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After my last whiny post about all the bad beats I’ve been taking lately, I feel honor-bound to publish the following. This was in a $700 buy-in Step 5 tournament, in which the top 2 finishers get $2100 Step 6 tickets, 3rd and 4th get their $700 Step 5 tickets back, and 5th and 6th get downsized to a $215 Step 4 ticket. There were seven players when this hand came up, so if I lose the hand I walk away with nothing but a hole in my pocket where $700 used to be.

I was recording the tournament, so you’re watching and hearing it as it happened, just a few minutes ago…

Luckbox Larry eats top set for breakfast

As some of you may recall, Ace-Ten vs Queens was my fateful matchup against Dmitri Nobles in the 2006 WSOP. If the cards had fallen this way with the ESPN cameras rolling my life might be very different now … “Carry your OWN damn self out on a stretcher, you cocky little piss ant!”

Back to reality, I went on from there to capture the chip lead, but sadly lost a big coinflip with the mighty deuces against some other bastard’s Ace-Ten (how can he play that crap?) and finished fourth to break even in the tournament. I’m pretty sure IamMcLovin88 smiled smugly when he outlasted me, but he busted in 3rd on the serious bubble, and only got the same prize I did, which must have stung a bit.

It would have been nicer if my suckout had led to victory, but I’ll take a refund on my $700 over a sharp stick in the eye socket any day…