The Bad Beats Still Hurt
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"I've been doing this every day for ten years," Scott Seiver told Cathy Dever. "Anyone who says that they don't hurt is lying."
Tony Dunst chimed in.
"Oh yeah," he agreed. "Just losing in general."
The adverse affects of losing with the best hand may diminish over time, but the pain remains real, and minutes after this conversation Dunst was dealt a bad hand.
It all started when David Grandieri moved all in for 79,000 in middle position. Athanasios Polychronopoulos called on his direct left, and the action folded to Dunst, who moved all in for 674,000 out of the big blind. Polychronopoulos folded.
Dunst: 
Grandieri: 
Dunst was in great shape to eliminate Grandieri with his dominating pair of kings, and remained ahead after the flop (
), and the turn (
), but the river was the 
.
Grandieri made a straight to the king, and we're only left to wonder whether or not that bad beat hurt.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
595,000 | -210,000 |
|
378,000 | -228,000 |
|
250,000 | 171,000 |