I know the cardinal rule of poker is nobody wants to hear bad beat stories.  I agree with this for the most part.  But I got three in one night, so I feel I can rant.

I’m the chipleader in a live tournament last night.  I get AA.  I’m first to act, so I slowplay, hoping for a raise (the table had been raising with some regularity).  Nobody does, but I get the two blinds.  Flop is 10 8 7.  I raise, I get a re-raise, I push him all in.  OF COURSE, he hit the straight on the flop.

Even still I have plenty of chips – I’m in the high end still.  We play for a while, and I’m now pretty much in the middle of 7 people left (they paid top 4).  One of the smallstacks pushes all-in.  It’s about half my chips, but I have AQ suited.  He flips over AJ (I’m a 72% favorite to win)  He not only flops the jack, he flops two.  I’m down to 1100 chips.

TWO HANDS LATER, I have JJ.  Someone raises to 1000 before me, I push my last bit in and he calls.  He flips up 10 10  (I’m an 82% favorite to win)  The very first card turned over is a 10.

Then I get home to find out that the three major online poker sites are done, the feds took them over.  Looks like I’m out $530 that I had in there.

Good day for poker.