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Holding A-3 of diamonds, Montgomery pushed his remaining stack of 6.3 million. After a bit of thought, Peter Eastgate made the call with pocket sixes. After the hole cards were turned over, it looked like Montgomery would be going home. But a flop of A-4-Q gave him a commanding lead in the hand. After the turn brought another ace, Eastgate was down to two outs – or so it appeared.

At this point in the hand, Dennis Phillips decided he would tell everyone that he had mucked a six earlier pre-flop. Pocket cams showed that he indeed did muck one of the sixes, so Eastgate was down to one out, and a 2% chance of winning the hand. No one believed he had a chance, but the poker gods had other things in mind on this day.

Unbelievably, the river brought the final six, knocking out Scott Montgomery in fifth place. The crowd let out a huge gasp when the card hit the board; nobody could believe Montgomery’s bad run of luck. He still earned over $3 million, so it’s hard to feel bad for the guy. He also has one of the best all-time WSOP final table bad beat stories to tell for the rest of his life.

So now you know that bad beats like this don’t just happen at Pinnacle Sports Poker. Every game has crazy beats, even live games with hundreds of cameras on hand. Don’t feel so bad the next time you get your chips in with a big lead, only to suffer a crushing defeat. Nothing is for sure until the hand is over, or your opponent is drawing dead.

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He was in a hand against internet young gun Brian Townsend, and a member of the November Nine, Ivan Demidov. Townsend became famous for getting caught cheating online through the use of numerous user accounts on the same poker site. His online name was “Sbrugby”, but he’s mainly shifted to live tournament play over the last couple of years.

Fischman limped into the hand and was raised by Townsend, who made it 28,000 to go. Then Ivan Demidov decided that he would take a stab at the pot by raising it to 56,000. Now, most players would look at a raise and re-raise and get out of the way, but Fischman decided that he wanted the money in the pot, and raised the bet to 150,000.

After agonizing over what he should do, Townsend raised the remainder of his stack and made the call around 140,000 more for Demidov. He eventually decided that he had to get out of the way and mucked his hand. Fischman was pot-committed and he made the call for the remaining 44,000. To everyone’s surprise, Fischman turned over 10-2 off-suit against Townsend’s K-K.

The board came out 3-6-A-K-10 and Townsend’s kings held up. Fischman lost a good percentage of his stack, which dropped down to 265,000 after the hand was finished. Only he knew what he was thinking, but Brian Townsend was happy to see his stack climb to 355,000.

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