Learn Texas Holdem

Hello, here are some of my bad beat stories that you can post up on your site.

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#1:

Title: What an a$$ hole !!

I usually play Texas Hold 'em online with 5 players, $4/8 Limit. I will start by saying I know my game quite well. I have been playing for a while, watching it on TV and I use all of the basic strategies (and more) regarding online poker. Some of them include: Always raise high pocket pair as you want fewer people in the pot, always check/call flush draw or straight draw or even small pair (2 pr/trip draw) as you want everyone to put a low position on you. And on Limit tables, consider small pocket pairs as "trip draws", meaning no raise, no bet, just check/call and hope to catch a set because most people won't fold their $4 big blind on Limit.

So anyways, this other day at the $10/20 Limit (for the first time ever). I was delt AK big blind. After everyone called big blind, I raise it to $20, everyone calls (big pot). Flop comes AA2 raimbow. I checked, as so did everyone else until it got to small blind. He bets $10. I raise it to $20, the person to my left calls and everyone else fold. Clearly small blind must had a 2 or just tried to bluff. I raised because of the potential straight draw (34 or 45). So now it's just me and the person to my left. Turn comes out a 5 (no flush draw), I bet $20, he calls. River is a 3, I bet $20 again and he raises me! I was sure by then he had me beat but I called just to see his cards and clearly I was right, he flips his 4-8 offsuit and takes the pot!

I was like WTF? Why did he call my raise with 48 offsuit with AA2 flop? WHAT A C*CKSUCKER! I didn't stop typing curses at him and his family for the next 10 minutes. F*cking $270 slap in the face for me against a hand that wasn't supposed to be playing in the first place! He wasn't even one of the blinds!!! I personally think he was working for the Poker-site and had it rigged. And I am thinking more and more that Poker-sites occasianally have their own hackers that know exactly what cards are coming so they can make extra money out of players. I could be worng though.

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#2:

Title: Set ups after set ups

This is not a one time story, this happened to me many times. A "Set-up" is what I call an extremely high hand against an unexpected better one. Like when I was delt AK suited at a NL tournament only to find out one of the other players had AA. Or when I had AQ suited, the other player had pocket KK. I call that being set up with AK against AA or AQ suited against KK.

However, when I had pocket KK and the other player had A2 offsuit and called my all in, first thing to hit the board was an Ace.

Here's my favorite of the bad beats: I had pocket 9's preflop (spades and clubs) and the flop came out 4d, 6s, 9d, the only other player left tried to bluff as he assumed I didn't have small cards for raising preflop. It was NL tournament by the way. He bet almost half his stack. I put him on 2 diamonds not wanting him to catch, I go ALL IN. He calls. He had Jc and 2d. He was next to dead. Even if he caught two Jacks I would make boat. So I sat back and wached. Turn: Kd, River: Ad. He had a 2-high flush! Four diamonds on the board was his only out! Three diamonds, the pot is mine, five diamonds, we split. The question is, why did he call?

The more this sh*t happens, the more I think online poker is rigged. Excuse me for saying this but I have no other explanation.

Only on online poker can you see 3 Royal Flushes in the same week.

Only on online poker can two people have Quads in the same hand. Ex: Pocket 99 vs Pocket TT and Board: 99TTx.

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