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Tonight I went in and played a four hour $10/$20 session at my local casino. I was up about $100 when this hand came up:Three limpers and I have the 7 :club: 7 :D on the button. I limp and six of us (including the blinds) see the flop. Flop: K :D J :) T :) . There's a bet, two calls and it comes to me on the button ... an obvious fold, so I muck. The turn comes 7 :) . Now this stuff happens all the time, you turn your two-outer, but who cares right? It's happened to us all. It gets checked around as it puts a potential flush on the board. The river card comes 7 :D . DOH! Of course, I chuckle at me folding quad 7's and let the dealer know what I just mucked. However, it gets worse. The woman who bet out on the river had turned a straight flush with the 9 :) 8 :) and if I had stayed in with my quad 7's, I would have won 50% of the $140,000 bad beat jackpot, or for you math wizards, $70,000!!!!!As most probably know, a typical bad beat jackpot gives 50% to the loser (me in this instance), 25% to the winner (Ms. Straight Flush) and 25% split among the rest of the table. After I saw she had a straight flush I stood up in utter disbelief as I had just missed out on my chance at $70,000! Of course, the rest of the table (and many in the poker room as a whole since I know quite a few people there) went crazy after hearing what happened as the jackpot hasn't been hit in months, thus causing it to be a little over $140,000. Afterwards, there was quite a bit of discussion about the hand and what I "should" have done. Hindsight is always 20/20 of course. Me, I take it in stride as I don't play to "hit a jackpot" in the first place. I did have to stop and calm myself down though as I promptly donked off $100 chasing with an 8 :) 5 :) looking for that elusive straight flush and trying to make that jackpot that was once rightfully mine! :wink: Anyways, it truly doesn't bother me that much and I'm sure I won't lose any sleep over it. However, it's times like that that I just wish poker rooms would do away with bad beat jackpots. In my case, I TRULY experienced a "bad beat" by folding my $70,000 hand. Plus, in the long run, most players lose quite a bit of money down that jackpot hole. If you win six pots an hour (an average #) with $1 going down the hole each pot, and you play 40 hours a week, that's $240/wk. OR $12,480/yr. You see how it adds up huh? I'd rather keep my $10,000 or so each year. Of course, I wouldn't be saying all this had I just made one STUPID $10 call on the flop with my measley pair of 7's with three overcards, a possible straight, and flush draw! :) P.S. BTW, I'm not looking for sympathy or anything as I know I played the hand correctly. But I do think the story is an amusing anecdote, and YES, it did actually happen. Who'd be sick enough to make this up about themselves? :!:

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Good story dude... And for what it is worth. Unavoidable. Some things are just not meant to be.It is great how poker just keeps finding new ways to kick the god guys so firmly in the nuts. Its a sick f-ing game we play.

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so is the bad beat jackpot at the B&M different then online??is it just as long as quads are beat?,. cuz i know online it is quad 8's or better,so 7's wouldnt qualify
The ACF in Paris is Aces full of anything beaten.
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so is the bad beat jackpot at the B&M different then online??is it just as long as quads are beat?,. cuz i know online it is quad 8's or better,so 7's wouldnt qualify
It varies by location and game. I've played some B+Ms where the qualifying hand in hold em is Aces full of jacks, but you have to use both of your hole cards to quallify, some where its aces full of queens, some 4k, etc. Usually the Omaha is 4K over 4K.A reason there is a high hand qualifier OL is the number of hands being played OL is so much greater than a B+M, coupled with the number of players (thousands vs. dozens). If the OL badbeat jackpot had such loose qualifying requirements as above, there would be a half dozen payouts a day.
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yea that seriously sucks man, but take solice in the fact you did play the hand right, no way your staying around with 2 bets on like a 950 - 1
well wait hold up if he called the 2 bets =20$ he would be paid 3500-1 if he hit his quads on the river ^if calculations are wrong please correct
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yea that seriously sucks man, but take solice in the fact you did play the hand right, no way your staying around with 2 bets on like a 950 - 1
well wait hold up if he called the 2 bets =20$ he would be paid 3500-1 if he hit his quads on the river ^if calculations are wrong please correct
He never saw the turn. No one is going to call a TJK flop with 77 after there is a flop bet and a raise in front of you. If he had called to see the 7 on the turn then yes I would agree to call an extra $20 to see the river.
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Afterwards, there was quite a bit of discussion about the hand and what I "should" have done. Hindsight is always 20/20 of course.
You shoulda told them that they should have checked the Flop so you could get a free card to hit it and blame the bettor for screwing you all over :club: That does suck though, 70k isn't exactly chump change and I'm sure you could have put it to good use.
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I know how it feels man. I was in Vegas about 5 years ago, and I was killing time in this no-name casino before heading to the airport. I was playing Let It Ride (with a $90,000 progressive jackpot for a royal flush) and was second to last at the table. I was dealt KQT of diamonds. I left my first bet up figuring the potential was there for a huge score but the dealer then turned over a blank so I pulled the next one back. Nothing hit for me so I'm watching the dealer flip everyone's cards over and the guy next to me (last at the table) has the A and J of diamonds. I was a little surprised by this but no too much. What killed me was that the guy then got up from the table and said "Well, I don't have enough for the 3 bets, so I'll see you guys later". I started thinking and was like "Holy shit! If he had just left 1 hand before I would have had a 33% chance of winning $90,000! Considering I've never won anything larger than a T-shirt (well, in a random contest anyway), that would have been huge!

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so is the bad beat jackpot at the B&M different then online??is it just as long as quads are beat?,. cuz i know online it is quad 8's or better,so 7's wouldnt qualify
Yeah, they recently changed it which is why it has been so difficult to hit. It used to be Aces full of 10's beaten by a better hand (both hole cards in both players hands have to play). However, they just changed it to the any quads beaten by a better hand.
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You shoulda told them that they should have checked the Flop so you could get a free card to hit it and blame the bettor for screwing you all over :club: That does suck though, 70k isn't exactly chump change and I'm sure you could have put it to good use.Incidentally, through all the discussion, no one could honestly remember who bet the flop, but they do remember there being a bet. No one wanted to admit that they had bet and got me out as table share for each of the other five people (we were only playing seven-handed at the time) would have been around $7,000. Of course, HAD it been checked around on the flop, I'd have seen the turn, hit my set, and been locked in to see the river, with my "ten" outs. In fact, on the turn, it got checked around and since I was on the button, I know I would have been dumb enough to bet and had I been raised, I for sure would have seen the river for one more bet. Uh oh, here I go dreaming again about what could have been.

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yea that seriously sucks man, but take solice in the fact you did play the hand right, no way your staying around with 2 bets on like a 950 - 1
Getting runner-runner 7's is 2/45 x 1/44 = 1/990 = +/- .1%
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The worst feeling in poker has to be getting beat by this guy:fm16_1.jpg
could someone please tell me who the fuck is this guy? I've seen him on another pic, but I have no idea who he is?? if there's a story about this guy or a link, please post it, I want to check it outteneight
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The worst feeling in poker has to be getting beat by this guy:fm16_1.jpg
could someone please tell me who the censored is this guy? I've seen him on another pic, but I have no idea who he is?? if there's a story about this guy or a link, please post it, I want to check it outteneight
http://www.syncmag.com/article2/0,1895,1763272,00.aspplus he won the wcoop main last night. 577k or something.
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