The worst bad beat I ever took was three years ago at the WSOP, there were 12 of us left and five seats to be won for the $10,000 Championship event. In the $2500 Super Satellite at the Bellagio, I took the strangest beat, writes Simon 'Aces' Trumper.

I was one of the chip leaders so when a stack a third of mine moved in from first position, I quickly called with KK, my opponent turned over AQ.
 
The flop was 8 8 8 and the turn the fourth 8 to give him quads with an A!

Playing in the $2500 Super Satellite on Saturday, I took the strangest beat.
 

We started with 380 players and 5000 in chips, after building to 7000 I was moved, first 2 hands I doubled up with QQ and TT.

Then while in the SB with 78 I flopped the nuts on a 4 5 6 flop, I bet 1200 and was called. Turn was a 5, I checked and the chip leader declared all in. I called, he had K5, nothing paired and I was up to 30,000.
 
At the break I still had 30,000 when the average was 12,000, as table’s broke and new players joined I maintained my stack around 30,000 so with 120 left I had double the average.
 
One of the players to join our table was Vinny Vinh.

Now I have only played with him twice. Once in a single table satellite at the WSOP where when he got rivered.

He smashed his wall of chips across the table hitting the dealer and got a warning. Then in the $3000 here, he was opposite me and was knocked out when he raised with A5 and both myself in the BB and the SB had AK and split the pot.
 
Earlier in that event he had made a great call when a player moved in on him on the flop with just T7 no pair and he called with AT no pair, but the other player rivered a 7.

He then went mad shouting how this happened to him all the time using the F word in every sentence, eventually he walked away from the table, one player remarked on why should he get away with that behaviour and I agreed, while another asked for the floor.
 
When he returned he was told by the floor he would get a 20 penalty should he swear again, a few hands later he went out without a murmur.
 
Having sat down at my table today with approximately 10,000 he waited for the blinds to go 400 800 then started raising 2 to 3 times a round.

His standard raise was 2200 and I noticed he always did it from second position each round, once he was reraised 6000 and passed, but with no other challenge he built his chips up to 17,000 then this happened.
 
Yet again he raised to 2200 in second position, round to me I had 66. I knew he was weak and decided to pick up the 5500 in dead money.

I called and raised 9000 more, all passed to him and he immediately said: "I go all in, I know you are gunning for me, I call you with any two cards after you called the floor on me the other day, I just want to get lucky against you for what you did trying to get me into trouble."
 
The all in raise was 6200 more, obviously I had to call, but I was gob smacked at his tirade of anger.

Firstly, because it was bollocks and secondly as it unsettled the whole table.

I of course tried to explain I was not the one who called the floor, but he told me the dealer had come to him later and said it was me.

So, because unbeknown to me a dealer had chose to say it was me rather than the real person, probably a regular, he had decided to gamble for all his chips with Kjo.
 
On their backs, if I lose I still have 13,000, if I win I am up to 50,000 average for a seat.
 
Flop was T 2 T J 3 and I lose, as you can imagine I was pretty upset and wanted this resolved especially as we may face each other in the big event. Short of getting up and reigniting his short fuse I came up with a novel idea.
 
The next time he raised and it was passed to me I refused to act until he apologised. I explained to the table what he had done the other day and that although I agreed with the other players it was out of order, regardless of what the dealer told him, I did not call the floor.

The dealer insisted I act and Vinny was listening to his Ipod as if nothing was happening.

Eventually I told him to take off the head set and explained I wanted this resolved. He then apologised not once but twice and said I have played with you before and we have no problems man.
 
Eventually having gone card dead and with every pot being raised preflop, with 60 left and 34 seats I had to move in with 9To, the BB called with 97o, flop was A A 7 and I was out.
 
I can't remember an incident upsetting me as much, if he hadn't been told I called the floor, there is no way he would have pushed all his chips in and mouthed off. Compounding the incident by then getting lucky on the flop, he will now probably win a $25,500 seat while I had to calm down and write this to get it out of my system.
 
Ok, job done, now it's time to refocus and prepare for the main event.

I can take two positives from today… One I played well and beat 320 other players and two more importantly, regardless of the incident I retained my composure and never went on tilt.
 
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