Sure, there was the “four aces lost to a royal flush” incident at the Main Event in 2008, but it didn’t cost either of those guys $1 million just to get into that tournament.
According to USA Today, the World Series of Poker “Big One for One Drop” aired last night on ESPN, and it featured what could go down as the worst bad beat in poker history.
Both Connor Drinan and Cary Katz were dealt pocket aces, with Drinan getting the ace of clubs and ace of diamonds. Drinan and Katz exchanged several pre-flop raises, and Drinan was the first to go all in, thinking Katz had something like pocket kings.
But even when Katz called and flipped his set of pocket bullets, Drinan didn’t seem too busted up about it. After all, it was pocket aces against pocket aces, and that pot gets split 98% of the time.
But not this time:
Katz would eventually take home $1.3 million with an 8th place finish thanks in part to that haul. Meanwhile, Drinan finished out of the money in 18th place and might want to seek therapy after what even the ESPN analyst called “the worst beat in the history of tournament poker.”
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