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www.pokerheaven.com – This hand took place in my recent live tournament, and was a nasty bad beat, but it wound up being the catalyst for an amzing comeback, ending in victory for me some two or three hours later.

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Having been dealt (Kc,Ks) in the small blind, I was delighted to see the shortest stack at the table with 600 chips, move all in, being flat called by the two players on my right. Naturally, I wanted to play heads up against the short stack, or maybe have only one other caller from the opponents on my right. I moved all in for 5,400 total, and was instantly called by one of the other two players with chips. This quick call left me fearing (A,A) and I was a bit confused, but relatively happy, to see him turn over (8h,9h). As the flop and turn brought no real help to my opponent, I just had time to think "any card but a Six on the river, and I’ll have a lovely chipstack".

The river brought a crushing (6s) to make a straight for the (8h,9h) and after a quick count, I was left with a paltry 700 chips in front of me. Quite what our player with (8h,9h) was thinking later became apparent when he explained that "well any two cards can win". He wasn’t a particularly experienced player, and he was playing crazy, lucky poker, which is a dangerous combination.
The correct move was almost certainly for him to fold, but although I didn’t realise it at the time, the most incredible roller coaster ride of a tournament for me, had only just begun. pokerheaven.com

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