Poker's Thankful: Great Suckouts From 2013Here's A Look At Five Memorable Items From This Year's Luckbox Vault |
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Poker undoubtedly is a game that requires great skill, but luck is crucial from time to time, especially against other top-notch opponents. In this article we took a look at a handful of the more memorable suckout moments from the poker world this year.
We’ll start off with a hand that featured two of the game’s most recognizable pros.
This year was huge for veteran grinder Mike Matusow. He started his run off with a win in the NBC National Heads-Up Championship in January, beating friend and poker great Phil Hellmuth in the final. The last hand of their battle featured a pretty big suckout, especially given that Matusow wasn’t getting the right price to call with his flush draw and one card to come. However, he made the call and connected with the diamond to capture the title.
(Note: the hand in the video above starts at 34:20.)
Arguably the luckiest player in the 2013 main event was poker pro Rep Porter. According to the video above, Porter was all-in or close to all-in on five occasions (at least) in spots where he was a huge dog each time. However, he won them all. Check it out.
Porter went on to finish in 12th for a $573,204 payday.
The high-stakes online game is home to an abundance of hands, so it’s no surprise that some of the biggest suckouts happen in that realm. The following one between Viktor Blom and Ben Sulsky at $250-$500 heads-up pot-limit Omaha in January is one of the craziest so far this year.
Both Sulsky and Blom had around $200,000 in their stacks and stuck in $16,000 apiece preflop. The flop of A
4 6
was super draw heavy and after some raising all the money went into the middle. Both players are known for being hyper-aggressive.
Blom tabled the 9 3 5
10 and was up against Sulsky’s A K Q 6. According to Card Player’s Omaha odds calculator, Sulsky wins nearly 82 percent of the time.
While the odds wouldn’t seem too ridiculous on the surface, what made this a really bad beat was that the players elected to run it twice. Remarkably, the first run-out was 2 9
and the second run-out was J 2, giving Blom both halves of the pot with straights.
He scooped in the massive $401,000 sum, which was one of the largest on 2013.
According to HighstakesDB, Blom is up around $2 million this year.
Like we alluded to with Rep Porter, the WSOP main event is always home to some of the most ridiculous beats captured on camera. But sometimes it isn’t even about the cards.
The hand featured in the video above isn’t that absurd of a suckout — it was only a three-outer on the river — but the player on the losing end had one of the saddest faces in all of tournament poker this year. It looked like you had just told him his entire family had died in a car crash.
In order to stay in line with our theme here in this article, we’ll point out that David Paredes got really lucky against fellow poker pro Carter Gill.
Daniel Negreanu has had an amazing year — currently first in the Player of the Year race — thanks to some awesome play. However, he did benefit from a massive suckout at the final table of the WSOP Asia-Pacific main event in April.
At the time the hand went down during four-handed play, Negreanu had a slight chip lead over George Tsatsis. The two big stacks got tangled up in a spot that was pretty much a cooler for Negreanu, but a miracle on the river gave him the pot and a massive chip lead. He more or less coasted to his fifth career bracelet. Check out the hand above.
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