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In my opinion, however, the worst ever bad beat took place in a hand between Matt Affleck and Jonathan Duhamel at the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. Let's set the stage for this bad beat. There are two tables left in the 2010 World Series of Poker main event. Determined to change his fortunes, he continued at it, but lost a further $2 million. He hasn’t been seen playing much poker since. Even one of poker’s biggest ever winners struggled at the tables for some time. After earning over $21.45 million in live tournaments, Ivey went on to lose over $5 million of that, mostly in 8. Undoubtedly the worst beat ever/How to lose with a Royal Flush Rake must reach $.25 for hands to qualify for the BBJ, so $5.00 pot. Stage #: Holdem No Limit $0.50 - 2009-03-20 23:56:45 (ET). The following is a listing of all current 32 National Football League (NFL) teams ranked by their combined win-loss record percentage, accurate as of the end of Super Bowl LIV. Ties are registered as a half win and a half loss when calculating the win-loss percentage.
The final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker $50,000 Poker Players Championship produced quite possibly the worst bad beat in poker history as Bryce Yockey saw a 99.843% hand turn into dust when Josh Arieh beat him on the final draw in 2-7 Triple Draw.
Nick Schulman coined the bad beat that Arieh put on Yockey, “The bad beat to end all bad beats,” before it happened and to fully grasp the situation you have to watch the clip.
Yockey started with the second strongest hand in the game, which has a 1 in 2,548 chance of occurring while Arieh needed three draws to beat him and make the only possible combination that would do so. A crazy detail about this hand is that the only path for Arieh to the winning hand was for him to make a straight first before he could draw to the perfect 7-5 low.
“This is the worst beat I’ve ever seen in a televised tournament,” Schulman said, as Yockey made his departure from the tournament in fourth place. Yockey collected $325,989 for his efforts after which John Esposito, Phil Hui, and Josh Arieh continued to battle for the $1,099,311 first prize. Watch the full final table of this event on PokerGO right now.
Understanding 2-7 Triple Draw
In the game of Limit 2-7 Triple Draw, the goal is to make the worst possible five-card hand without a straight or a flush. The best hand in this game, as shown in this video, is 7-5-4-3-2 followed by 7-6-4-3-2. In this game, there are three draws during which you can ask for as many new cards as you want.
Bad Beats in Texas Hold’em
Bad beats in poker are common and every player who’s played a game or two will have seen his or her aces disappear like snow in the bright Las Vegas sun when a king on the river gives your opponent three of a kind.
To provide some context on how crazy Yockey’s hand was, let’s draw some parallels with No Limit Texas Hold’em. Aces versus kings before the flop is an 81.06% favorite, a number that increases to 91.62% after a blank flop and 95.45% on the turn. Having only two cards to improve with the river to come is still a 4.55% chance of winning!
In an even worse scenario, the worst of two sets on the flop has 4.34% with two cards to come and that number is reduced to 2.27% with only the river left to make four of a kind. For some more context, winning with ace-king offsuit versus ace-king offsuit has a 2.17% chance but in that case, of course, you are 95.65% to casually split the pot!
Ever played so wild that you ended up all in with deuce-three offsuit against pocket aces? Well, you still have a 13.3% chance to win the hand before the flop! After a random flop where your only remaining winning outs are running cards, however, you have a 1.52% chance to win and even that is still a lot better than having just 0.16% as Josh Arieh did!
Click this link to see the Twitter conversation about this hand in which some big name poker pros chime in on how unlikely this runout truly was.
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I kind of expected such a day. After all I had moved up to $25-50 NL tables and a 6 buy-in downswing was inevitable. I’m happy though since I didn’t play bad and most of the money were lost due to bad beats. Here are a couple of interesting daily and monthly graphs and stats, along with a couple of my worst bad beats I experienced yesterday.
Well, in fact I didn’t lose 6 buy-ins at $5,000NL tables. I lost just 4 but I lost about 6 buy-ins at $2,000NL. Fortunately I won 3 buy-ins at $1,000NL but also lost 3 buy-ins at $600NL. Although I made $3,500 in the first 300 hands of the day, I finally lost $30,000 when the 5,560th hand was completed. That’s when I decided to call it a day.
As far as my EV graph concerning, it doesn’t seem that good, being just one grand above zero in the end. That tells me I didn’t put my money in well enough. On the other hand though, the blue line is devastating. I should have NOT lost $22,500 of that money. My expected daily loss should have been about $7,500. It might not be that good either, but comparing to the 30 grand I lost, I would very much prefer that!
Yesterday was not the only day of the month that I was unlucky. January hasn’t been that good in terms of luck, since I’m running many buy-ins below my expected EV. When you are expected to win $30,000 just from all-ins and you end up losing $13,000, that can’t be good neither for your bankroll, nor for the monthly winnings. Obviously I’m a loser in January and my self-confidence has almost hit rock bottom. But I know it will turn around eventually, it just one of those days when you run bad, the cards set you up (set over set, and so on) and you can’t win a single pot. I am just looking forward to the days when you hit everything! Because I know they’ll come again.
Now for the bad beats. My worst bad beat was certainly my AQ vs AJ hand when the Jack hit on river losing me a $10,000 pot.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $50.00 BB (6 handed)
saw flop saw showdown
SB ($9241)
Jimmakos (BB) ($5869)
UTG ($5000)
MP ($8492)
CO ($5000)
Button ($7684)
Preflop: Jimmakos is BB with Q
, A
2 folds, CO bets $150, 2 folds, Jimmakos raises to $550, CO calls $400
Flop: ($1125) 8
, A
, 2
(2 players)
Jimmakos bets $600, CO calls $600
Turn: ($2325) 9
(2 players)
Jimmakos bets $1350, CO raises to $3850 (All-In), Jimmakos calls $2500
River: ($10025) J
(2 players, 1 all-in)
Total pot: $10025 Rake: $3
Results:
Jimmakos had Q
, A
(one pair, Aces).
CO had J
, A
(two pair, Aces and Jacks).
Outcome: CO won $10022
A classic bad beat also happened at $2,000NL when my Aces ran into Kings and went all-in preflop. Guess what happened. No, his kings didn’t hit a set, my aces hit a set in fact. If only they hadn’t.
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $20.00 BB (6 handed)
saw flop saw showdown
Button ($3373)
Jimmakos (SB) ($2674)
BB ($3350)
UTG ($2000)
MP ($2030)
CO ($3637)
Preflop: Jimmakos is SB with A
, A
3 folds, Button bets $60, Jimmakos raises to $220, 1 fold, Button raises to $480, Jimmakos raises to $900, Button raises to $3373 (All-In), Jimmakos calls $1774 (All-In)
Worst Poker Loss Ever Caught
Flop: ($5368) 10
, J
, Q
(2 players, 2 all-in)
Turn: ($5368) A
(2 players, 2 all-in)
River: ($5368) 7
(2 players, 2 all-in)
Worst Poker Loss Ever Win
Total pot: $5368 Rake: $3
Results:
Button had K
, K
(straight, Ace high).
Jimmakos had A
, A
(three of a kind, Aces).
Outcome: Button won $5365
The final bad beat was when AQ beat my Kings. Standard…
PokerStars No-Limit Hold’em, $20.00 BB (6 handed)
saw flop saw showdown
Worst Poker Loss Ever Best
CO ($3072.50)
Button ($3086.50)
Jimmakos (SB) ($2414)
BB ($2000)
UTG ($4766)
MP ($1990)
Preflop: Jimmakos is SB with K
, K
2 folds, CO bets $60, Button calls $60, Jimmakos raises to $280, 1 fold, CO raises to $560, 1 fold, Jimmakos raises to $960, CO raises to $3072.50 (All-In), Jimmakos calls $1454 (All-In)
Flop: ($4908) 5
, A
, 9
(2 players, 2 all-in)
Turn: ($4908) J
(2 players, 2 all-in)
River: ($4908) A
(2 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: $4908 Rake: $3
Results:
Jimmakos had K
, K
(two pair, Aces and Kings).
CO had Q
, A
(flush, Ace high).
Outcome: CO won $4905
Worst Poker Loss Ever Wins
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