Limit Holdem
My ex-husband and I were playing $3-6-9 limit holdem poker at a Station Casino in Las Vegas. We were at separate tables, I was in a calm mediocre game and he was at a rammin jammin wild game with loose drunks capping nearly every hand pre-flop.
Here's the scenario. $1 small blind, $3 big blind, player under the gun blind strattles $6, my ex is right after the strattle and looks down at pocket Aces and makes it $9, player after him hesitates a bit, then decides to fold but flashed his hand to the dealer before he mucks. Pre-flop action continues and nearly the entire table is in to see the flop. Flop comes Ace with 2 rags and the action is great, turn comes with nothing too threatening and the pot is getting juicy. River pairs the board with 7s and my ex has Aces full of 7s and wins a monster pot (for low limit anyway).
So I bet you're wondering where's the bad beat?? Turns out the poker player who showed his hand to the dealer before he mucked had pocket 7s. If that guy stays in my ex loses the hand with Aces full to quad 7s and would have hit the bad beat jackpot! My ex's share would have been over $21,000. At the time it really depressed me and all I can think was why the heck did he raise in that position and take the chance of chasing out players when the bad beat jackpot is higher than it's ever been at over 50 grand? But now I laugh about it and love telling this story because I wouldn't have seen much of that money anyway since we're no longer married! (But you have to admit it's got to be the "baddest" beat ever hehe)
