Warning! This is a Bad Beat story. No...this is a Horrendous Beat story, so read on at your own peril!
Playing in a 10 person Sit 'n Go on Party Poker I was playing well and taking down my fair share of pots. Early in the tourny with only 9 people left I have 3/4 my original buy-in chips which is below average but not in critical short stack levels yet. I am the short stack on the table however.
I'm UTG when dealt KcKh blinds are $30/$60 and I have $1560 left the chip leader has $4113. Action follows...
- I raise 3x the BB to $180
- UTG + 1 Folds
- UTG +2 has $1938 calls $180
- UTG +3 has $3028 (second chip leader) and raises to $300
- 5 players (including blinds fold to me)
At this point I'm wondering what UTG3 could possibly have that he re-raised after UTG2 called so need to figure out how big a hand he has (after all he only min-raised) and re-raise to $900 (this virtually pot-commits me but as the short stack I decided I was going to live or die by these K's).
UTG2 calls again (I was a little surprised by this but he is a loose/passive player so I guess you can expect someone like that to keep playing pre-flop no matter what)
UTG3 re-raises again to $1500 making me suspect he has either QQ or AA with an outside chance he has me tied with KK.
With only $900 left and a 50/50 shot at being way out ahead, I have the pot odds to go all-in and do so, raising the bet to $1560.
Once again, I'm baffled by UTG2 as he calls...again followed by UTG3 who calls.
Flop hits the table with a pot of $4770 which will make the winner the chip leader at the table and it is a rainbow pair 6dTcTs which given the betting pre-flop should have missed everyone.
UTG2 checks, UTG3 bets $400 and UTG2 calls to go all-in.
Cards are revealed and I am in a monster position!
My KcKh up against UTG2's Jc8c (what the hell is he doing in this pot?) and UTG3's QcQd
What are our odds you might ask? (pre-flop/post-flop)
- Me: 67.158% / 85.825%
- UTG2: 15.670% / 5.426%
- UTG3: 17.172% / 8.749%
This is one of those dream situations where you have high expectations of a win and two running cards turn that dream into a true nightmare. The worst part is when the two runners pay off the poor play of a donk who then thinks he's a good player and now has the chips to basically fold into the money.
The runners? 6c9c giving donkey boy with Jc8c who should never have been in the pot a flush to crack the KK's and QQ's.
If ever you are playing SuperSteveo on Party Poker, kiss your lucky stars. He's going to pay off your monsters with flush draws every time! Unless he gets lucky and hits his 5% hand against your 85%!
