{"id":12572,"date":"2018-08-24T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T12:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=12572"},"modified":"2018-08-26T15:44:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T15:44:33","slug":"arizona-bad-beat-a-reminder-poker-can-be-the-cruelest-of-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/arizona-bad-beat-a-reminder-poker-can-be-the-cruelest-of-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Bad Beat A Reminder Poker Can Be The Cruelest Of Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three-handed no-limit hold\u2019em action at the Casino Del Sol Poker Room<\/strong> in Tucson, Arizona this week led to what has to be considered one of the worst bad beats of all time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The player who ended up in third place on the river posted a picture of the outcome (seen above) on a Reddit<\/strong> poker forum<\/a>. He later explained that he\u2019d flopped quad nines<\/strong> and a second player in the hand flopped tens full. Apparently, it checked to the turn, where a third player in the hand picked up a gutshot straight flush draw.<\/p>\n

The ten of diamonds river gave that player his straight flush<\/strong>, but it also made quad tens<\/strong> for the player who\u2019d flopped the boat, leaving quad nines in third.<\/p>\n

Bad beat out of the bad beat<\/span><\/h2>\n

Ordinarily, it wouldn\u2019t matter who came in second or third in a hand, but the Casino Del Sol Poker Room had an $18,000 bad beat jackpot<\/strong> on the line.<\/p>\n

That meant the player who made his straight flush earned an additional $4,500, or 25 percent. Plus, because the Casino Del Sol Poker Room bad bead jackpot rules state that bad beat payouts are based on the strength of the hands at the end, the player who rivered quad tens while drawing dead was considered to have taken the bad beat.<\/p>\n

That means he got 50 percent of the jackpot, or $9,000. In the meantime, the player who flopped quad nines had to settle for $665 \u2014 the same share of the other 25 percent everyone else at the table earned.<\/p>\n

He was bad beat out of the bad beat,<\/strong> leaving him with\u00a0little more than a consolation prize consisting of a legendary story and the sympathy of any Reddit forum posters that managed to get past the oddly designed cards used at Casino Del Sol.<\/p>\n

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