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No one likes listening to a bad beat story.
No one wants to hear about how you played it perfectly and got
unlucky.
Can you please shut up?
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Homer.
We got an a-in.
But let's be honest, there's a cruel twisted part of us that
love seeing bad beats on TV.
And here's the top five we're still talking about.
Well you just want to rub salt in my wound every time.
Show some class, show some class.
Our 5, it's Chris Moneymaker vs. Jason Mercier, at the NAPT
Venetian Bounty Shootout.
Jason has a reputation for always getting there,
but on this occasion he gets a taste of his own medicine.
Mercier with the kings.
Come on.
Moves all in He has both Glance and Moneymaker covered.
Glance folds.
I'll call.
And a call from Moneymaker.
Moneymaker at risk and behind.
He started the hand with almost 40 big blinds,
and it looks like ace-king suited might be his last hand.
Jason Mercier in position to collect Moneymakers' bounty
as Moneymaker exits the scene.
He should have to stay at the table.
Brett Favre doesn't heave one up for grabs,
and run to the sideline, and drink some Gatorade,
while waiting to see if it's intercepted.
The flop is 10, tre, jack, two clubs.
Wow.
Moneymaker now favored with a royal flush draw
and one over card.
Yeah, Moneymaker might win the hand now.
It's better than an ace.
Third card, 8 of Spades, Mercier dodges trouble.
He's now favored to knock out Moneymaker.
Well, Chris now should be halfway to his car,
because he is about to lose this hand.
River card, Queen of Clubs, are you kidding?
A royal flush for Chris Moneymaker
If you're going to win, that's how you win.
No you stay at the table and watch your fate.
That's how you win.
At least Jason took it well.
And table demeanor counts for a lot.
It may even help keep karma on your side.
Mikel Habb.
Our Number 4.
Mr. Haab finds himself in the 2016 Aussie Millions Main
Event with one of the easiest decisions in poker.
Oh my god, is he going to really--
Oh Lord.
Oh no.
Fail fish.
Oh my Lord.
Oh no, not like this.
Oh my god he's slow rolling Sam.
Oh my Lord, what in the world is going on?
Oh my god.
This, please a 6.
I mean, I don't usually root for players,
but I mean maybe he is truly thinking about this?
Oh.
Mikel makes the call.
You can see Sam is kind of disgusted here.
Come on.
[INAUDIBLE] [CLAPPING]
Please.
Oh my god.
I have never called for any kind of cards in any situation,
but come on, 6 for justice.
That's kind of a brutal slow roll there.
I mean, I mean, oh my god.
We're going to need a 6 here.
Sam needs a 6, and only a 6, or she's
lose a huge percentage of her stack.
10 Sam needs to find a 6 and a 6 only here.
Let's see a river card.
Oh my god.
Oh, 6 on the river.
Ship it to mamma.
Oh my Lord.
Oh, 6 on the river.
Oh my god.
Oh, those poker gods could be cruel when you provoke them.
And sometimes they have a wicked sense of humor.
Case in point, Number 3.
On the Battle of the PCA 2014 Super High Roller,
five short stocks watch on as Vanessa Selbst and Dan
Shak go to war.
Ace, jack for Vanessa Selbst in the small blind.
The chip leader calls.
Even with a huge stack, Vanessa playing this cautiously.
Dan Shak, with 9, 10 of Clubs in the big blind, and he
calls as well, for an additional 60,000.
He's giving great immediate pot odds, with suited connectors,
and he's actually the favorite three ways.
Three way to the flop, which kids Vanessa top pair,
second pair for Dan Shak, plus a flush draw, plus a back-door
straight draw.
Oh boy, this could get uglier than Kuato from Total Recall.
Well it doesn't look like Vanessa
intends to play in flow.
She leads for 165,000.
400.
Dan Shak raises to 400,000, gets an insta-fold
from Antonio Esfandiari.
I don't see Vanessa folding top pair, top kicker here.
Call
She calls.
There is now 1.25 million in the middle.
Huge pot building here on the bubble,
and there are three guys at the table running on vapor.
The board pairs on the turn.
Vanessa now a 3 to 1 favorite.
She checks.
All-in.
And Shak shoves.
OMG.
ICM.
Suicide.
I commend Dan Shak for having stones so big they are now
considered the islands of the Bahamas,
but this bluff is risking crazy amounts of real money
against a person with a stupid strong range.
I call.
Vanessa calls.
And Dan Shak is at risk of bubbling the super-high roller.
What a ridiculous sweat.
What an unnecessarily huge pot.
Dan Shak does have 11 outs.
He can hit a club or a 10 on the river.
It's a 10.
That was not supposed to happen.
He's doing a victory lap.
He's coming back.
Dan Shak doubles up, and takes the chip lead
from Vanessa Selbst.
Ah, I just didn't think you'd up.
Dan, don't say anything.
Don't.
Wow.
That, too late.
I just lost like two million chips.
I lost two million chips.
Dan got me on the river, yeah.
He pushed on the turn, and I called, and he had 11 outs.
Yeah.
Selbst squashed.
But sometimes it's the guy dishing out the bad beat
who looks devastated.
At number 2, Olivier Busquet tries
to hide his embarrassment in the EPT 11 Barcelona Super High
Roller.
Olivier Busquet is on the button, with ace-deuce suited.
He has fewer than 20 big blinds.
For Olivier's sake.
I hope he's just thinking about flatting.
All in.
He shoves.
He wasn't just thinking about flatting.
Klein folds the small blind.
Trickett folds the big, and Reichardt's calling.
That's bad.
And Olivier Busquet is at risk.
Reichardt's kings.
A 68% favorite.
Is Olivier Busquet going to finished eighth in a Super High
Roller again?
That would be brutal.
Oh, Reichardt almost flops him dead.
More than almost.
He's got less than 1%.
8,8 to win.
Ace, Ace.
8,8.
8, 8.
Or ace, ace.
Oh boy.
Busquet now has two outs.
With great television.
Is that what you would think?
If it happened, you'd be like, well at least it
was good television?
That'd be so sick.
Sick doesn't cover it.
Busquet needs another ace to survive.
And it is another ace.
So you're saying there's a chance?
Unbelievable.
Less than 1% on the flop, and runner,
runner, to make a better full house.
You're thinking, what is this?
I've never seen that.
Yeah, obviously.
They're putting the kings away.
Olivier runs ace-deuce into kings,
and gets there in incredible fashion.
It's exactly the look I used to give when I make
a great catch in the outfield.
You know it was all luck, but you're happy for the applause
anyway.
And at Number 1, it's the bad beat the felt so good to watch.
From Season One of the Big Game, it's the poker brand himself.
Phil Hellmuth Jr. taking not one, but three bad beats.
Wow, what a sick hand this is.
Four ways.
I'm not ignoring anyone, Next pot is like a freeroll for me.
The danger of smooth calling with kings, Ernest
has led three other players into this pot.
The flop, 9, 10, 9, trip 9s for Hellmuth.
Phil has flopped the Hellmuth out of it.
Our loose cannon, Ernest is in big trouble
if he can't get away from this, and honestly Chris I
don't see how he'll be able to.
17,000
Bets 17.
Phil bets 17,000.
It's a little like me, why you bet so much ?
Ernest Is actually asking the right question,
but isn't looking for an answer.
Wow
All he can see are those two kings.
36,000
I love you Ernest.
I'll try it again.
I love those king.
Doyle folds.
I was going to raise.
So sick.
Tony G's out.
20,000 one.
Wow
This is almost certainly disaster for our loose cannon.
20,000.
What are you going to do if I move in, are you going to call?
Phil of course, I have no choice but, to my brother.
You got aces or kings or something, or what?
Man if i had aces or kings man, I'd be the man right now,
wouldn't I?
I love you Ernest.
You're the greatest.
This is why this show is so fun.
All right, I guess I'm all in.
I call.
Kings.
Ok, all in and a call.
I got three 9s.
You got to kidding me.
OK that's what I thought.
What were you slow rolling for?
Man.
Maybe a 10,4.
I mean, he just was so happy.
That was so unreal.
That was torture.
I didn't mean to slow roll.
Hold on, how many times are you want to deal it?
Oh, hey, thanks for asking me.
Three times?
Huh?
Three times?
Yeah, run it three.
Three times.
Yeah, that'll work.
You might win one of those three.
Gee whiz, man.
Wow, and you'd straddled and everything, that was perfect.
You made it so much before the flop with those 9s.
Our loose cannon has one foot out the door.
You want to deal it four times?
When you asked him, you're going to call if I go all in,
and he said yes, what percent of you
didn't believe that he was giving the straight dope there
with that little bit left?
Wasn't it like a--
What little bit money?
He had 50,000 left.
That's slow, that's one of the worst slow rolls
I've in forever.
No, that's not a slow roll.
When you know he's going to call because he says it?
Phil Laak, why don't you just stay out of it?
Why don't you stay out of it?
Because I'm right here.
Because, Phil, you are so--
you've been so far out of line to me,
and every time we've played, and I'm just sick of it.
So why don't you just mind your business.
You had 12,600 [INTERPOSING VOICES]
But, he's right, it was a pretty sick slow roll.
I'm sorry.
Because, I haven't done anything like that in my whole life.
Were you folding?
I can't get away from this, the whole speech?
The guy is already in.
He's already got 80% Doyle's aside.
Doyle you're the--
He had 50,000 more.
Did he have 50,000 more?
You want to, I'll bet he had at least 40,000 more.
You want to bet?
He put in 36,000.
I'll bet he had 40 more.
Before you count and look.
74, 74, 300.
Right.
What's the difference?
How could he ever have that beat?
You want to deal it four times, or what?
Four times?
Yeah.
It gives you a better chance to win.
Hey, then I sure do.
Cool.
Run it a mile day baby.
All right, four times.
Four times, need two kings.
Wow, that's about 50/50.
Or you need spade-spade.
Queen-jack.
Hey, run a Jack, hey, run the runner.
So we'll see the turn and river four times with each pot
worth a shade under 50 grand.
Run number one, a Jack of Hearts.
queen, need a queen, king.
The river an Ace of Diamonds, round one goes to Hellmuth.
Phil Hellmuth has filled up and made a full house.
He's locked up at least 25% of this pot.
Run two.
The turn.
A King.
There we go.
Full house That's what's I'm talking about baby.
Beautiful Ernest.
Get me damned, Get me damn.
If you ran it twice, you got money back.
You know, damn, I'm saying four times, oh, damn, didn't I?
Holy snap.
I got to stand back up now.
I thought it was only twice.
Come on.
The river's a 3.
15% dog.
Ernest has won the second pot.
So, that's cool.
I'm feeling good right now.
You're still alive you're still alive.
That's the only thing.
Our loose cannon will stick around.
Round three, a 7 of spades.
Everybody's rooting for a spade.
You can now hit a King or a spade to win this run.
Get me down.
The river.
It is a spade.
God damn.
It's a spade.
Up 2-1.
That's the loose cannon, he's up 2 to 1.
Why did you go for four times?
You went for--
Hey, man, I was thinking of [INAUDIBLE] man.
This is like slow roll.
One more time.
And you put it king ball out there.
Ernest Wiggins has now won half the pot.
This is the thing right here.
This is it right here.
This is like big action right here.
You got it?
Helmutt loves it.
Yeah, I really like it.
Come on, one more.
King.
One more king here.
The final run.
Ernest's odds continue to get worse and worse.
But Phil looks sick anyway.
A queen on the turn.
Jack, jack.
There's a jack.
You want a jack.
That would be something.?
Jack.
King.
King or a Jack.
On time.
There what?
Three jacks left?
[INTERPOSING VOICES] right now.
The final river card.
It's a king.
King.
Oh That's unreal.
He hit the three out of four.
He hit three out of four, with the worst hand.
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Why is everyone so happy, except Phil?
That's what I'm talking about.
3-1.
Oh yeah.
What a win.
What a win for you Ernest.
Phil deserved that.
Doing that with ace-9?
Tony, can you please please shut up?
The blind's coming.
Why?
it's something funny.
I mean, come on man.
What you just want to rub salt my wound every time.
Show some class.
But the hand.
You're a professional.
You aren't meant to play like that.
The only time anyone's felt even vaguely sorry for Phil.
Oh, that's enough bad beats to last a lifetime.
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