For once, a bad beat I was happy to lay down on someone else. :-)
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Preflop: Hero is SB with Ac, Ad.
UTG folds, UTG+1 calls, MP1 folds, MP2 calls, MP3 calls, CO folds, Button folds, Hero raises, BB folds, UTG+1 calls, MP2 calls, MP3 calls.
Flop: (9 SB) 4s, As, 9d (4 players)
Hero bets, UTG+1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 calls.
Turn: (5.50 BB) Ah (2 players)
Hero checks, MP3 bets, Hero calls.
With two aces on the board I’m afraid of spooking him with a bet. I want him to buy that I’m trying I’m on a flush draw.
River: (7.50 BB) 9s (2 players)
Hero checks, MP3 bets, Hero raises, MP3 3-bets, Hero caps, MP3 calls.
Final Pot: 15.50 BB
Main Pot: 15.50 BB, between Hero and MP3.
Pot won by Hero (15.50 BB).
Results below:
Hero shows Ac Ad (four of a kind, aces).
MP3 shows 9c 9h (four of a kind, nines).
Outcome: Hero wins 15.50 BB.
When he typed in the chat window that he had quad nines I was thinking “Yeah, right. You had nines full.” but when I checked out the hand history . . . he had it!

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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
