262k, 100/200 in the old Ivey's Room.

910 vs. 44 on 249108 CDCSC board,

Quit poker for 12 months. Never recovered.

Won 55$ satellite into 2100$ Omaha SCOOP...
Got decent stack close to bubble, and get AATJss in small blind, with bb who just got short last hand vs a naked flushdraw...
I flat an utg open, bb 3bet as expected, utg called and i 4bet gii vs 99T4ds from utg who slightly covers me...
Have 95% on the Turn, but 9 on river...

I’m a $1-$2 player but I’ll share:

Decided to “shot-take” by playing a $5-$10 blinds $5-$100 “spread-limit” Omaha Hi game. Bought in for $1500, dwindled down to $850 when this hand took place:

I limp UTG with AAJ9, guy raises to $50, a call, I reraise to $150, guy makes it $250, fold, I make it $350, he makes it $450, I make it $550, he calls. Flop T97r. I bet $100, he raises to $200, I go all-in for my last $300, he calls and flips over A862 for the flopped straight lol. I don’t spike my gutter and lose an $1800 pot.

He was just there to throw money around and have a good time…while I had damn near my entire bankroll on the table!

Literally just happened to me. In my truck writing this after leaving bc i donated more after being tilted.

Ive only recently gotten to a point in my life where i have money outside of online poker to play 2/5 live.

Cutoff opens 15, button makes it 30, i make it 120 from BB w QQ.

Button calls w A3o, flopped 989 he raises my 160 cbet all in for another 500 something behind and i called and this dude spikes a turn ace.

It was around 1300 total or something like that. I was seeing red.

I lost with quads that's the biggest hand I lost

Most spensive....

Biggest hand K high straight flush on a TJQ all heart flop with me holding 98 of hearts. All in vs A3 of hearts with a K of hearts river. Most expensive roughly 12K on a top set vs middle set flop with middle set hitting quads on the turn.

1/3 (live game): All in three way pre-flop with $1,400 each, I have AA, another guy has 5d7d, another guy never shows. 57 rivers a straight.

Oof, that is gross.

Everyone else has a bad beat for their largest loss? I just have a KK95ds preflop allin at PLO5k, I know they both have AAxx because they're both potting every time it's their turn which the nits did with AAxx exclusively, and it's a pretty much a break-even gamble for me at that point. I don't win unimproved but I have like 33% so let's go. I don't scoop for $57k and I don't even have much of a sweat after the flop because one of them flops a flush.

30/60 LHE. Capped 8 ways pre flop and I had KTs. Flop QJ9r and it gets capped 6 ways. Turn 4r and it gets capped 3 ways. River K and I lose to AT. Pretty ugly way to lose a 2500 dollar pot.

5/10 live, effective stacks somewhere between 2500 and 3000

V open 40 from EP, folds around to H, who makes it 160 with red TT from SB, V calls.

Flop: Ts8c7s
H c-bets, V raises, H 3bets, V all in, H calls

V tables J9cc, H doesn't boat up and looses a pot of ~ 5k-6k

This may or may not qualify as a big loss because I folded preflop, but if I didn't I would be getting it in 80/20 in a huge pot.

Back when the Hard Rock Los Vegas had unlimited buy in and cash played. It was only a $1/$3 game, but it was a crazy game. Everyone was buying and rebuying regularly. At one point I had over $6000 in front of me, all but my original $500 was profit. I had to go, but the game was too good so I stuck around. Since I was considering leaving, I would give chips to other players and take their cash as they rebought. I amassed a lot of cash.

So a hand starts. Blinds in seat 3 and 4. Seat 5 UTG raises a large amount. He has been playing all night with me. I am in seat 9 and look down at pocket kings. Action fold to me and I reraise a ridiculous amount. Say he raised to $30, I reraised to $110. It was that type of game where preflop raises needed to be large to get any respect. Action golds around back to him. He thinks a very long time. He looks at my stack a few times. Finally he goes all in.

He has like $5000 in front of him. I have him covered.

I have been playing with this guy for over 10 hours. While he might not have been the tightest player I have ever played with, he certainly was in the conversation. He was decent enough that I know he wasn't doing this with nothing.

The tightest player at the table just effectively preflop shoved 1700 BB UTG at a $1/$3 game.

I start laughing at myself and try and figure out if I am going to really fold kings preflop. It is such a ridiculous overbet from a tight player UTG that I am pretty sure I have to fold. I think a really long time and try to find any reason to make this call, but I can't.

Finally after a minute or two of tanking, I fold. I show my kings to him face up and say I cannot play them preflop this deepstacked against him. He looks at me befuddled and turns over pocket Jack's. He asks me how I can fold kings preflop for only a couple hundred dollars.

I am confused.

After a few seconds I realize that I had about $250 - $300 in chips in front of me, the rest was cash. I had been buying up so many buy ins (and then running cold for a while) that my stack of chips had dwindled. I had over $5500 in cash but only $300 (or less) in cash. So despite having him covered (at over $5000), he thought I only had a few hundred, so he had shoved thinking only my cash played.

I missed the opportunity to get it in good 80/20 preflop for a 3500 BB pot because I didn't understand that my opponent did not see the large stack of cash I had in front of me.

Maybe I wouldn't have won. Maybe he flops a jack or ends up with a straight. Who knows?

I just know I threw away 2800 BB of equity because I didn't realize my opponent would be clueless.

Not even sure at all. One memorable one was the hand after beating the nut flush with a straight flush. Very next deal the same guy is firing at me and I flop middle set. He had top set and gave it all right back to him.

There have been plenty of times over the years that I have lost more money than I lost during what follows, but on a phycological level this series of events was by far and away the biggest beat of my gambling life.

I had a top-20 chipstack in the PS Sunday Million with about 10 runners left to the bubble. Got them all-in preflop with AA vrs KQo. Villain was holding about 1/2 my chips and I lost. Two hands later, got AA again, got them all in preflop against the same Villain, now with twice my chips and again holding KQo, and I lost and went out on the bubble.

So I went from a top 20 stack to Bubble Boy in the Sunday Million by getting it all in preflop twice in three hands while holding AA each time. Then it got worse.

In a state of high tilt and outrage I immediately sat at a PLO1000 table with most of my bankroll. On my VERY FIRST HAND, after overplaying my J-J-10-X to build a much larger pot than necessary, I had the pleasure of seeing the flop come A-J-J. A bet and a raise later and I was all in with quads against AA-XX. The turn was a meaningless X. The River was the case Ace.

So I bubbled the Sunday Million by getting all-in with AA twice, and then obliterated my PS bankroll by losing with quads playing PLO1000, all in the space of about 10 minutes and exactly 4 hands. Then it got worse.

But the rest of it is not a gambling story.

Wow, 2pairsof2s, that is some serious run bad. Gross!

Somebody needs to figure out a strategy to sniff out flopped sets...so many times we put full stack in willingly just to lose it all.

i lost 3 and a half peanut butter sandwiches when the board came Jam Jam while i was holding Ace and peanutbutter suited.

holy

I remember another famous hand from the same game, someone's nut straight got sucked out by a PB&J sandwich draw (which according to the player was the equity favourite)

I was gonna write my submission but after this king of bad beats here theres no point, no point even writing any more bad beats even i dont think it can get worse than this

I do like to hear what happens next in any cliffhanger...

Another notable loss in which I fairly amazingly did not lose my stack. 2-5 hold'em:

Hero: red pocket 8s.

Flop: 7-9-10 of diamonds.

I fire one call.

Turn 4 clubs.

I fire, he calls.

River Jack of diamonds.

I bet half pot very deep. Dude tries to raise but string bets it and dealer disallows his raise. It's a smooth call, lol. He has K-Q of diamonds for bigger straight flush.