Deliverer of Bad Beats
 

This is actually a bad beat story that worked for me last week. I was in single table sng on PP. $30 NLHE Tourney. There are 4 players left. We all have about the same number of chips. I am SB with 9 3 off. I call and all four of us are in the flop. I hit nothing on the flop (J 7 6). I check, next 2 check. Button bets 300. I was bored so I called. Next two guys fold. Turn is 8. I am open ended so I bet 300. Button goes all in. I call. His cards show with JJ. The river is a 5. I beat him with a straight. Terrible play on my part but I got lucky.

Next hand on the button I get pocket ducks. Bet to me is 800. I call. Flop is Axx. SB goes all in, BB all in. I call. SB has AJ, BB has A10. River is a 2.

Two terrible plays on my part but I won. I was embarrassed at how I played. Luckily they couldn't see me.

...you called because you were bored? wtf?

you werent open ended big guy, u were drawing dead off the flop and u were 9 to 1 dog on the turn



....yeah good job, an all in and a call, and you call with a hand thats drawing to 2 outs regardless of what sort of pairs the other players have. good play... everyone welcome this pro to the forums, we could all learn a lot from him

and.... partypoker... i shouldve known.....

-jB

You are right
 

Relax. I said I was embarrassed. It was a terrible play and I deserved to lose but got lucky. Believe me, I don't normally play that way. Thanks for the constructive criticism.

lol
 

wow i was wondering where john went to missed his rude critisizm, anyway yea bad call but oh well it happens.

with a board of J876 and a 9 in his hand, he defintely was drawing open ended to either a J or 9 high straight(or double gutted/up and down if you want to refer to it as that). and its kind of difficult to be drawing dead on the flop and then win the hand. did you pick that one up from hellmuth at the wsop this year?

Heh!
 

We all do stupid plays. Usually they happen against me, but sometimes I am the giver too. Especially in a tourney if you are low stack and already in the money why the hell not. You gotta make a move somewhere and you got lucky. Big deal. It happens all the time.

That's a pretty bad reason to call.

But it worked.