Had an interesting hand, yesterday, which was actually kind of cool to lose--

Looked down to find 88, called a mini-raise and player to my left called.

Flop



All the money came in on the turn which was the .

He turned over and I'm feeling pretty bad. But I had a lot of outs for a redraw. One of those, I though, came on the river...a K.

I was ready to type "sry" when the chips started sliding to my left. HUH??? I scrolled the dialogue box up and it hit me. The K on the river was the . The only card in the deck that could make my hand and cause me to lose at the same time. My full house has been crushed by a royal flush.

I don't consider this a bad beat story, as we both played our hands well. I was fairly happy he only had a little over $7 to my $41, so I didn't lose that much. And got a pretty good story to tell, to boot.

CJ

I had a similar hand go down in a tourney last weekend.

I had and had limped in.

Flop came down .

Turn came . I bet, villan pushed and turend over 88.

River was the , giving villan 8s full of 9s and me the nine high sf.

-Jus