Case carded

When you're heads up on the turn, the worst beat you can take is when only one of the forty-four possible river cards can beat you, and yet that's the very card which gets dealt. That happened to me on the final hand of the second MTT NLHE I played last night. I'd been dealt pocket queens, and was up against an opponent who'd been dealt pocket deuces; I was an 81.58% favorite at that point. My opponent hit a set of deuces on the flop; he was an 84.14% favorite at that point. I hit a set of queens on the turn; I was an 97.73% favorite at that point. Finally, he hit quad deuces on the river, when the case deuce appeared. By the way, poker commentators call the fourth card of a particular denomination which shows up the case card, since when three have already shown up, there's only one more such card left in the case. I'm sure that my losing hand of queens full of deuces is the best hand I've ever hit the felt with in an MTT NLHE.

buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings

   900   100       6    36    1036  264   235     1538
   900   100       6    75     877  216    76     2880

delta: $2,418
MTT NLHE balance: $-4,935
balance: $7,206,557