The next time you think you got beat with a bad suckout, take a look at this to make yourself feel better... and imagine the pain.
Before the Flop:
There are 3 people in front of me that call the $8 bet (double the big blind). I am thinking some of them are probably sitting on AQ, AJ, A10, KQ, or a middle or lower pair. I raise to $15 to see if I can shake any of them out and see if anyone is holding something stronger like AA, KK, QQ that will come over the top. I got three callers. That's a nice pot already, but it doesn't tell me too much about their hands.
F:
This flop could be trouble since there is a possibility of someone hitting the straight, hitting 2 pairs, or having a flush draw. I have the over cards, a nut straight draw, and a back door nut flush draw. More importantly, I was the aggressor preflop. I want to take a stab at this pot or see if the reaction to my bet reveals more about their cards. I bet $30 which looks like I want to get some action. It is a post oak bluff that will not hurt me too much if I get raised. I can then get out of the hand without too much damage. Most good players would have made a large raise if they hit a good part of the flop since it has a flush draw and a straight out there and the pot was already large. One player just calls my bet. I now think he probably doesn't have much. He is probably on a draw (straight or flush)
T:
Another heart. I make a large bet to see if he was playing the flush. I have the ace, so he couldn't have the nut flush. I got raised $120. I now think he has the flush or straight, and I was trapped. Regardless, another $120 is not too much when I could have his flush beaten. I do not reraise, because he only has like $50 or so left on a $591 pot. I wouldn't have been able to get him off his hand, and I thought I may be beaten anyway.
R:
Blank comes on river, right? We just checked it out. As you can see he hit a 7 on the river to take a $591 pot with a pair of 7s. He was playing rags the entire time! He had no flush draw, no straight draw, no pair, or even cards to draw with. WTF was he doing in this pot? He should have never called $15 preflop. Even so, only an idiot would have called $30 when he hit nothing and had no draws on the flop.
This may just be some of the worst play I have ever seen at a medium limit table ($400 NL). He made terrible plays, and yet he was rewarded with $591. He wasn't on tilt, and I didn't have a table image as a loose player or a bluffer. This one hurt, and cost me a pretty penny over the next few weeks.
