The Two Worst Beats I Have Ever Taken

UltimateBet, I should have never given you a chance.

In my short time on the site, I was up about ten bucks, and at .05/.10NL, that isn't too bad. Today I dropped a buy-in at the .05/.10 NL Hold'em table, and then bought into a .10/.25PL Omaha 6-handed table. In case you weren't aware, the Omaha players on UB are pretty terrible at the lower limits. Case in point, a 50 person tournament I entered yesterday, and took 6th place at despite my lack of Omaha experience. Well today I suffered two incredible beats in back to back hands. (I don't know how to access my UB hand history, so until I figure that out I can't post the hands on pokerhand.org.)

Here's what happened:

UTG raises pot (.85)
UTG+1 calls.
MP calls.
I re-pot to 4.00 with AhAsKh9s
Blinds fold.
UTG calls.
UTG+1 folds.
MP calls.
(Pot is upwards of 15.00)

Flop is 3h- 9s- Ac

UTG checks.
MP checks.
I bet the pot.
UTG folds.
MP tanks... and calls of his last 6.00 with Ad- 7d- 5c- Js

Turn is 4d.
River is 6c.

MP takes the pot with a straight, three to seven.

In this hand, I got the most amount of money possible into the pot with the guaranteed best hand. Then I caught a dream flop in Omaha- top set, a pair, and two out of the three back door flush draws. Unless my math is incorrect, I win this pot after the flop 95% of the time (it could be more, since my opponents only outs are running 4-6) He called off his whole stack with only the case ace and no kicker to speak of, and caught the only possible two cards he could catch to suck out on me.

I couldn't believe that beat. I started laughing uncontrollably, in a sad way. But the worst beat would happen the very next hand.

UTG pots to .85
UTG+1 folds.
I call with 8c8s6c5h
Three folds.

Flop is 8h- 3d- 7s

UTG checks, I check.

Turn is 7c

UTG bets the pot (2.05)
I raise the minumum to 4.10.
UTG moves all-in.
I call.

Opponent shows: A-7-K-5

River is 7h.

Board reads: 8-3-7-7-7

Opponent wins with four of a kind, sevens.

I checked the nut hand on the flop and got all of my money in on the turn with my opponent drawing to ONE OUT. You can't ask for anything more than that, a 98% favorite. When the river card came a seven, I lost it. Although I only technically lost 10.00 for the Omaha session, I was up to 25.00 before the AA hand, and would've been back to 25.00 had I not been one-outed. If I take both pots, like I'm supposed to? I have a whopping 50.00+ stack and am up 4 buy-ins for the session.

I can't believe it.

-The Gerk-