Bad Beat - Virgin Poker Festival!

[GeordieGaz999]

Ok... so I went to the Virgin Poker Festival and was a good day out... didn"t last very long but was good experience.

I don"t know if any of you know but Virgin had put on a bad beat prize of 50,000 virgin atlantic miles for the worst beat of the weekend. I went down with two of my friends, morlspin being one of them and another friend named scuz. they were both entered into the bad beat draw.... these were the beats they received:

MORLSPIN:

Holding  :: ::... the board comes  :: ::   giving morls trip .. the turn brings  ... giving him the full house... river....  .... his opponent shows quad 5"s.

SCUZ:

Holding  kh ks... he"s all in pre flop and goes up against  ac ah... flop...   td qd... turn  jh giving him the straight... the river comes...  kc giving his opponent a higher straight.

Morlspin won the prize and congratulations to him... but I would like to know who people think the worst beat belongs to?

[Swinebag]

easy-morlspin. 1 out going to the river

The other guy was just cold decked with a twist, despite the 2 outer on the river.

[DJKebab]

If Scuz was allin in pre-flop holding KK vs. AA, I don"t see how it can really be a bad beat at all? The best hand when the money went in won the hand.

[asarge]

definatley morlspin. without a doubt!!

[Ant1966]

Having witnessed Morlspin"s beat first hand i"m biased anyway.Morlspin, if memory  serves me correct, bet the flop and the guy just flat called holding 6 5 off suit.The five on the turn and nobody"s going anywhere.The 5 on the river he kinda guessed he was beat.

AA v KK all in pre-flop......best hand held up...eventually.

No brainer for me.

[Buck Pete]

Great result for Morls.

quick question.....

Would i be right in saying if the board was  :: :ad: ::

Morls bad-beat would not have stood because his opponent would not have used both his hole cards?

[GeordieGaz999]

quick question.....

Would i be right in saying if the board was  :: :ad: ::

Morls bad-beat would not have stood because his opponent would not have used both his hole cards?

I"m not too sure to be honest.... i don"t think that it would of made a difference because effectively the opponent has only used his 5 to complete his hand... the 6 being his other card didn"t really matter that much.

But not 100% sure

easy-morlspin. 1 out going to the river

The other guy was just cold decked with a twist, despite the 2 outer on the river.

his opponent does not have one out going to the river.... he has 7 outs... three 3"s to make a higher full house.. three sixes and also the case five which eventually came on the river.


Just to digress a bit... who thinks that Morls"s bad beat would still have won if his opponent was holding a higher pocket pair and had made the full house on the river rather than quads?

[Swinebag]

7 outs. of course!

In that case Morls got what he deserved

and some other guy should have won it

[dirama]

I would say that Morlspin is the clear winner

[JulioArca]

By cardplayers calculation Morlspin was only an 84.09% favourite going to the river when I guess the money went in. (83.9% on the flop).
Scuz on the other hand was an 81.71% dog preflop when the money went in and the best hand held up.
Playing the Cardiff regional yesterday I had manged to build my stack from 3,000 to over 5,000 when the following two hands came up. (Blinds 200 / 400)
Villain1 holding  ah went allin with his remaining 2100, I wake up with   ac  :as: and make the call. The flop comes   giving him an inside straight flush draw with the turn bringing the money card  . Odds were 92.94% - 5.65% when the money went in. I then fold my big blind to a raise. Next hand I play was in the small blind when it folds around to me holding  :as: qs and in order to make it look like a steal I raise to 1200 and get called by  qh jd - the flop comes  qd kh making me 85.96% - 12.83% favourite and I push allin with my remaing 1400 and get called. The turn brings  jh and its goodnight and thankyou.
Needless to say I didn"t win the lottery last night either

[morlspin]

the flop was actually 2 3 5 5 5

i had 22

he had 65

i checked preflop

raised on the flop

bet and re-raised the turn

checked the river