Sam Farha (KK) vs. Berry Greenstein (AA)

2009-09-13T15:01:00.000-07:00

This video shows how Sam Farha once again outflops anyone who tries to mess with him. There are 2 very funny scenes: minute 0:50-1:15 and minute 4:40-5:10.

My first BadBeat ever

2009-09-13T08:44:00.001-07:00

Hi all,

I am a semi-professional poker player who has had his share of badbeats in poker. This blog is designed so that people can share and discuss poker bad beats they have experiened.

I remember my first bad session very vividly 5 days after I started playing poker. I had a bankroll of $200 and was buyin in for $10 in $50 NL. I was the biggest fish at the table, even the fish were targeting me. But I was confident! Thanks to variance rather than to my shortstack 'strategy' - it really wasn't a strategy :) - I finally ended up with $800 3 hours later. I really believed at that point in time that I now knew how to play this game.

So I decided to move up a limit - and went directly to a table of 400NL :).

It didn't take long before I had KKand decided to raise from the button. I was 3bet by the big blind, I 4bet and we got it all in. He turns over 8s and I sigh in relief. Flop: Q84!!! At first I was shouting full of joy because I still believed to have won. Only after all the money went to the other guy I finally realized I was beat.

A couple of hands later I get Aces and all I am thinking now is how to punish this guy. Same situation: I raise from the button, he re-raises me from the big blind, but this time I only called to trap him. F:624 rainbow. Great, I raised his cbet and we got it all in again. Turn:2. River: 8!!!

I had just lost two stacks as a favorite on the same table against the same guy with exactly the same hand. But worse, those two stacks were my entire bankroll :)

Anyway, I would love to hear some badbeat stories from you or maybe post a handhistory with your comments.

Best

PoKeR-MaNiAc

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Sam Farha (KK) vs. Berry Greenstein (AA)

My first BadBeat ever