OK, which is worse--losing with kings full or queens full? I rest my case!

(On the other hand, which is worse--losing to quad 3s or quad 8s? Hmm, this might be closer than I thought ...).

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I have personally had two utterly ridiculous things happen to me:

1. Pocket QQ, flop comes QQ4, which I slowplay (risky, I know). Turn is spade 6, same suit as 4. I am hoping somebody makes something so I check. River is spade 8. Opp shoves all in and I call--and lose. And of course, I'm in a house that has no bad beat jackpot.

2. Seven card stud, Mirage, many years ago. My first four cards are 3333. I have two opponents whose boards, by sixth street, do not even show a pair. They are in there with me on every street, sometimes even leading the action. When the last card is dealt, we all take the maximum number of raises. I show my quad 3's, and the guy next to me exultantly shows his 7777. He is happy for about two seconds, until the third player shows QQQQ.

My wife and I were playing on the same table next to each other. The bad beat had just been changed at this place to where you needed BOTH hole cards (I guess they were pissy about paying it off more times with just the one card) and I had K9o and she held A8c. Flop came TJQc, so she held the nut flush and I had the 9 of clubs so I held and open ended Straight Flush Draw, with the straight made. Turn was the Kc giving her the royal and me the K high SF. She checked, I bet, she reraised I reraised, she went all in and I called and the table went nuts thinking we are splitting almost 80K. Then the dealer pushed the pot and starts to deal next hand. We are all confused thinking we had just spiked some money and the dealer goes, "Last week you would have had the jackpot, but we now play both cards." Much fun.

Not bad compared to others, but my trip aces lost to a royal flush earlier this year. Not as sexy as quad aces losing, but it still sucked.

I can't remember all of the details on this as it was several years ago. It was a 2/5 at Winstar casino in OK. Very crazy game. After the flop there were 4 people already all in. I only had to call a guys last 50 after the turn to win over $3000. I knew he had Kings full of Queens with the KhQhQx on the board. I had AhTh and didn't think I could win outright with a flush if my guess was right but for 50 I can't fold. The river brings the beautiful Jh and the one guy did had K's full as I suspected. There was no BBJ for this because he had to have quads. The only royal I ever hit but at least it was a healthy pot.

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I would have to quit for several months and/or significantly drop my limit. I'd feel like I tapped my good-fortune pool dry. Ha. What did the other two have?! Or were they short-stacked PF allins?

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Like I said before, this was 4 years ago so the I can't remember the other hands for sure. Probably a Q, or an OESD and/or a smaller flush draw? I was pretty caught up in the Royal so their hands didn't really matter which is probably why I don't remember plus they probably didn't all show. I was pretty stunned to say the least. The allin's were post flop leaving me and another guy with chips. (Don't ask me why he had $50 left. I didn't say they were good players.) I was the big stack at the table so I had been running good already and figured what the hell, lets see what happens. It was a crazy table that was playing way higher than 2/5. On the weekends that casino had some pretty well-to-do people that played there and if you got on their table you were lucky. They liked to throw money around. One guy was a backer for WSOP guys and he would sit down and raise $100 preflop all day and just loved to gamble it up. The max buy in was only $500 so you didn't get to start very deep and they didn't always have a 5/10 game going.

Just one of those games that you don't forget. (Just not all the details now because of the time.)

At that same table later I was on the Button with AA and 5 guys were all in preflop. It was around $400 to me. What was I going to do? Fold? No, I called and lost to KJ offsuit. That's how crazy this game was. I do remember I left after that. I knew my luck had run out.

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I won a bad beat jackpot a few years ago and have been freerolling on it ever since. I flopped quad 5's. Other player had 8-8. Flop came 5-5-x. I led out and the guy thought for a second and called. Turn and river were 8-8. Guy said afterwards he almost folded on the turn, not because he put me on the 5, but because of the over card. (I forget if it was a J or K). He decided to "see one more card" and once he had made the full house, he was in until the end. The river 8 turned out to be the sweetest river card I ever saw.

Worst beat I ever saw was one I put on someone else. I was in a 2-5 NL game and was in the big blind. Everyone folded, small blind called the blind and I checked my option. I had K-J. Flop came K-J-J. Small blind checks, and I check, thinking if I bet a nickel he'd fold. River was a 3s, putting a flush out there. Small blind bets $25. I raise to $50. He re-raised to $150 and I immediately think he has a flush. I go all-in for about $600. He insta-called and tabled K-K. I was stunned. Then, the case Jack hits the river and I am even more stunned as I win the pot and clean out the other guy with quads. I kept my head down for about 20 minutes because I was afraid to look up I was so embarrassed by that win. Of course, not embarrassed enough to give it back, but still...

Back when Party Poker was still legal in the US, I got the winner's share of the BBJ (can't remember what the total BBJ was but winner's share was just short of 42K). I was running bad on FTP that day so I put $200 in PP and sat at a 1/2 NL table. About half an hour in, I get 99 and call a raise as does one other player. Three to the flop and the board comes 9-8-5 rainbow. Other caller leads, raiser calls, and I decide to just call. This wasn't be slowplaying but moreso being gunshy and fearful of 6-7 since I had been running bad and getting smacked all day. Turn comes 9, so I've made my quads and it gets checked around. River 8 and other caller leads, raiser folds, I raise, caller reraises and I shove and get called. I never even got to see what he had (of course he had 88, but before I saw that I got pushed the pot) when all of a sudden a message flashed on the lobby saying I had just hit the BBJ for almost 42K. I was in complete shock.

My own personal worst bad beat, I think, was before NL had come back, so it as a 4/8 game. Turned the straight flush holding 8s7s on a X9sTsJs board and the betting was capped 3 ways. Then the Qs falls on the river. One guy has As2s, the other player had KsX. The bad beat in the room was about $60K and only required the winning hand play a single card from the hand, but required the losing hand play both. So I got no bad beat jackpot for my bad beaten 2-card straight flush since it wasn't a two-card hand by the river. A couple other players at the table argued for 5 minutes with the floor that it should count because I had started with a 2-card straight flush and it had been beaten--sounded logical to me, but he didn't fall for it.