Bad beats hap regularly astatine the World Series of Poker. But the 1 endured by Ricky Landais connected Wednesday was particularly painful.
The manus occurred during the $10,000 buy-in GGMillion$ No-limit Hold’em High Roller lawsuit with 22 players remaining. Bobby James raised with ace-nine and Landais, who was short-stacked with astir 5 large blinds, went all-in for his remaining 340,000 chips holding the superior ace-king.
James made a modular call, but that’s erstwhile the manus got weird.
Taking Running Bad to the Next Level
A level had to beryllium called implicit erstwhile a four-card flop was dispersed portion Ricky Landais was all-in and at-risk against Bobby James’ worse ace heavy successful the $10K GGMillions.
The ruling was correctly decided.
The 4 cards were scrambled face-down… pic.twitter.com/1Qhd14jDCP
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The flop came retired six-king-five-four. That’s right. Instead of 3 cards connected the flop, the trader accidentally dispersed 4 cards.
Landais thought helium paired his king to instrumentality a commanding pb successful the hand, but a tourney supervisor had to beryllium called to the array to marque a ruling connected the misdeal.
“This is truly bad,” commentator Joe Stapleton said connected the WSOP stream. “This is simply a atrocious omen for Landais.”
After much than 1 infinitesimal of discussion, the tourney supervisor ruled that the trader indispensable scramble the 4 cards look down and region 1 to beryllium the pain card.
When the caller three-card flop was enactment out, it was four-six-five, meaning the king was the pain paper and not successful play. Landais nary longer had a brace of kings but was inactive up successful the hand.
The crook paper was an eight, which kept Landais successful the pb with an 84 percent accidental of winning the hand.
“Don’t bash it to him,” commentator Randy Lew said earlier the last paper was exposed.
“This would beryllium pretty, beauteous brutal,” Stapleton followed.
When the trader turned implicit the 7 of clubs to springiness James the winning straight, the remaining players astatine the array gasped successful disbelief. Landais silently stood up from the table, enactment his backpack implicit his enarthrosis and walked away.
“This is not right. This is not right,” Lew said.
“This is 1 of the worst things that I person ever seen,” Stapleton said. “It’s poker, things happen, things are randomized. But that was ugly.”
Landais, a tourney grinder from Milwaukee, finished successful 22nd spot for $41,942. James went connected to instrumentality 12th spot and took location $51,258.
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