A Bad Bad Beat

A bad beat is when a poker player made a hand so big, such as 4 of a kind or a straight flush, which is almost invincible, and get beat. When this kind of situation happens, in most poker room there is a Bad Beat Jackpot for the players involved in the hand and at the table to share.

A player, who was seriously stuck for the day, made a King high straight flush in the 3/6 holdem game, only to find it was beat by the royal flush, then the table thought they hit the jackpot, but was informed by the dealer and the floor superviser that one of the player has to use both hole cards to be quanlified for the jackpot. Then the player made the King straight flush was informed that his 4/8 holdem seat is opened up. So he picked up all his chips and left the table. Soon after he left, another player sit down and processed to win a huge pot. Right after that, the previous player came back, he has just found out that there were no seat open in the 4/8 holdem game, the floor had made a mistake.

So the guy not only lost his money, lost his King high straight flush, lost the jackpot that he thought he hit, and also lost his seat in the poker game for a chance to get his money back.

That was a really a Bad Bad Beat.