Poker Ustmib » Bad Beats

Aces vs. Kings vs. Queens

USTMIB — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:08:14 +0000

… Queens obviously end up winning the Pot, what would you expect on PokerStars.

Gotta love those if you’re the one holding AA.

Knocked out of a tournament with back to back Aces

USTMIB — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:21:48 +0000

I don’t feel like talking about this for too long, but I couldn’t just ignore this one on the blog as it has never ever happened to me before and I am begging to the Lord that it will never ever happen to me again in the future.

I was in the chip lead of a LIVE tournament (€50 freeze-out, no limit Hold’em) with 16 players left. Two tables. I was dealt aces on the button and raised it up 3BB. My opponent, somewhat middle-stacked went all in behind me and I called him down. He had KQ suited and made his flush on the turn. I had the ace for his flush, but the river didn’t do me justice.

That was bad. But the hand after, I got aces again.

I raised it up again in late position (I was no longer chip leader, but was still above average) and one of the players that covered me re-raised me the to about 12BB. I insta-shoved hoping he’d just lay it down giving me a decent pot. He called though. He had pocket sevens and told me “I thought you were steaming”. I was steaming, but that’s something else, right. Anyway; dude spikes a seven right on the flop…

I was so sick I almost threw up, especially when the sevens guy started declaring how awesome that was and how bad I played my aces knowing he would call me thinking I was steaming. No sh*t sherlock, as if I minded a call by someone 4-to-1 behind.

Donkball ended up winning the thing. Pretty bad freaking beat.

Over 1,5 Million Players on PKR

USTMIB — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:46:24 +0000

Great news from the PKR community — they’ve crossed the 1,500,000 player milestone! For a young poker website such as PKR, that’s huge — and even though the majority of these players are playmoney players, it’s still a lot.

Anyway, I hope I can soon review the PKR website myself — right now, I believe a bad beat screenshot to show the POWER OF THE SOFTWARE is a good idea.

Click the thumbnail for a full view, it’s YUMMY!