AK...phooey

[Robbie Robb]

Not really a BAD Bad Beat story, but a beat none-the-less...

So there I am today, playing in the 315pm UB $5 DE to the SCNII in January. I've done fairly well all game. I didn't end up having to rebuy at all and passed on the final addon. I managed to make it final table (in the interests of full disclosure, there were only 3 tables that, through alternates, saw 43 different people make a run at it). At that point, I'm as happy as a pig...well, you get the idea - I'm happy that I made is this far as people are dumping $5 after $5 into rebuys (one guy I counted 9 rebuys).

I continue to play my heart out and actually make it to heads up. I'm SERIOUSLY shortstacked at ~42K to opponents ~120K. I catch AKo and go all-in. He calls and shows J9s. The flop comes AJK. SWEET! Two pair. If I remember correctly, it was Ad so it did open up a possible flush for him, but I'm already all-in so not much to do but hold my breath and watch.

Then came the turn....J

Then came the river....nada. My world came crashing down upon me (well, okay, not really - like I said, I was stoked to have made it to final table). I walked away with $30 so I still felt accomplished, but man...if I could have doubled up off of him on that hand, I might have a completely different bad beat hand to tell you about