Million Dollar Bad Beat

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Remember last year during the World Series of Poker main event when this guy’s reaction made us think he’d lost the saddest poker hand ever? Erase that from your memory.

This hand right here — from the WSOP Big One for One Drop, which aired Tuesday night on ESPN — is without a doubt the worst bad beat in the history of poker.

Let’s start with this crazy fact: These guys paid $1 million(!) to play in a poker tournament, the only tournament of its kind with $15,306,688 to the winner (let that sink in for a moment).

Both Connor Drinan and Cary Katz picked up pocket aces, and after some pre-flop raises and acting that included an ominous message from Katz, they naturally got their money all in, but only Drinan was at risk of being eliminated. But, c’mon, what’s the worst that could happen when they’re an identical 2% to win a pot they split 98% of the time?

Only this:

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Aces vs. aces. No big deal?

That look you get when you know you can’t lose.

Flush draw. No, this isn’t happening …

This guy can’t believe it either!

Flush! It happened! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

How? Why? What?

That look you get when you realize $1 million was just flushed away on an awful beat.

Longtime ESPN poker commentator Lon McEachern called Drinan losing to an improbable flush “the worst beat in the history of tournament poker.” How can anybody disagree given the enormous stakes?

Oh, and that ominous message from Katz to Drinan before the flop? “Save your money, kid. You can’t win every pot.”

Drinan was knocked out in 18th place and out of the money.

To watch this horrific beat slowly unfold, just click below:

Oh noooooo.

This is so extremely brutal given how close the players at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event are to the end.

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Timothy Su will start Friday’s action third in chip count with 34,350,000 thanks to this stunner of a win over Sam Greenwood, who finished in 45th.

The video below starts at the flop — Greenwood has pocket Aces and Su has 10-9 offsuit. The flop is Jack-Queen-4, giving Su two ways to get a straight with either a King or an 8.

Greenwood bets 1.8 million of his 15M-plus chips and Su calls. The turn is another Jack and Greenwood bets 3.5M this time. I would assume he bet pre-flop, so Su might know he has pocket Aces by this point. But he shoves all in anyway, knowing he has over 29 million in chips, a risky but smart move given his stack.

Guess what shows up on the river? Watch below:

Brutal. Just so very brutal. Su hits his straight with a King and Greenwood goes home.