This isn't funny any more

I've just busted out of a MTT to probably the worst, and luckiest, player ever.

Here's the scene: Blinds are 150/300 and I'm in the SB - it's limped around and I have Q-j, so I make up the BB and 4 of us see a J-2-3 rainbow flop.

I'm first to act and put out $490 into a pot of $600. This gets rid of two players, and (after an eternity) I get one caller.


The turn pairs the board (another 3), I consider pushing, but eventually put out a bet of $700 (into a pot of $1,580) - again, he smooth calls.


Now, I'm starting to think he might have an overpair, but if it were me I would have been re-raising by now, so perhaps he limped with A-3 and now has trips an he's trapping me.

The river comes down 6h and I'm perplexed. There were no possible flush draws or straight draws that he could have been calling me with (save 4-5), so I put him on perhaps a medium pair (7's - 10's) and he was possibly putting me on A-K or A-Q, either that or he was slow playing Aces to the max.

I decide my top pair with an over-kicker is probably good, so push my last $1,000 into the pot and it is immediately called.

Incredibly, he turns up Jc-6c. What the f**k?!?!? He called me all the way down to the river and got lucky enough to make 2-pair.


I don't mean to keep harping on about it, but this is just another example of a big stack player getting down to the river against a smaller stack and sucking out. Really, he's on a 3-outer to win the pot outright, and only an Ace or King on the river for a chop.

I know this isn't a classic 'draw' situation, where he's either up+down or on a flush, with multiple outs on the turn/river. He invested nearly $2,500 of his $4,000 chips on top pair - no kicker.

By rights, anyone who plays that bad deserves to lose all his chips, so why do these idiot keep sucking out on me?

I can't see any other way I could have played that pot - except, maybe, pushing all-in on the flop - but the idiot would probably have called with his top pair anyway, and I would still have lost.

I honestly don't know how many more of these insane bad beats I can take - poker isn't fun anymore. Every time I pick up Aces, Kings or A-K the first thing I think is "here's my opportunity to go bust", because I know I am going to get called by some idiot with a big stack, holding Q-J suited who'll make 2-pair, a straight or a flush.

Really, I could have lived with being slow played by Aces or Kings - I could hold my hands up and say "well played", but the way this hand went down is just sick.

Anyway, I'm off for more punishment - await another instalment of P0kerJedi's bad beats very soon.