Hi everyone, just want to share with you a little bad-beat story.
Tournament - Internet satellite for this years Aussie Millions ( just gone )
Tournament stage - Final Table
Players left - 6
Chip Stack - 160,000 ( ish )
Position - 2cnd
Prize - winner gets a seat to the Aussie Millions
Ok here goes.
Considering I never play tournament poker at the time, I was lucky enough to get to the final table of the final qualifier for this years Aussie Millions, this is what happens.
6 players left,
Im on the button, the blinds are 2 and 4k.
Im holding
( ant remember the exact suit )
Player 3 UTG calls, P4 folds, P5 raises 12k, I raise another 12k. small blind folds, bb calls, P3 calls, P5 calls.
The pot is 92k before the flop.
Flop comes -
I flop the 2cnd nuts.
Player 3 bets out 12k into a 92k pot.
Player 5, the original raiser makes it 50k to go.
I take some time trying to work out how I can get the most out of this hand ( very very confident inside at this point )
I make the call, Player 3 puts the time bank on, takes quite a while and folds.
The pot is now 180k and im heads up with the chip leader ( he had me by about 10k before the hand started )
4th Street shows a
Player 5 goes all in immediately for 104k.
The pot now is 284k, I have 94k left, If I make the call the pot is 378k.
Now at this time, a million good feelings were going through my head all in a split second. I thought, if he made the nuts on the flop, I cant really feel that bad about it, its a cooler and i'll take it on the chin.
I thought about the hand, and looked back at the hand history and took a second to see how Player 5 had played it. At this point, I started to think its possible he had the nuts, but isnt flopping quads with a pocket pair around a 400 - 1 shot ?
I thought this and called for all my stack.
River brings a
All the chips go over to him, he's made quads on the river. So he's hit runner runner on 4th street and the river to outdraw me.
Considering everything afterwards, I felt pretty sick to be perfectly honest.
Would you's have played the hand any differently than I did ?