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In some situations, players get confused between losing to a bad beat or getting outplayed. Sometimes players are too proud to admit they got outplayed and consider there misfortune as a bad beat. There is a distinct difference between the two... Simply, a bad beat is a hand that you lose when you were a big favorite to win. Your opponents odds were poor, but he/she out draws you. Usually a bad beat occurs when both opponents are all-in or pot committed preflop, during the flop, or on the turn, and the underdog with the worse hand outdraws luckily and makes a stronger hand than the opponent expected to win... For example, Player A goes all in with 8-3 unsuited and Player B calls with 9-9. Player A is a 4 to 1 underdog; even if he hits his top pair, eights, he loses. The flop comes down 8-3-3, the next two cards are rags... Player A has a full house, and Player B is left crying. Famous Bad Beat Stories Brent Carter VS Barbara Enright
As we detail in our list of top Women poker players Barbara Enright is still the only woman to have made the final table in the WSOP's Main Event. This is despite television's insistence that Annie Duke has achieved the most. Not only did she place 5th, but she got knocked out after a tremendous bad beat. Here's how it went down.....Everybody had passed and Barbara was in the big blind with pocket eights. Brent Carter (a well known poker pro) was in the small blind with a 6-3 and he completed the blind. Barbara then moved all-in (with a medium sized stack!) and Brent calls risking all of his chips. Brent flopped both a 6 and a 3 for two pair, knocking Barbara out of the WSOP in 5th place. Ouch! Chris Moneymaker VS Phil Ivey
Two players that we mentioned above collide at around 4am late into Day 4. The total player count is now down to 10, and the next one knocked out lives with the fact that he missed the final table of the world’s greatest poker tournament by one spot. Phil Ivey started out with pocket 9s, and Chris Moneymaker started with Ace, Queen. Moneymaker started the action by raising, and Ivey just calls (Phil starts out being about a 6 to 5 favorite). The flop brings two queens giving Moneymaker trips and Chris suddenly becomes a 12.5 to 1 favorite. Chris keeps Phil in the hand, however, and guess what falls on the turn… a nine! Moneymaker makes a huge bet of $200,000, and Ivey who now has a full house announces he’s “ALL IN”. Moneymaker confidently calls building the pot to over one million dollars. Both players show their hands, and Moneymaker remembers the same pain in his stomach that Humberto Brenes delivered just the day before. Could he get out of this dilemma as he had with Brenes, is it possible? The dealer turns over the last card, an ACE! Moneymaker triumphs again, administering Phil Ivey a blow he will never forget, re-sucking Phil’s full house with a bigger full house. Famous Outplaying Stories
Phil Hellmuth VS Carlos Mortensen
When the final table was down to five players a big hand came up between the world champion from 1989 Phil Hellmuth and Carlos Mortensen. The blinds were $15,000-$30,000 and the ante was $6,000. Making the pot $75,000 before the cards were dealt. Hellmuth limped into the pot, Phil Gordon limped in from the button, Carlos Mortensen limped in from the small blind and Stan Schrier in the big blind checked. The four-way pot had $150,000 in it before the flop. The flop came down Q-9-4. Mortensen checked, Schrier checked, Hellmuth bet $60,000 (less then half of the pot), Gordon folded, Mortensen raised $200,000 and Schrier took about two minutes to fold because he hadn’t realized it was his turn to act. The pot now had $410,000 in it and Phil Hellmuth quickly announced that he was moving all-in with his last $900,000. Mortensen called and the hands were turned up on the table. Hellmuth held a Q-T and Mortensen had a Q-J, giving both players top pair but Hellmuth had the weaker kicker. At this moment Hellmuth had 3 outs to a T for a two pair to beat Mortensen. On the turn a J hit, giving Hellmuth an open-ended straight draw and Mortensen top two pair. The J helped Hellmuth because it gave him 8 new outs, but killed his 3 outs to the T. He needed an 8 or a K to hit on the river to make a straight. The A came on the river and sent Phil Hellmuth out in fifth place. Stu Ungar VS Mel Judah
When the final table was down to three players (Stu Ungar, Mel Judah and John Strzemp) the following hand came up. Mel Judah made a $60,000 raise on the button with the 10-9, Stu “the Kid” Ungar called from the small blind with the Q-J and Strzemp folded in the big blind. The flop came J-3-10, giving Ungar top pair and Judah second pair. Ungar checked and Judah checked behind him. On the turn the 2 hit and Ungar bet $80,000 at the pot. Judah called the $80,000 and raised it another $162,000, putting himself all-in. Ungar thought for a while but called the $162,000 raise. When the hands were turned over everyone could see that Judah was drawing to 5 outs with only one more card to come. On the river the K hit and sent Judah out in third place. Ungar eventually went on to win the tournament and his third $10,000 WSOP title. Calculate Your Odds Automatically |
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