OK, here's a hand where I lost a bundle

Seems like everyone is always griping about my Hands of the Week because I always seem to win a monster pot. But then when you tell a bad beat people are always saying, NO ONE wants to hear about a bad beat! Well, you can't have it both ways. So, I'm gonna tell you about a hand I just had that cost me almost my entire bankroll on FTP. I had won a little money in Razz but I wasn't getting anywhere near clearing another level of my bonus. So I decided to play No Limit Hold Em, and let me preface by saying I have lost the most money in my career in NLHE on FTP. I've lost some decent pots on PR, but FTP is unreal.

OK, so I've got about $70, I had just won about $10 so I was feeling good. A guy in second position raises the standard 3x the BB and I'm on the button. I look down at 4♣4♠ so I call hoping to catch a set or see low cards. The guy in the BB also calls. So there's roughly $9 in the pot preflop. The flop comes 4♥6♠K♣. They both check, so I think they either missed the flop or they have a pocket pair that's at least under the king. So, if you harken back to your Super System tips, you remember that Doyle always suggests that when you have a preflop raiser and you hit your set, you should generally bet big into them because they more than likely will pay you off. So I thought about it and bet the size of the pot, which isn't exactly big, but I also don't want to lose them with this monster. Both players call! So now there's $40 in the pot. They both check again when a 5♣ peels off, and considering the preflop raise I wasn't putting anyone on a straight draw and of course there is now a flush draw. So I bet another $10 to see where I am. The BB pushes all-in for his final $30 and the initial raiser calls! So it's only $20 more to me. I HAVE to call with a set and $110 in the pot. I have like $25 left after the call. The river is an A ♣. So, there is a flush possibility and if one of these guys has pocket rockets I'm beat. He bets my final $25 and I have to call. He turns over pocket kings and the other guy shows his pocket sixes. ALL THREE OF US FLOPPED A SET! Now, tell me that's not bull! I lost like $70 on that hand and the other guy lost like $50. How many times have you seen TWO people flop a set in Hold Em, never mind THREE?!!!

So, do you want to know what the humorous part is? After the hand, a large prompt comes up on the screen and says: Congratulations! You just cleared another $20 bonus and we have credited your account!!! OH JOY!! I just lost $70 to win $20. And I had been so good up to that point too. So, is this one of those hands I should have gotten away from? In hindsight of course, but it's almost 8-to-1 that I flop a set there, never mind all of us. I put the initial raiser on like AK and thought I had him. I wasn't sure what the other guy had because he was in the BB, but it just didn't occur to me that they could have a better set until I was pot-committed.

At least I cleared my other $50 bonus on PR and had a big win there to level things off. It's all one big bankroll, and I'm going to have fluctuations, but that was a killer, and highly unlikely in the real world.

OK, so there you have it, a HUGE pot I DIDN'T win.

Am I bitter? I guess so, but that's poker, right?

Comments

[Naqoyqatsi]

I had a big losing hand (relative to what I play with) last week om Pokerstars. It cost me everything I build up at Noble Poker. I'l look it up.

[ragecg]

Thats unreal!!!...at least in a B&M room, you as the lowest set would get a bad beat bonus, lol.Izzy - aka ragecghttp://www.rageontilt.com

[Jason]

Well, just remember poker is one long game. I'd been riding some good cards, but I knew it'd be time to pay the piper soon. I've been sucked out on a couple times this week cosing me about $100 total. Including last night losing playing big slick on the button and having the SB call my 4xbb raise. I flopped TPTK on a K high flop, check, I bet, call. Trips on the turn! check, I bet hard, call! A 3 comes on the river and I push what left I had and he called! ...with a friggin' K3 giving him the boat on the river!

[wvapoker]

Set, over set, ovet set...Sounds like a tennis match. They were both trying to trap by checking to you. Not a lot of info there to put them on a hand. I would of thought my set was good even with the flush on the board. If you pushed with a set everytime in that situation you will be ahead in the long run.

[crookdimwit]

Nasty beat. Three flopped sets is pretty uncanny. If it's roughly 1 in 8 to hit a set with a wired pair, then (my math may be suspect here), sounds like it's a 1 in 512 chance (.125 x .125 x .125) of happening... (Two flopped sets would be 1 in 64?)Still, I've seen stranger, less likely things happen at a poker table (live and online). Just bad luck, and the kind of hand you're just doomed to lose money with.

[Christopher Cosenza]

Yeah, it sucked. I think we are going to talk about it on the show this week as our hand of the week to see if I should have gotten away from it.The funny thing is, the next hand I played on FTP, about two hours later, I got 44 again and flopped a set and busted someone with KK in the hole. How's that? FTP is pretty odd. I haven't been back since.

[Gambit727]

You got cold-decked. No getting away from that hand in a cash game with the odds you were getting at the end.