Bad Beat Contest: SECOND PLACE ENTRY
Here’s a pretty cold beat story from Dan Port, winner of second place in our bad beat contest, to receive a World Poker Tour gift pack including a backpack, deck of cards, keychain and a few other small things. From Dan:
Anyway, this happened online while I was still in my
first year or so playing on Royal Vegas Poker.
$10 rebuy tourney, 7 people left. I’m second in chips
at about 150,000, chip leader is up over 200,000. I
pick up AA in the big blind. Chip leader raises in
mid position, pumping it to about 30,000 or so, which
is a pretty big raise at that point (I don’t recall
what blinds were at exactly, but I’m guessing
something like 3,000-6,000).
I flat call and don’t reraise for a couple of reasons.
One: this guy has played like an absolute idiot and
gotten lucky throughout the tournament and I’m not
going to risk getting AA cracked when I’m in excellent
chip position to win the tournament. Two: I had
already had aces cracked once that tournament by going
all-in on a three-suited board and I wanted to at
least see what flopped before I pushed in.
Flop comes A-7-7, which is as good as you can hope for
with pocket rockets. I check to him because I’m
pretty sure he’ll bet at it (he’s a maniac) and I’ll
get paid off when I push him out with an all-in. As
expected, he bets out at the flop, like 80,000, either
repping an ace or assuming I have nothing. I go
all-in over the top and he calls within a half second.
Cards exposed: he has KK, which is a far more legit
hand than I gave him credit for. Still, the CALL for
most of his chips makes absolutely no sense. Even A2
beats him at this point. I guess he may have thought
that I was bluffing at it or had a lower pocket pair
like JJ or something, but it still seemed like a
moronic call to me. Whatever, I’m getting paid off,
right?
Right?
A-7-7…
K…
K
The result mystified me too much to even get angry. I
put nothing in the chat box and just stared blankly at
my monitor for almost ten minutes as other players
typed things like “rigged” and “gg”. Seventh place
paid six hundred dollars less than first place, by the
way, so I certainly lost out on at least a few hundred
dollars with this bad beat.
I’ve never seen runner runner quads before or since,
in any circumstance, and certainly not to beat aces
full. Even thinking about it now makes me a bit
nauseous.
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