It wouldn't be a bad beat...

...If I didn't have the best hand going into the flop and got outdrawn...

These two hands occured within 2 seconds of each other. I tried multi-tabling a $50 and a $5 in the steps on PP... here's how it they ended:

The first one is the $50 tournament... only the top 2 move on to the next level, but places 3 & 4 get rebuys back into the $50 level. 5 & 6 go down a level to the $20 tournament.

***** Hand History for Game 2893361742 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $50 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee Trny:16673442 Level:6 Blinds(100/200) - Monday, October 17, 23:34:37 EDT 2005
Table Mini Step 3 #1068126 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 5
Seat 1: BigHeeb91 ( $385 )
Seat 4: cwj111 ( $1965 )
Seat 3: Shuber ( $1965 )
Seat 10: wakzak99 ( $2040 )
Seat 8: mimekai ( $3645 )
Trny:16673442 Level:6
Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to BigHeeb91 [ Kc As ]
mimekai folds.
wakzak99 folds.
BigHeeb91 is all-In [385]
Shuber folds.
cwj111 calls [185].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, Td, 4h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ac ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4c ]
cwj111 shows [ 9c, Th ] a full house, Tens full of fours.
BigHeeb91 shows [ Kc, As ] two pairs, aces and tens.
cwj111 wins 870 chips from the main pot with a full house, Tens full of fours.
BigHeeb91 finished in fifth and wins Entry to Mini Step 2
BigHeeb91 has left the table.


2 seconds earlier, I was heads up with this shmuck. In the $5 tournament, only the winner goes on to the next level. 2nd place gets a re-buy back into the $5 level.

He had been making moves on me ever since we got heads up and I was just waiting for any face card. I got it, he moved all-in and I had him before the flop.

***** Hand History for Game 2893361550 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $5 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:16673149 Level:8 Blinds(200/400) -
Monday, October 17, 23:34:35 EDT 2005
Table Mini Step 1 #1068563 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 9: Clutch_One ( $6755 )
Seat 1: BigHeeb91 ( $1245 )
Trny:16673149 Level:8
Blinds(200/400)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to BigHeeb91 [ 9c Jh ]
Clutch_One is all-In [6555]
BigHeeb91 is all-In [845]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3s, 7c, 4c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 5s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]
Clutch_One shows [ Th, 7h ] two pairs, sevens and threes.
BigHeeb91 shows [ 9c, Jh ] a pair of threes.
Clutch_One wins 5510 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, sevens and threes.
Clutch_One wins 2490 chips from the main pot with two pairs, sevens and threes.
BigHeeb91 finished in second and wins Entry to Mini Step 1
BigHeeb91 has left the table.
Congratulations,Clutch_One! You won Entry to Mini Step 2.
Clutch_One has left the table.
This tournament has finished, congratulations to the winners.


Let this be a lesson to all thinking about playing these god-damned steps. Here's my stats from just these two tournaments:

Hands Dealt: 129
Hands Won: 24% (31)
Showdowns Won: 70%

--- Flop Hands ---
Flops Seen: 29% (37)
Win % if Flops Seen: 47% (17)

So the moral of the story is... You can play nearly 130 hands of perfect poker, win almost a quarter of the hands you're dealt, win almost half the hands you see the flop on, and still make absolutely no progress.

I hate this game...