The Craziest NL HE Hand I've Ever Seen

[shipitfish]

It's been a long time since I've seen something even close to this — probably a few years. After a $15 preflop raise in a $1/$2 NL HE game where five people saw the flop, three stacks of $200, $250, and $450 got it all in on the flop of: 4 8 A

Of course, it's set (4 4) over set (8 8) over set (A A). This was only the second time in my life I saw this in a hand I was dealt into. (I folded preflop in both cases.)

Then, I proceeded, for the first time in probably two years, to actually be surprised by a draw out. Board finishes: 7 3. Bottom set wins — the only one that can make a flush on the unpaired board.

What I do think: it's two people's stories about how online poker is “rigged”.

Seeing it made me feel good in a way. I know I've been playing poker for a very long time when I finally see situations this unlikely. I have to get to bed soon, so I don't have time to calculate the odds on flopped set over set over set yielding a win for bottom set with a four-card flush on board. I am curious how the odds compare to other unlikely random events in life. Some days, I think all of poker is just a world wide experiment in confirming that statistically unlikely events do happen at roughly the theoretically proposed frequency.

For those of you keeping score on me, this doesn't count as a bad beat story being told in my journal because I didn't have a single $1 of my own in the pot, therefore it isn't my bad beat story.

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just like it...

[(Anonymous)]

nice journal brad. i've been reading the past few days, catching up on old posts. very good stuff. thanks.

anyway, you caught my attention specifically with this post. bout 2 years ago, i was playing 10-20 in the borgata, very loose game, and saw a hand just like that. i remember it more clearly than any hand i've ever seen or been a part of.

4 people in, capped preflop. so that's already 175 including the folded blinds.

flop comes out 8-9-A, rainbow. each player had more than enough to go capped through the river. one player betts out, 2nd raises, 3rd raises, 4th folds. 1st player capps it, other two call. that's 295.

turn comes, it's the 4th 8. the 9's were first to act, and, having made a boat, bet out. he gets raised bt the aces, who gets raised by the quads, who gets capped by the 9's ( the guy with nines was having a rough night, and having finally made a hand, would be damned if he didn't get it all in when he could). that's 535. last card comes, not 9 or A. the guy with 9's checks. the aces bet, raised by the 8's, called by the 9's, raised by the A's, capped by the 8's, and called by the 9's.

when they flip it the guy with 9's full went balistic. the guy with aces with just incredulous, and the guy who made quads, a good guy sitting on my right, just collected the pot as if nothing unusual had happened. i think he simply just didn't know how to react to winning a 775 pot in a 10-20 game.

it was great.