' right there.

Like important tourney pots/huge cash game pots. Cba giving details but not run good so far.

Glad I could be of assistance to you sir. Hope you're well!

Playing 1/2 cash at G/Sheffield.

Chinese guy, very loose likes to gamble, reloads, but for very little most times.

I have AA.

I can't remember how it went, but I imagine I raise, he calls, like he usually does.

FLOP

 2d  Ac  5s

Money goes in on flop & I am just wanting to avoid him hitting his middle pinner & hoping for a pair up straight away.

 5h

I turn my cards over to say "ok, I have won" but he instead turns his cards over quicker than the speed of light and show pocket 5's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dealer deals the river so chuffing quick for me to hardly realise anything & the river is.....

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I recently had a striaght a flush against 2 boats and 4 of a kind lol

I was ahead the whole way i hasten to add, but caught a particularly favorable river card.

Actually another hilarious couple of hands i had lol at DTD last yr playing 1/2 plo, first hand i sat down I decided to 3bet some absolute bag of spanners just cos w/e i can lol,

by the turn the flop had the  Ts 9s 6s of spades on it and i had the  7s 8s, my opponent had the NF, ul.

2 hands later I open, he 3bets me, I call with TT88, flop comes KTT, and ofc he has KK....

That same session I got £1400 in preflop 3ways in 6card PLO with terrible AA**** lol board ran out 678JJ with three hearts and naked AA won.

Not a suck out as such, but still pretty lucky


DTD GP 12 left I think

I have AA utg and raise,
utg +1 shoves ( I cover comfortably)
2 folds
another all in (also covered comfortably)
and a long slow tank fold from the only stack on the table that can seriously damage me

hands go over and folds are discussed
hands are
AA me
99
72o
JJ folded
KK
QQ folded

board runs out xxJQQ

Just love the hero's turning up like Free rollin and Railtard showing up in the thread.

None poker stuff is cool as well Barry

Cheers mate, yeah I am, you?

Think that was the same night u bluffed Mitch all in for like 500 on the river all in reds. He said call as you pushed them in and you just continued pushing them all the way into his stack. Loved it!

Got really lucky two nights ago when I won a pot in a cash game with KK............. Miracles do happen.

Seriously though, I have been moaning about losing with pocket Kings for a year now.  However one incredible hand stands out.

GUKPT £500 Deep stack at Stockton last year.......    I raise with KK and get one caller (most active and aggressive player on the table). Flop 3,5,7. I C bet and shove over his raise.Villain shows 4,6 for the straight.  I stand up jacket in hand only to see runner runner 7's to give me full house.  Been paying for that suck out ever since with KK.

I've put a few nice bad beats on people. Two that I played very badly that spring to mind:

One was a €10 tournament on Virgin, one of those with about a thousand runners, where half eliminate themselves in the first hour. With 35 left, I was 4th and had taken the laptop to bed. When I woke up I was 12/15. Okay. To cut the story short, I got to HU with slightly more chips than him. Dealt J2, can't remember if anything happened pre, but the Flop was TTJ. He bet, I shipped and immediately knew it was a huge error, cos if he doesn't have a J or T, I win the hand anyway and if he does, I'm toast. He calls with AJ, which means I don't even have counterfeiting outs. All I can hope for is a T or J for a split. Turn 2, River 2 and the tournament is over, no chance of recovery for him, €1100 to me.

Another one was a home game where I got to the flop with A7. Flop was AKx. For some reason, I didn't believe she had an A and convinced myself she had raised pre with a smaller pair. Anyway, it all got in on the Flop (yeah, I know). She had AK. Just to be helpful, someone then shows a 7 they folded. Doesn't matter - Turn 7, River 7.

Still remember this suck out I did in one of the deepstacks a year before..

Day 1 a Deepstack, dont remember the blinds but the action went like this....

UTG raised , came to me in the Button with 66, I flat called, SB and BB completed.
Flop T A 8 rainbow, check, check, UTG bets, I flat, SB flats and BB folds. Turn 6, SB ALL IN, UTG flats all in , I am ALL IN ( I cover SB but not the UTG), UTG after an agonising 3 minutes finds the fold button!

"on your backs" shouts the dealer!!

SB- AA - for flopped top set
me - 66 - for turned bottom set.

RIVER - 6 for the nasty suck out!!!
UTG folded AT!!

Actually i beat G2L's AQo with 7h8h in my first deepstack for like 6k out of 15k starting. Had the chiplead at the end of the day and spoke to the mysterious guy wandering around taking photos, I spoke to Tighty for a few mins at the end of the day. The chip lead and bursting the bubble got me into a few posts and then I met a delightful young man on the £1/2 table having finished 18th. He gave me a rubdown or two. Bloody Goulder.

ha ha. Did tighty miss that one mate. I don't remember it.

 Ahrt

Needs more love imo

Well this hand helped me to a 13 k extra payday .
GPS last.weekend 4 handed I think I had 7 Bb left when Ross boatman raised I look down
 qt. And  it was time .
                .  Flop 689 6 j
I had 18 k locked but this helped me get back in the game
And secure a good deal
ROSS HAD KK

against Kings too. mbn :)

Yes very :-)

congrats on the result mate. Good for Dtd regs

Had a small but comical one yesterday..

I peel  Qs Tc SB to a raise and a call in front.


FLOP
 Qc Ts 4c

I check, cbet £12, call, I make it £60, call, fold

TURN
 Ahrt

I'm all in, he has £120 so thats at risk - he calls turning over  Ad Qh.

RIVER
 Td


ulbro

This was especially sick since he'd been check shoved on a few hands earlier by Q10 on a board of A10K and he called with AQ.
Turn and river were Q 10

lol

Blatant brag

Not a suck out but in a $2 rebuy game last night my ak lost to AA to put me on 431 chips average 52,000 and 155 out of 155 but got lucky and ended up 7th for $435

Kerchiiiiiing

anyone else want a 7 day ban?

I wish i could add to this post but ftr all my suck outs are when i play at micro stakes level on line.

runner runner is just as fun in micro games as it is on Bobby's room

True but annoying that it only seems to happen at lower stakes. I often play higher games with a low side game at the same time. Im more likely to remember the bad beat in the big game than the suck out in the small one!

I'm good, thank you.

Lol, that was pretty funny. I'd forgot I did that until Ian Gascoigne reminded me about it like the week after. Good times at DTD - miss that place.

Too many to mention  ;whistle;

Got lucky vs Sean King 4 handed in the Monte Carlo K8cc>>>>A10dd which I think was worth around 9k. Obv since I won I totally forgot holdings so had to check back at the update.

European Poker Classic at the Vic, that long ago Sunday8pm was doing the update!

All in with AQ against Simon Zach's AK, I hit a queen on the river and went on to luckbox my way to 20k


Also had the pleasure of being interviewed by Tikay after I got knocked out in the final.