Unlike watching an abusive player berate an opponent or witnessing someone get bluffed out of millions, bad beat stories are only interesting when they happen to you. They’re just like a fantasy football story or a video of your kid in a play. Great for you, we don’t care.
But watching people lose poker hands to a one-outer is more like passing a car accident on the highway. You feel bad. You don’t want to look. But you can’t help yourself. These are some rough one-outs.
No. 5 — The way the hand goes, it’s nearly impossible to believe your set of sevens are no good. There are two believable hands that can beat you and you’re probably thinking you’d have been raised on the flop by someone with a pair bigger than sevens. Just brutal.
No. 4 — It’s an all-in situation. It happens.
No. 3 — This is just awful. It’s not two big hands going all-in; it’s one good hand and one blah hand with the blah hand catching his cards. But then the guy with AQ hits a three-outer, so it’s good that justice exists sometimes.
No. 2 — It’s all-in, but man quads on the river against a set of aces is just ridiculous. Also mean, quite frankly.
No. 1 — Hitting the six on the river is brutal, but here’s pro-tip: When you folded someone’s out pre-flop, you probably don’t want to announce it that because it makes it worse when the other person hits their card. You definitely don’t want to do what this guy did, which is go through the muck to find your six so you can wave it at the guy that just got knocked out because of it. You’re not helping.
Also: No. 5 was by far the worst one-outer on this list.
