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http://fullist.co.uk/2014/07/poker-players-loses-1-million-unfortunate-game-ever/
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Ouch. Proves the adage that if you see enough eventually you see everything. I'll bet if that had been online the computer would have gone out of the window. Maybe even with the player following it.
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A daily occurance on some of the online sites although not for a million dollars.
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prob only had 10% of himself
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Eeternaloptimist, I used to hold tournaments and I dealt 2 royal flushes against my own hand in the same night. I've never had one in all my days out of many hundreds of thousands of hands. When the turn was a heart in that tournament yer man must have been thinking bloody hell this is not looking too good
 I've no idea what the odds were for a heart flush to turn up against AA but it must be huge. |
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I've never seen that before Dotchinite.
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I'm not your odds man or an expert in poker slippy but at the time of going all in each had a 2% chance of the win according to the stats. A long shot but not exactly Haley's comet flashing past your front window with Halle Berry sat naked on top twerking her bum cheeks in your direction kind of long shot.
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Im not one for going all in on aces, you dont have that many outs even though you may have best hand.
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Nor me I.S. that hand has kicked me in the stotts many times.
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The tie is 95.65% certain so not so big agaist as EET says as he paint's a lovely picture.
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I forgot to mention her puffing on that Havana with her flaps. Silly me. I always leave some detail out.
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How about this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbSspZVhxLo Obviously they all have to be dicks, even the woman. |
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to be fair it was a 1 million dollar buy-in.
its only like losing £2 on a £2 buy-in. if you can afford a 1 million dollar buy-in, its no big deal losing it. |
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Yes granted bob, I get grizzled if I lose 50 bucks. That was a cruel beat though.
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I don't think it was a million dollar by in sideshow. You were seeing the later stages of the comp there with big money swilling around from the hundreds of guys who'd stuck their entrance fee in initially. Id guess it was actually a 25,000 or 50,000 buy in initially.
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Not sure thats true bob, unless he was a billionaire.
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Nothing spectacular there, unlike this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKsV6oqZW38 |
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OK I'll have a look at that liamcol.
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Playing at a cash table a few years back when I was headsup against my opponent. I had spun up my initial $200 to over $2k. I had KK, him JJ. Flop KJ4, turn 6. We ended up all in (obviously - over $4,000 in the middle.)
He hit the 1 outer  I played in a WSOP event ion the Carribean and on the bubble ($8k minimum) a bigger stack shoved all in v the BB. The BB stood up and shouted 'I CALL!' He promptly slammed his AA on the table. He got rivered v 10J! Nobody could look at him in the eye as he stood there shaking like a sh1tting dog almost in tears. . Of course deep down we were all delighted but had to mumble, 'ul mate'!! |
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Reminds me of the quote in Gladiator where Marcus said that death smiles on us all and our only choice is whether we smile back. I got nutted in similar circumstances in a friendly game a few years back having tried to chop the legs from under the guy who I thought was my main opponent and who took my stack and blew the rest away. The later cards in that game folded me in half having been a strongish favourite and I wanted the ground to swallow me up. There were about nine guys at the table and I only knew a couple. It wasn't crazy money but it was enough to hurt. As I made my excuses to leave I went around to every player and shook their hand with a huge grin on my face and wished them luck. I felt like crying when I walked out but I was walking whether or not because I didn't even have the bus fare home. My only consolation as it pi55ed it down on me is that I figured every guy at that table would have thought what a cool motherfrucker I was as I took it in my stride and they would have made a mental note that I was there for the squeeze with the juice not that important and in the long run that would give me an edge against every one of them.
Didn't stop me getting a soaking walking home though. |
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charwell. 30 Jul 14 22:42 Playing at a cash table a few years back when I was headsup against my opponent. I had spun up my initial $200 to over $2k. I had KK, him JJ. Flop KJ4, turn 6. We ended up all in (obviously - over $4,000 in the middle.) He hit the 1 outer I played in a WSOP event ion the Carribean and on the bubble ($8k minimum) a bigger stack shoved all in v the BB. The BB stood up and shouted 'I CALL!' He promptly slammed his AA on the table. He got rivered v 10J! Nobody could look at him in the eye as he stood there shaking like a sh1tting dog almost in tears. . Of course deep down we were all delighted but had to mumble, 'ul mate'!! The only word I understood in that lot was 'Carribean'. Guess who doesn't play poker? |
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very funny posts by Eeternaloptimist.
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oh yeah. well he didnt really lose 1 million then did he. cant lose what you never had. its not like he was guaranteed to win or owt, he most probably would have lost eventually anyway.
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It was indeed a million dollar buy-in at the WSOP.
. http://ftw.usatoday.com/2014/07/world-series-of-poker-big-one-1-million-dollar-buy-in-aces-vs-aces-bad-beat So like ssb said, if you can afford the buy-in, then surely you can afford to lose it. Horrible way to lose though. |
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those matching pairs won by a flush showdowns were 10 a penny on betfair poker years ago
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I''ll never forget a 3 card session back in 1969 when holding three eights I was beaten by three jacks.......never played the game again
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2xqaxWQO79g
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I've told this story before on here about a hand I had in a game online, not sure if it was on BF site,
as it was about 6/7years ago now. It was a no limit 50p blind game, 9 at the table I was dealt KK Flop KKA I go all in, hopefully to reduce the numbers. 2 players call. Turn card 6c (iirc) 1 player folds River ACE! The other guy was holding AA That was the last time I played online poker. The number of bad beats I was getting with stupid regularity made me question the randomness of the game. I remain to this day quite convinced it is not as straight as it's made out to be. |
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^ ^
Happened to me twice in the space of a month about 10 years ago. Can't recall the website of the top of my head but never played on it after the second time. Twice flopped 4 of a kind, twice beaten. First time pocket 9s lost to runner runner Jacks Second time held pocket J's, Flop was JJA, Then a second ace, then another ace on the river. Other guy had A5 off suit. |
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WTF does all this mean?
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Don't twist if you have 16 or more.
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