Player Allegedly Mucks $126k Bad Beat Hand at Encore Boston Harbor

i would have gone to town on that dealer

How do you get quad jacks vs a "royal straight flush" (I assume they just mean regular straight flush) with a board of 872Jhh?

edit: I guess that's just a random board that they're showing for some reason and not the board the fan happened on

Yeah, it's just a random photo of another hand which adds nothing but confusion to an already confusing story.

I don't get it. If the guy mucked, how do we know what he had? If he showed, how was the bad beat not awarded? Or was it one of those incidents where he shows he neighbor without properly tabled the hand before mucking it?

Also not sure how a dealer "takes the players cards and inadvertently throws them in the muck"- It's a cash game not a tourney, the dealer isn't going to take the players cards and flip them over, of course they're going in the muck.

If he said he had quads or showed them to someone everyone would be telling him to immediately table the hand. So I guess he said something after the hand was mucked, then everyone realized it, though I'm not sure how we know for sure that he actually did have quads.

If no table security camera picked up that the player had quad jacks, then how is casino supposed to award the bad beat? Oh because the player double pinky-swears that’s what he had lol.

Instantly reminds me of "hold 'em – regular and Texas."

You can't blame the dealer if you don't show your hand. Of course he mucks the hand when you don't show or say anything.

Board: Jh Jd Qd Ad 2c

Player A: JcJs

Player B: KdTd

There's a story out of Oklahoma from LONG ago where a Player slow played their way into a table share instead of the big portion of the BBJ .. QQ v KK v AJ with AJ hitting a Royal on the River.

Board .. Q♥Q♠K♥ .. K♦ .. T♥

No betting Flop or Turn .. lost a lot of money as AJ says they would've folded to any bet .. GL

PS .. If JJ wasn't tabled there's no BBJ award. Card funerals, even if picked up by camera, aren't good enough per most Promo language.

PSS .. My buddy did muck a BBJ winner once .. AAATT was beat by Quads.

Hard to believe since this myth has been floating around 2p2 and card rooms forever. From the classic rich old lady mucks the winner because the young punk with the loser was a jerk to her — to the first time player not knowing what a BBJ is, while people scream for the player to just table their hand but the player doesn’t know what table means and mucks.

Either the hand was tabled or it wasn’t, the Dealer and cameras decide that.

there are not so smart people everywhere, including the poker table.

Story seems fishy to me. No way a first time player folds trip jacks, nevermind quads.

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Yea this. No "first time player" would look at quads and muck. Even if realizing he lost before tabling he would show the table the bad beat 100% even without knowing about BBJ.

Sounds like he mucked after being shown the SF at showdown.

Yes, he knows how this is possible. He’s saying the board in the picture doesn’t fit the scenario and it isn’t possible to accomplish the hand discussed based on the pictured board.

Also, I agree with most here that this story is bogus and used for clicks/engagement on social media.

Still... People who muck after seeing a better hand are not "first timers" - especially big cooler hands. Ive played in a lot of beginner games. The only time beginners dont want to show their hand is when they are caught bluffing. Any actual novice, nevermind "first timer", getting quads and losing would be out of their chair in shock trying to get affirmation from everyone at the table about what an insane bad beat they just suffered.

Yeah story seems sus, a newbie would show and an experienced player would show just in case there’s a bbjp

It could have meant first timer in the room?

But yeah, story seems suspect. I've also heard several variations: rich lady mucking out of spite is best story, IMO.

Or the best story might be the one where the losing hand realizes they just won the bad beat jackpot. They excitedly turn over their hand and throw it down on the table, causing one of the cards to bounce off the table and end up on the ground. Floor rules no jackpot.

Can't forget the urban legend of the two college frat buddies who just checked it down in the blinds because they were friends and made quads over quads but there wasn't enough in the pot.

The first time I ever played casino poker I dropped my wife off at a movie she wanted to see but i didn’t, so she agreed I could go play poker with a few hundred dollars at the nearby casino. I was sat at a 4-8 table where a chip runner brought me a couple racks of these strangely bland white chips. I remember how unnerving it was that everyone seemed to know each other, especially the Asians and that at first I worried they were teaming up against me in hands.

Fortunately I had read my Phil Hellmuth poker book so I knew I had to play tight and I waited for good hands, and won some small pots. Finally I got a big hand, JJ and raised. But the best player at the table, an Asian gentleman who seemed to win most of the pots, reraised me. Clearly all I could do was call as we went to the flop.

Flop: AAA

I knew that must be one of the worst flops possible for my hand because Phil had said good players often reraise with big aces. So I checked, and as if confirming my fears the Asian card shark bet. I could not think of a hand I could beat but i wasn’t good enough to fold jack’s for one bet so I called.

The turn was a little card and I checked again and he bet again. Something was very wrong and I felt strange but I couldn’t put my finger on it, so I still called again.

The river was another small card. Again I checked, again he bet. It was so strange that it was surreal and I realized the entire table had gone quiet during the hand and now every single player was staring at me. Then I knew what had to be happening. It was so obvious he had the ace that even the table knew it, there was no way he could bet three times on an ace high board without holding an ace. They all saw that I was a sucker and couldn’t believe I was so dumb. But I finally mustered the strength to do what I knew Phil would have done on the flop and folded my jacks. Even the dealer was so disgusted with my play that he almost refused to take my cards.

As soon as I did however the old lady next to me demanded to know what I had. Jacks, I told her and before the words had finished leaving my mouth the table exploded. You folded a jackpot someone screamed. What’s a jackpot I asked? Then it was explained to me the rules of their bad beat jackpot, how when aces full of tens (or better) were beaten the table shared in a bunch of money and how I would have gotten half of it.

They were so angry I became frightened for my safety but they weren’t mad at me. They turned their wrath on that canny Asian shark screaming he should have known better, wiping the smile off his face and I think making him worry for his safety.

Me, I no longer had the heart to play another hand so I racked up and drove back to the movie theatre to pick up my wife.

When she got into the car she asked, “how did you do?” In my funk I replied, “I lost $4,500” and she was so shocked that she blurted out “You are NEVER playing poker again!”

Wait, I said. Let me explain.

In the rich old lady version I heard she returns to the table and gives everyone what would have amounted to a table share. Of course the punk is left out.

That board has very few 8s and 7s

0% chance dude had quads, desperate angling for chance at BBJ lol.

Imagine if he mucks one jack and says I mucked exactly J of diamonds J of hearts, they always look at maybe the top 3 or 4 cards to check right. So they they turn over his jack, then there’s like a 25:1 they find the other one and he scam luckboxes the BBJ.

Dude who actually mucked that jack coming for his half in the car park.