For those of you (myself included) who wonder sometimes about the badbeats online, here's one I took today playing live at De Park. It was early, level 3, but you only start with 5000 chips. Usually play is pretty tight until after first break (1 hr. in). I lost some chips then managed to get em all back with one nice hand. My table got broke up, my first hand at the new table I get dealt Q Q. I'm in middle pos., I see the button has a huge stack, so I'm hoping the eighty year old gray haired woman is an aggressive bully. My turn comes with one limper so far, blinds are 100 -200 btw, so I raise to 800. I have just over 5000 chips at start of hand. 2 smaller stacks call, grandma folds unfortunately, limper calls. Four way, the flop comes 3 6 8 rainbow. Out of position limper, caller, pushes allin. I think, did he hit a set, well I'm done if he did cause I insta called. No, no set, he had 3 6, oh yeah, it was suited.

Now I know what you're saying, crazy hands happen live, but not as often online. Well here are the last four hands I saw in this tourney in a row. First, guy to my right raises preflop, BB reraises, they end up allin, A A vs. K K. (the A's did hold up). Next hand, three in an unraised hand, flop comes 4 4 9, two players are betting end up allin , one guy has a 4 (he never showed other card), same guy who just had A A, turns over 9 9, for the fullhouse. Next hand, right before we moved, allin preflop, no callers, he show A A. Then the fourth hand above, my Q Q gets beat by six high.

I can handle badbeats online cause I can just enter another tournament and forget about it, but I only can play live occasionally and when everything aligns -- have a day off, have some extra cash, no other important obligations -- it really aggravates me to get busted on a hand like that. (btw - guy that busted me had about 4000 chips, he finished me off next hand, I pushed when I saw I had an A, he had 10 10)