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Sick of hearing poker bad beat stories? So are
we, because you know what? Life deals us bad beats everyday,
and they’re far more entertaining. Here are tales
of woe to make your flesh crawl…
During the WSOP Lifestyles Show in July of this year,
at the RIO ‘All Suites’ Hotel and Casino
in Las Vegas Nevada, we announced that we would be giving
out a free seat for next year’s Main Event. All
you had to do was get one of the bluff shirts that we
were giving away for free during the show, and then
be seen wearing it by any of our beautiful Bluff Girls
who were scoping out the area. The girls would give
you a scratch-off card, which would qualify you for
automatic entry to our prize-draw for the seat.
Ronald Shephard Jr. had been the perfect contestant.
Sporting his bluff shirt at all the right moments, he
had amassed a small army of entry cards for our drawing,
and had spent hours diligently drawing his information
on the backs of the cards, ensuring it was legible,
so if he was called there was no way anything could
go wrong.
When the time came to pick the winner, and Bluff Magazine
Co-founder Eric Morris plunged his arm into the bin
to pick out the lucky winner’s card, Ronald’s
name was called out. Now, according to the terms and
conditions, all Ronald had to do was show up at the
Bluff booth within fifteen minutes wearing the same
bluff shirt he had worn all week, and the Main Event
seat would be his. Within a couple of minutes, a beaming
Ronald races around the corner to claim his prize. BUTWAIT…he
is no longer wearing his bluff shirt.
With a cry of, “That’s gotta be the worst
bad beat in history!” Eric ruthlessly rips up
the ticket, and, to Ronald’s dismay, draws another.
Ouch! Congratulations, however, go to Scott Christoferson
from Oregon who wins his free seat for the 2005 Main
Event compliments of Bluff.
As you may know, Dan Gordon of ‘Dan’s Diary’
fame has joined the Bluff team as Assistant Editor.
You may also know that Dan is not the luckiest person
on the planet, as was clearly evident from his poker
playing stories. That being said, his recent ‘bad
beat’ may have been his most ridiculous to date.
While eating at a popular fast food joint (whose name
has been omitted because they accidentally screwed him),
Dan ordered a large sized value meal. Unbeknownst to
him, they were giving out game pieces on large-sized
items only. His order comes up and he takes his food
and sits down, at which point he realizes that they
have accidentally given him a medium fries. Meanwhile,
he hears a commotion coming from the front of the restaurant.
Apparently the girl behind him in line had just won
$1000 from the game piece on her LARGE FRIES! Man that
guy is unlucky.
‘Billinga’, a highly active member of our
online forum,(www.bluffmagazine.com/forum) was just
an average guy, working an average job in the anything
but average city of New York. Having not yet discovered
his love of Texas Hold’em, he chose to get his
thrills through playing the lottery. Every week he would
go to the same store and fill out his card with the
same numbers from the 48 possible selections. When New
York decided to change the number of possible selections
to 54, lotto players were forced to use a new lotto
card instead of the one Bill had grown accustomed to
filling out during his morning rush. After being informed
by the friendly gas station attendant that he needed
a different ticket, Bill decided that he would just
come back later and fill out a new card when he had
a few minutes spare. Things came up and he didn’t
make it back to the store that day for his new ticket.
Of course his winning numbers came up. To add insult
to injury, the store manager (who knew Bill’s
numbers by heart now) actually called him to make sure
he knew he had won. As the only winner for that week,
he would have won a World Series-esque 7.5 MILLION dollars.
To this day, Bill has not played the lottery again.
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