99% Loses! Worst Bad Beat in WSOP History? | $50,000 Poker Players Championship | 2019 WSOP

[@Koest2Koest]

Simple rules explanation: -In this game, the WORST usual hold'em hand wins. therefore 2,3,4,5,7 is the best possible hand. (notice it's not a straight! Pairs, flushs, and straights are bad!) -each round of betting, players may 'exchange' as many cards as they please (0 through all 5), which the dealer replaces with a new card. In "triple draw" there are 3 rounds of exchanges. This hand is bonkers because Abieh is dealt 3,5,6,x,x. In this game you almost NEVER exchange a 6 because it is an amazing card, however, right off the bat Yockey beats any hand that even holds a 6. Arieh does ultimately gets rid of the 6 because he makes a straight (2-6..... remember straights are bad!) In this scenario a player will ditch the highest 'valued' card, which in this case is the 6. To replace that 6 he got a 7, giving him a "wheel', the best possible hand. In conclusion, Arieh draws the exact cards he needed in the exact order he did (3 rounds of draws!!) to make the best possible hand, beating Yockey's second best possible hand

[@thatguyjohnny8235]

Just in case no one else says it, thanks bro

[@Koest2Koest]

@@thatguyjohnny8235 I appreciate it!

[@strashny2205]

Man, you're a legend. Thanks

[@ozzy2476]

What’s this game called?

[@Koest2Koest]

@@ozzy2476 2-7 triple draw

[@swalker9482]

I play alot of Holdem. Have to admit I have no idea what's going on. So I'll take your word for it

[@shawnd980]

Huh?

[@dayanordonez6876]

@@shawnd980 23457 is the worst hand cause it's the lowest ranking "straight" that could possibly be made with the highest lowest card "6".. that's how I understand it

[@ShutDFckOff]

@c b But then they kept saying "wheel" which to me, as a Omaha Hi/Lo player is 12345, which is a straight, LOL.

[@dayanordonez6876]

@c b Since I don't fully understand the game I try to self explain in a different manner

[@d-24]

After all these explaining.. i still dont understand LOL.

[@mslewin]

"I feel your pain" "NO he doesn't" LMAO Nick S keeps it so real

[@tinot5093]

Played with him Esposito guy. He angles a lot. Feels like it's normal for him.

[@NikeMike80]

Yea what an idiot to come up laughing and smiling talking about “I feel your pain”…talk about having no feel at all. What a clown

[@jonathantripp9252]

@@tinot5093 He said it with the biggest grin across his face, almost laughing. Wasn't even trying to hide his delight as he said it

[@badkarmabaroo]

“He feels $140k pay ladder is what he feels.” Haha

[@NikeMike80]

Yea what an idiot comes up laughing smiling talkin about “I feel your pain”, talk about having no feel at all, clown

[@chriss4836]

No clue wtf is goin on here. Seems like the dealer just randomly deals 1 card at a time until some bad shit happens. Lmao

[@poopydoodie11]

Its like old school poker. 5 card draw, with limit betting. There are three betting rounds after each draw (Hence triple draw. Single draw is played no limit) They are playing low ball so the best low hand wins. There are a few different types of low ball, but they are specifically playing 2-7 where aces are high and straights count as high hands(there are variants of lowball where aces are low and straights don't count) so the best possible hand is 2345-7, also known as a wheel. Bryce yockey was dealt the 2nd best possible hand in this game 23467 and did not have to draw at all, also known as a pat hand. The other guy sucked out and drew to make the best possible hand to beat him. It's even crazier because some of his outs were already dead.

[@Larez121]

poopydoodie11 Well said, covered everything.

[@Aaeie]

@@Larez121 I agree explained so well

[@octodaddy8322]

Why that dealer tried to give him the discard twice is beyond me

[@chickengrizzle]

@@octodaddy8322 He didn’t. If you look at all the draws, there’s a specific placement for the discard until you get your new card; then the dealer collects your discard. Josh tossed it int the muck and the dealer put it back where it was supposed to be until he took his card in.

[@Samibien]

it's like flopping quad Aces and the other dude ends up catching Royal Flush. face palm

[@fatboy1333]

It's not even that Good...Its Flopping an A-5 Straight Flush and the other guy catches runner runner to get a Royal Flush

[@liamgannon2345]

It’s like somebody flops quads and the other person runner runners a royal.

[@ulosen]

@Ryan Gallagher No? You can catch royal without being a runner runner

[@RealAnthonyJones]

@@ulosen correct, but for it to playout the way this hand did, it needs to be runner runner.

[@jamesdemile4181]

I was looking for this comment. I guarantee 98% of us didn’t want to comment and ask what was going on

[@seangarner2687]

For those questioning how sick of a beat this is, I hope I can be of assistance. To start, Arieh is drawing to a losing hand. If he catches perfectly he would have 76532 (No. 3) which could lose to Yockey's 76432 (No. 2), and Yockey would surely double. For those asking the eqiuvalent in NL or PLO, there really isn't one because you can't be effectively drawing dead in either game and win. On the first draw, Arieh pretty much has to catch a deuce in his two-card draw. 7's and 4's won't really help him, because they would leave him open-ended. He would either have to fold or continue drawing two. If he makes an 8 or a 9 lo, he is simply forced to stand pat and pay Yockey off. On the second draw, Arieh MUST catch one of the three remaining fours to have any hope. Unbeknownst to Arieh, he has to pitch his six to win the hand, an absolutely absurd idea to anyone that has played any form of 2-7, and the only card that will make him break his six is a four, because it gives Arieh a straight, which is very bad in 2-7. After throwing away his six, Arieh is simply seven-hunting, he loses on every other card. In summation, Arieh needs to hit a six outer (because he has two pulls at the three deuces remaining in the deck) followed by two three-outers, and they have to go in perfect sequence. It is insane, and there is no beat like this in any other game.

[@aarbar6615]

Its like flopping quads vs over pair and losing to running quads. 1% is not 0% it does show up

[@fuggybootnling]

@@aarbar6615 I think it's even more ridiculous than that, because it's not just runner runner, it's runner-runner-runner BUT in a specific order. He draws a seven first or second the hand is over. And as Sean said really he needed the deuce first to really feel confident in the hand. 6543 is kind of a sucker hand in deuce to seven.

[@nich3683]

All of this in summary^^: it’s not a 1% chance. It’s worse than a .06% chance. 6 in 10,000. Tell me again, what’s the chance of quads running into back door quads?

[@brendanboyle493]

absolutely disgusting.. final table of WSOP PC too wtaf

[@fuggybootnling]

@J K Honestly it's a really interesting game the more you unwrap it. Card elimination situations, bluff spots, a concept called snowing...I'm at the point where playing nothing but Hold 'Em for years is just boring, I want to learn these games. Don't take this situation as anything at ALL typical. I've played...maybe 3000 hands of 2-7 online and I've been dealt a pat seven (five cards seven and under without a straight) once. That's the other consideration of this ridiculous hand. You get pocket aces I believe one in 227 hands or so in hold 'em...a pat seven is just off the scale!

[@danielospina6407]

This is live commentary gold from Nick and Ali here. Exceptional.

[@martinsgavars4262]

Swearing on mother's live by commentator is nothing appreciative.

[@longdong3972]

This guy wasn’t 1%, he was .2% other dudes chances of winning that initial deal is 99.8%

[@ShutDFckOff]

If you go review his LATB cameos, he had a lot of bad beats there too. But when if look him up in Poker Hendon Mob, this guy is a beast, 2.5 million in live earnings. I always like his pressure plays in LATB. Andy, Garret, Jerry, El Joel and him - the best LATB cash gamers.

[@ShutDFckOff]

Phil Helmuth : He called me with a 356, honey!

[@jordanmokricky8328]

He had to hit two 3 outers in a row just to not be drawing dead, then he has to hit another 3 outer to win the hand. There’s 42 cards left in the deck at this point (52 - 10 cards in their hands). Mathematically it’s 3/42 x 3/41 x 3/40 and that comes to 27 / 68880 times he will win the hand. If you divide you get 0.0004%. So this is actually a lot less than just .2%

[@davio14]

@@jordanmokricky8328 You have to take into account which decision he would make depending on the cards he is dealt. He starts out with AQ653 and draws 2 cards. At this point he may pat anything 9 or under, maybe a T. If he is dealt any of those cards, the hand probably ends and there is no bad beat. But he gets dealt Q2, so he now has Q6532. At this point he will probably still stand pat if he gets a 9, 8, 7, maybe a T, again ending the hand without a bad beat. He needs to get exactly the 2-6 straight after the first or second draw to make him dump the 6 and be able to make the wheel, 23457.

[@deepowls7873]

@@jordanmokricky8328, the odds are a little better than 0.2%. For the last two draws, Arieh needed to get a 4 and then a 7 in that order. Ignoring the other two players' hands, the odds of getting a 4 was 3/40 in the second draw. The odds of getting the 7 was 3/39. That means the odds with two draws remaining were 3/520 or 0.577%. To get there, Arieh needed to draw a 2 or a 4 in the first draw without drawing a 7¹, 8, or probably a 9. Odds of hitting exactly one of those would be 2 * 6/42 * 30/41 = 60/287 = 20.9%. Odds of hitting both a 2 and a 4 would be 6/42 * 3/41 = 3/287 = 1.045%. If the conditions for Arieh to continue on past the first draw with a chance to win were "Draw at least one of a 2 or a 4, but not a 7, 8, or 9" then those were a hair under 22%. The odds of Arieh winning via the drawing exactly one 2 or 4, but no 7-9, on the first draw is 60/287 * 3/520 = 180/149,240 = 0.1206% If Arieh hit both the 2 and the 4 in the first draw, he would have two chances to draw one of the remaining 7s. However, he could not hit one of the four 8s or 9s on the second draw since he'd presumably stand pat. That comes to 3/40 + (29/40 * 3/39) = 204/1560 = 17/130 = 13.08%. So, the odds of Arieh winning via the "hit both the 2 and 4 in the first draw and hit the 7 in the next two draws" method is 3/287 * 17/130 = 51/37,310 = 0.137%. I calculate the overall odds at 0.1206% + 0.137% = 0.257% or 1-in-388.6. ---- ¹ Reviewing my work, I see that I'm ignoring the case of Arieh hitting the 7 and 4, making 7-high straight. I assume he'd toss the 6 in this case. Keeping the 6 and tossing the 7 would make better 8s and 9s, but risks making a straight with a 2. I never learned how to play 2-7 Triple Draw correctly, but tossing the 6 from the 7-high straight presumably is right. Anyway, this means Arieh's odds are better than 1-in-388.6, but not quite twice as good. I saw a PokerGoNews article that had the odds at 99.84% or 1-in-625. They may be correct and I made a mistake, but they didn't show their work.

[@jovio777]

2:55 did the commentator just said "holy f*ck"??

[@alexherrera84]

Yeah so what

[@1989jnicks]

He sure did and they didn't censor it. Times have changed with censoring out foul language. Lol

[@andrewwatson8591]

This would basically be like you have 34 of clubs in hold em The flop comes A25 all clubs you flopped a straight flush and you get it all in against king queen of clubs and it runs out 10 of clubs Jack of clubs and he makes a royal flush

[@stephen41467]

That is the closest comparison we can have in NLH. Josh drawing to 356 is already drawing dead. And the only possible way we ditches the 6 is if he draws a 2 and 4. So he basically hits 3 streets of perfection. Absolutely gross

[@LIONTAMER3D]

i agree that your comment is the best hold'em comparison, but the math here is WAY worse; Josh is drawing to cards the other guy has AND needs 3 cards to come perfect, not 2 lol

[@tetrakfecn6864]

@@LIONTAMER3D it's not that much, royal flush is 0.1% in this case, the wheel is 0,047%

[@LIONTAMER3D]

@@tetrakfecn6864 "not that much"? that's less than half as much lol. also, the math is way worse: runner-runner-runner, not runner-runner & all while the opponent has the cards josh needs to catch locked up, so he's drawing to fewer outs to runner-runner-runner with. it's almost as is someone designed the ULTIMATE bad beat: losing with kk on a kk2 board to aa that hits running case aces to overquad kk is FAR more likely to happen than this =/

[@tetrakfecn6864]

@@LIONTAMER3D yes I can see that and that's how I calculated it

[@rdtworld9720]

Considering this is the final table of the 50K and the hand itself, this has to be considered the worst bad beat in tournament poker I believe

[@aro327]

No a worst best would having this happen on the first day and you get no money.

[@rdtworld9720]

@@aro327 Eh, not really. Most tournaments you end up without money. Very rarely, maybe even once in a lifetime, does one make the final few of the 50K PPC.

[@aro327]

@@rdtworld9720 yeah and if you get a bad beat you still end up with money. You get a bad beat on day 1 you lose 50 k.

[@rdtworld9720]

@@aro327 you're losing way less in EV at that point. You've already won the money in Yockleys case. The bad beat costs him much more. They are independent events.

[@TP_Gillz]

@@aro327 100% disagree. not even freaking close. any tournament you play your way more likely to finish outside the money, and in every single tournament ever ran someone always busts early or has a bad beat early.... getting to the final table of a bracelet event only for one of the most unlikely of bad beats to happen, is WAY WAY worse dude.

[@BluffinBTN]

you know this is a big deal with how flabbergasted nick schulman is when the arieh gets there... thats the most emotional i've ever heard him and i have a subscription to pokergo

[@elmeringles8442]

Yeah, that was wierd. "I wanna cry" and "no he doesn't, he feels none if it". As if that commentator (of all people) had any emotion invested in it.

[@HeliosDroneWorks]

Schumann is a legendary grinder, he can relate to a player going through this while playing for a ring. Are you able to do that? That’s why he is a top level commentator

[@elmeringles8442]

@@HeliosDroneWorks I'm sure a player at the actual table with him playing for the same ring would be able to relate as well; but fine, I'll take your word for it. Nick's heart "bled" for Bryce.

[@elmeringles8442]

@@HeliosDroneWorks LMFAO, not anymore!

[@pacojuanrico]

@@elmeringles8442 he had joked of what actually ended up happening, happenig... Therefore, he was somewhat uncomfortable even having 2defend himself as someone who knew or had knowledge of this hand prior 2da hand being played out...i.e., it was setup 2go that way... It was genuine and shocking on a few levels and has unsettled my intrigue in2 Limit 2-7 TripDraw

[@skymanross]

So he basically needs to hit two 3 outers in a row, just so he can be not drawing dead, and live to hit another 3 outer... Jesus Christ

[@TreyMK12]

Zach Ross as a No Limit Hold em player thank you, this put it into perspective. top comment!

[@anthonydemarco128]

Now I want to vomit

[@Jenger420]

Not just 3 outers.. 3 outers.. in that exact same order for him to continue without folding. If he didn't hit a 247 in that order, it never wold make showdown.

[@skymanross]

@@Jenger420 yes which is why in each instance it is hitting a 3 outer and not a 9 outer. Definitely makes it more unlikely the fact that they happened in perfect sequence though

[@JasonEmerson711]

Perfect Perfect Perfect In that order.

[@andrewcampbell9695]

0:22 "There is a road to a win for Josh by the way the deuce four slides in" 0:40 "The four seven still could come in" 0:57 "Oh my god" (as Nick realizes Josh has now successfully spiked two 3 outers in a row, and has a chance to scoop if he hits the 7) 1:53 "I swear on my Mother's life I didn't know that this was going to happen man I was just kidding around" Nick's commentary is and always has been the best!!!!!

[@onlyweatherlol93]

🤣🤣🤣

[@torinira.9269]

Actually, the 4 was a four outer. Yockey did not have a 4 in his hand. He had 23567.

[@markfizz2012]

​@@torinira.9269Yockey has the 4c in his hand.

[@rgncal4872]

This is cracking a royal flush with jokers being dealt to you

[@torinira.9269]

For those that don't understand why the order of cards Arieh received was so important: If the 4 comes first, Arieh folds because he's got an open-ended straight draw. If the 7 comes, he'd continue, but pat if the 2 was next (with the third best hand, which loses) and fold if the 4 comes. Only the 2 would see him continue to showdown with a chance to win. Second draw: If the 7 comes after hitting the 2, Arieh would pat with the third best hand and lose the pot. The 4 hitting makes the 2-6 straight and he's forced to reduce. Final draw sees the runout complete.

[@cyrannodb]

If Phil Hellmouth ended up on the losing end of this, he would have flipped the table.

[@Potterholic1]

You're kidding, right? Hellmuth would have killed someone if this happened to him.

[@OtakuLogan2017]

Nah nah im sure Hellmuth would be cool with it, Arieh played it better than most would, even if he got totally lucky

[@pacolozano6499]

@@Potterholic1😂😂😂 Helmuth would have started WW3 if this happened to him 😂😂😂

[@youngdoodle]

@@OtakuLogan2017there is really no other way to play arieh's hand

[@mikeydimes8300]

“I swear on my mother’s life I didn’t know this was going to happen!” Lmao

[@jasonkoch3182]

Yes, this is, in fact, a bad beat.

[@santiagod.9679]

I did the maths and chances of winning the hand after the first change of cards were around 0.55%. So from the beggining, he had wide less than 0.55% of winning that hand. This situation it's similar or even equal to the worst bad beat possible on Texas Holdem, which is 0,10% of losing the hand: a 1 outer 2 street runner-runner, which is equal to flopping quads, going all in against 2 Aces, then comes Ace and Ace on the turn and river giving a higher quads to the other player. Or also flopping straight flush and losing-drawing against a higher backdor staight flush. This isn't sickness, this is death.

[@deepowls7873]

For the last two draws, Arieh needed to get a 4 and then a 7 in that order. Ignoring the other two players' hands, the odds of getting a 4 was 3/40 in the second draw. The odds of getting the 7 was 3/39. That means the odds with two draws remaining were 3/520 or 0.577%, which is close to what you had. The overall odds aren't quite the 989:1 running quads situation in Holdem, but it's pretty awful. I calculated it as 0.257% or 1-in-388.6, except that was before recognizing that if Arieh drew a 7 and 4 for a 7-high straight, he would toss the 6 and could make the wheel that way. It's still a grotesque beat.

[@pacolozano6499]

@@deepowls7873 sick grotesque death. It's all of it for sure. 1 in 400, 1 in 1,000...we're splitting the sickest skeletal hairs at this point.

[@Tom214]

For non-poker players, this is like guessing a coin-flip correctly 9 times in a row. While that might not seem super crazy to you, keep in mind, every time you are wrong, a point goes to Yockey and you start over from flip 1 again. You can only give a point to Arieh if you get 9 in a row correctly. ANY wrong answer before 9 wins in a row and another point goes to Yockey no matter if it is your 1st flip or 9th, and you start over again. Go get a coin and keep score and see what you come up with. By the odds, the score you record for each player is how often these players should respectively win this particular hand of poker.

[@supersomebody101]

i thought it was second degree filth...i'm glad he cleared that up

[@tonyflow6244]

Johnny Gleason it’s true what they say, irony is wasted on the stupid...

[@JohnDoe-gw9vs]

Johnny Gleason you’re a little slow ain’t ya

[@fromhereon]

There won't be a worse beat this year, safe money

[@MrPing1000]

We may never see a beat worse than this ever. Theres nothing that approaches as big a beat as this in nlhe or plo, and those are the games we'll see televised most.

[@thumpmasterTRE]

MrPing1000 runner runner quads against flopped quads is a worse beat i’ve seen online and in live cash

[@MrPing1000]

@@thumpmasterTRE I don't think you understand how insane this beat. is. he had to draw 2 (or 4) then a 4 (or 2) to make a straight, then throw the 6 and get a 7. Yockey is holding all of those cards plus if he hits an 85 or 765 he'd have patted and lost. Quads losing to runner runner quads is the closest equivilent in hold'em but I'd expect the math on this makes it a bigger beat (would love to see someone provide the numbers)

[@onlyVGN]

@@thumpmasterTRE Nope this is worse beat than that

[@darron614]

It's very possibly that there will never be a worse beat than this based on the statistics of it.

[@bowlchamps37]

I wished Arieh played this hand vs. Helmuth and Tony G for the title.

[@monsterstackwizard9313]

"This dealer is just incredible, I mean this is just unbelievable, I haven't won one hand."

[@happypappy2188]

This is why we play Holdem 😂 tf is going on here

[@insertcolorherehawk3761]

The 50k Player's is considered the *toughest* WSOP event of the season for a reason

[@richn.1860]

It's like you flop Quads and the other guy makes higher quads...BUT along the way the dealer burns and turns before the action complete on turn and river, reshuffling each time to bring back the same card each time.

[@TP_Gillz]

BTW, dear PokerGo, PLEASE SHOW MORE MIXED GAMES! These are WAY more entertaining to watch the pros play! We need more mixed games to watch!

[@TheJRB888]

4 years later he gets 1 outed to scoop at the final table of the same tourney in Omaha HiLo. At least this time it wasnt to eliminate him. Geez

[@2011Feijao]

I have no idea about what just happened lol I barely knows NL Hold'em 😂😂

[@steventhomas5380]

BULLSHIT

[@strangelyrepulsive77]

u try to make the worst hand in holdem with 5 cards

[@bobloblaw7030]

this is 2-7 triple draw, the whole point is to make the worst possible hand.....the one guy made 2nd worst hand possible and the other guy hit 3 perfect cards in a row to make absolute worst hand possible.....also he gave up the 6 at the end because the first 2 perfect cards he needed gave him a straight which made him discard the 6 and got a 7 instead which gave him the win with worst possible hand you can make in this game

[@mrsock55]

@Jdub Smooth Way worse than that. It's like half as likely as needing running quads, i.e. you have KK vs AA and flop is A59, and you hit KK to win. Still half as likely as that.

[@2011Feijao]

So weird... If you have to make the worst game possible to WIN it end up being the best lol

[@kylehaun8192]

This hand is like hitting a set in hold em on 3 consecutive flops

[@jamisonferritto6173]

Anyone here after Yockey getting crushed with a 7 card straight flush against DNegs in another 50k PPC? He was holding a full house, 3rd nuts with blocker on the quad 8. Another incredibly bad beat, poor guy.

[@7s0x]

The final table of the 2019 World Series of Poker $50,000 Poker Players Championship produced quite possibly the worst bad beat in poker history as Bryce Yockey saw a 99.843% hand turn into dust when Josh Arieh beat him on the final draw in 2-7 Triple Draw.

[@MattAronowitz]

How does this clip exist but the full episode is nowhere to be found on PokerGo?

[@kevinkendrick1361]

Just had 8,5,4,3,2 vs 7,3 all in for my tournament life on the last draw (my opponent was snowing quad 7s and broke when I went all in) and my opponent drew the 2 6 5 and busted me. I was a 99.32 percent favorite. Reminded me of this beat when Bryce was a 99.8 percent favorite, and now I know the pain he felt.

[@Irishkilla79]

The amount of luck that Arieh needed and got was ridiculous. Yockey PAT with# 2 from the deal and Arieh got there with every draw. That's insane.

[@Justinsatiable]

Watched it like 3 times and no idea what happened still

[@krt88nc]

He drew perfect on every draw! Wow to be dealt the #2 and then have that happen.

[@Ben_the_Rosafan]

This is lowball, the object is to have the worst hand.

[@kingsally2864]

straights and flushes count against you, that's why on the last draw Josh broke his 23456, when he was asking "if a straight was good?" he was joking around realizing that vs a patted hand he's in trouble.

[@richn.1860]

@Stang5.0 killsya correct, straights & flushes count against you. That's why the 6,5,4,3,2 was no good and he threw the 6 away

[@HipsterDoofus100]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Me too

[@vasool82]

I thought this only happens on pokerstars

[@jephthahtait2826]

I feel your pain. He’s smiling n giggling at the same time.

[@Daniel-dy2zr]

"He felt that 140k pay jump" 😂

[@christopherwooten4882]

Yeah that was the most disingenuous statement ever.

[@ilijapetkovski]

Could this be the worst bad beat in poker history ?? I think it could ....

[@harperusyt420]

oh i think its up there with the royal vs quad aces from a while back.. poker is brutal🤣

[@rgncal4872]

This is worse than the royal beating quad aces because he has to triple draw and hit those exact cards all 3 times. This is a royal flush in 2 to 7. And getting dealt pat 2 omg! Like cracking aces with jokers more like it

[@BradleyT2p2]

@@harperusyt420 Everyone loves Raymer.

[@mickeymike5179]

To the people that don't know whats going on here. 2-7 triple draw consist of each player getting dealt 5 cards to begin. the objective is to make the worse poker hand possible using low cards. Ace is highest card like always so Aces are bad. your main objective is to get the 2,3,4,5 and 7. 6 also but don't make a straight. don't make a flush, and don't make pairs. after the first 5 cards are dealt you have 3 chances to exchange cards you don't want/need, like if you have an Ace or face cards or pair you want to get rid of those and exchange them in hopes of getting other lower cards you don't have yet. betting occurs between draws if you want to continue to exchange cards or stand pat meaning you don't want to exchange any cards and you are okay with what you have.

[@rgncal4872]

For Hold um, this beat would be like you have 2,3 diamonds board is a45 of diamonds and he has 67 with only the 6 diamonds and get a run out 7 and 8 of diamonds,board is A45 7 8 he hits a 8 high str8 flush to your suited flopped wheel str8 flush

[@Josh-zw9bj]

na its much worse, much much worse...he basically 0% just to not be drawing dead by the last draw

[@rgncal4872]

@@Josh-zw9bj and I agree I just was trying to make a possibility as close as possible, this would be like running it twice and the same cards coming again whice is impossible, that's how bad this was

[@Simon-nv5zj]

its way worse than that

[@rgncal4872]

@@Simon-nv5zj cant even resemble this beat in hold um, as in the bad beat omg impossible run outs we see time and time again, I was just trying to think of flopping the nuts and a ridiculous 2 case card run out to compare

[@farisiq]

I once lost a hand, raising KJ on the button, BB 3bets with 88, i call, flop comes KKJ, for some unknown reason he jams flop, i call, turn 8, river 8. that beat might have been worse than that.

[@jblow9275]

Lost in the complicated math of this beat is that josh can also NEVER get an 8 because he will never toss it back. . .possibly even a 9

[@TP_Gillz]

I remember watching this live chuckling when Nick "predicted" him pitching the 6. When it happened even I felt sick to my stomach for Yockey. Good lord, imagine getting delt the #2 and seeing your op ditch 2 cards, then 1, AND FLIP AN EFFING WHEEL!!! haha holy crap, if anyone ever has a bad beat again, just watch this video and you will feel better!

[@derekho7720]

Yeah, it is so brutal.

[@RealAnthonyJones]

The dealer kept it together real well but he looked like he even felt bad for the guy. Oh well time to go cry into a few hundred thousand.

[@jfriend349]

Closest compared to Hold em is you get it in as a 99% favorite and get beat by runner runner but I think it's even worse. Absolutely BRUTAL

[@harperusyt420]

I wonder how phil hellmuth wouldve reacted........

[@aarbar6615]

Honey he called me drawing 2 vs the second nuts. Stupid European 😉

[@AeroscopeAviation]

All the Hold-Em players are so confused while watching this right now!

[@davidelet3652]

It is like having quad aces in nlhe and someone catching a fifth ace to make the deck and the hand invalid...

[@X-2357-GandalfTheGreen]

Lol the announcers are like "holy fuck"

[@johnkarford6430]

When a commentator says holy fuck u know its bad

[@den_525]

I have no idea what’s going on here... but I’ll assume based on reactions it was a sick beat

[@putz31682]

the object of the game is to have the lowest cards possible that is not a straight, ace is considered high only. you are dealt 7 cards overall, 4 are up for everybody to see and 3 are down for you to see. There are no community cards. Hopefully that helps you know whats going on a little better. So best hand possible is 7 5 4 3 2, as a 6 5 4 3 2 is a straight. the hand in question is 7 6 4 3 2 vs 7 5 4 3 2. but how he got to the 7 5 4 3 2 was insane.

[@den_525]

@@putz31682 thanks sean!! How many times can you swap cards with the dealer? and how many cards at a time?

[@glennhagstedt]

@@putz31682 eeh no, you are wrong, that is not 2-7 lowball, no cards are up for everybody to see, you are dealt 5 cards face down, and then you have 3 changes, one for each betting round. You are explaining a stud game, which is not this game.

[@-dopeamine-5772]

@@putz31682 you obviously know the game very well. Thanks for setting things straight🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ubs0]

Sean Nichols you’re close. What you are talking about is razz, drawn out like 7 card stud, but opposite rankings basically. This is 7-2 lowball, drawn out like 5 card draw, but worst hand wins. (Ie chuck out cards you don’t want n pick up new cards, no one but you can see what you have.)

[@Joel-js2gk]

This game looks super interesting, gotta look into it and learn more about it. Do cash games of this kind exist?

[@aarbar6615]

It runs on poker stars, you will likely only find live casino action in Vegas

[@aarbar6615]

Also it is only limit for triple draw but don't underestimate the swings. It's one of the biggest swing limit games there is.

[@HipsterDoofus100]

No, only play money games

[@nix4114]

yes - mostly in Mix games. mix is played all over. played it last week

[@joonpak]

So deuce is lowest therefore 23457 is the nuts with 23467 being the second nuts?

[@jasonbatteiger2421]

yep, 76 perfect was dealt to yockey (hand number 2). 76432

[@DM-ke7vo]

I’ve no idea he said he’s got a wheel? I got 4 on my car? What’s the point?

[@InneWinneCinema]

Wheel is called the best combination of cards you can get in this game

[@TwoBlueOlives]

2:56 did nick shulman just say "holy fuck" on commentary lol

[@DutchBoyd80]

Couldn't help but LOL when the commentary @ 2:55 is just "Holy Fuck!" And how big his smile is when the dude is telling Bryce "I feel your pain!" "No he doesn't. He feels none if it." This is why I love poker.

[@iNewBroGaming]

You would have to do something truly terrible in your life to be cursed with that amount of bad luck.

[@chrischappa962]

Simplest explanation. 1. Josh can’t win as long as he keeps the 6. The only chance he has to win is to draw to 75432. 2. The ONLY way Josh will discard the 6 is if he draws both a 2 AND a 4 (OR both a 4 AND a 7, which Nick doesn’t mention). 3. Even if he does draw a 2 AND a 4, and THEN discards the 6, he MUST catch a 7 (or, had he drawn a 4 AND a 7, he discards the 6, and can only win if he draws a 2.). So many unlikely things happening back-to-back-to-back makes this a worse bad beat than any hold’em situation. In hold’em, the worst spot you can be in on the flop is to need to hit the exact two right cards on the turn and river. For example, AK vs A7 on K92 board, no flush draws, with one 7 dead in the muck. AK is 99.89% to win. I haven’t done the math on this triple draw hand, but three unlikely events in a row is almost always less likely than two unlikely events in a row.

[@ashmanresells5816]

I was thoroughly confused I'm glad to see I wasnt alone

[@androSS.]

You could see it on the dealer’s face.. he feels absolutely crushed for Bryce.

[@0P0deros0Castiga]

Translate to Hold'em, is a Royal vs Straight Flush

[@DaveyJonesLocka]

More like draw poker with three draws. You’re dealt a king high straight flush. Opponent starts with two to a royal and gets there.

[@djshuffl3r]

I gotta try this game sometime

[@0newingedcrow]

Why did they play this version instead of the more familiar rules? From what I'm reading here in the comments, if they were playing the Texas Holdem we're all familiar with; Yockey was basically dealt a straight flush on the opening deal. And against all odds Arieh somehow started with nothing and ended up with a Royal Flush on the river card?

[@6thwilbury2331]

It's hard to have a NLHE equivalent because of a) the mathematical odds at work here, and b) the way the game plays. Draw games have a point where you "stand pat," that is, you stop discarding and getting new cards because you hit a hand that's strong enough to win without further help. Also, NLHE is such that a player can bet enough to make another guy fold a hand he otherwise wants to draw. But 2-7 triple draw is a limit game, so a player is correct to keep chasing to make his hand. This is why Arieh has to get perfect cards. If he gets a hand that's still pretty strong against a short stack - say an 8 low, he would stand pat, and Yockey's hand would win. If you read up in the comments, you can see other people breaking down the actual math. A lot of people are trying to find a NLHE equivalent by going flop to river, but this goes one step beyond because of the additional betting round. It's more like AdAh vs. KsQs facing a three-bet pre, with both players fairly deep. The guy holding KQ now knows he's likely behind (an ace or a pair is definitely in his opponent's range). The flop comes AsAc9s, turn Ts, river Js. KQ guy already hit a 1-in-9 chance of flopping the flush draw, so that's a long shot into itself. Then a Ts makes his flush, so he keeps going. Jack of spades on the river. The hands are tabled, and KQ guy realizes how thin he had been drawing that whole time. Still not a perfect analogy because KsQs could still find a fold on that turn if the action warranted, but at least a preflop to river scenario illustrates the unlikelihood.

[@christopher7763]

Not only the worst beat I’ve seen, probably one of the best calls by the announcers as well. Still can’t believe this hand

[@tmon3y777]

This is insane. The odds of him losing are astronomical, if he makes a 8 or prob a decent 9 he stops drawing all together. Not only does he have to hit these cards but they have to come pretty much in this exact order to even keep him drawing cards.

[@HitokiriShaggyTTV]

Thank you to the comments. I didnt understand this at all and I play lots of poker. To those that haven't figured it out. This is just the opposite of normal poker. You want to have the worst hand possible. 2,3,4,5,7 is the best possible hand to have and 2,3,4,6,7 is the second best. The loser flopped the 2nd nuts and the winner ended up drawing 3 out and 3 out runner runner to the nuts to win.

[@steveburke1519]

23468 is not second best. 23467 is 2nd best.

[@HitokiriShaggyTTV]

@@steveburke1519 sorry, you are correct that was a typo.

[@michael2305]

That's why I stopped playing poker. Shit like that happens to me everytime I say: "ok last hand, then cash out"

[@DoctorChained]

No it doesn't donk. Please keep playing.

[@michael2305]

@@DoctorChained Mindboggling to me, how an innocent joke like that gets you triggered, but hey: I'm glad I could help.

[@jbmhsv]

Oddly enough, low ball games used to be the favorite to play back in the day. The game has evolved so much over a short period of time.

[@dudedurham]

Yeup wow! Only way he could possibly win was to make the 6 high straight in the first two draws, then drop the 6 on the final draw and catch the 7. Unbelievable. If that didn’t make much sense to you, you should check out 7-2. It’s a fun game and a perfect remedy for when you’re on a cold run in hold ‘em. Let those terrible cards work in your favor :)

[@doc9112]

This hand could make 2-7 explode..

[@fmcdomer]

Docherty91 calm down buddy

[@doc9112]

datDANK I standpat

[@amazingabby25]

I hope, it’s my favorite game

[@matthewkloufetos8909]

i hope so

[@MediaBuster]

I am as lost as everyone else... no clue what's happening here.

[@webster7222]

Watched whole thing and all I can take from it is the with the colourful hat lost 😂😂😂

[@aarbar6615]

For those trying to understand the game the simplest explanation is that you're hand ranking is the polar opposite of the high hand ranking. You would never see it but quads would beat a royal flush

[@samduckford2921]

If you pause it you can see the moment his heart broke 💔

[@brendanboyle493]

you don't have to pause it bro.. they made it the thumbnail to the video. smh, so brutal.

[@CommaGains]

So sick. “I feel your pain” yeah bc this happens all the time 🙄

[@justinthomas27]

The sickest beat in all of tournament poker history. 99.8% equity and lose

[@AndreasFroehliPoker]

Unreal beat...

[@ashliski]

98% of people watching this: wtf is going on?

[@dontbeasucka.61]

I played this game all the time on my computer simulation,...... that other guy was way behind and two draws later he hits the nuts! That was crazy!

[@stando4680]

Played with that Esposito guy last WSOP and he angles. Be careful, if he checks out of turn.

[@lucianosimmons3003]

Ty to all that explained wtf was happening and providing a new way to look at poker. I'm racking my brain to understand how this is different though? If it's the polar opposite in essence then wtf is the point? It seems less like playing basketball in reverse where the object is to NOT score and thus changing the rules and entire game, and more like just having the teams switch ends to score am I correct? I don't understand why if it's the latter which it seems.

[@mattfrictiom90]

Could you imagine the Helmuth melt down?

[@glennhagstedt]

Could you imagine if someone wouldn´t comment "could you imagine if this happend to Hellmuth" on every poker video.

[@mattfrictiom90]

@@glennhagstedt not really I personally am a huge helmuth fan but I really enjoy his meltdowns

[@DaveyJonesLocka]

Here’s the (high) draw poker analogy. Suppose you are playing limit draw poker with three draws. You are initially dealt a king high straight flush. Your opponent has JsTs9h3c2c. He discards 3c2c and draws Qs7c, giving him QsJsTs9h7c. He then discards 7c and draws As, giving him AsQsJsTs9h. He then discards 9h and hits the Ks. As long as you held the 9h, you were dead. You had to draw to a better draw to get you to discard the 9h. That’s what had to happen for Josh to discard the 6. As long as he held the 6 (with the 5), he was dead. He just didn’t know it.

[@s76rivera27]

My head hurts 🤣

[@nonstopclassics4982]

I don’t get it. None of them had squat

[@pagansmc13]

its 2-7 low ball... object is to get the WORST possible hand which, as u saw is unsuited 2,3,4,5,7 unlike in other low hand games, straights, etc count against u. thats why josh mucked his 6- 2,3,4,5,6 is a straight.

[@IAmPez]

Then you do get it, just without realising it. The idea of 2-7 is simply to make the lowest possible ranked hand you can. Aces count as high, and straights play, so the lowest (best) ranked hand you can ever make is 7 high as 23457. Thus the name 2-7.

[@EistLiom]

Took it like a pure gent

[@bonnetdedouche]

I have literally no clue what is happening in this video. wheels n shit just blew my mind 😂

[@itsScottyJ]

The hold em equivalent would be cracking a royal flush because you’ve pulled the 5th jack from your sleeve and the dealer lets it slide.

[@nikitakucherov5028]

Ali said he was drawing dead 😂

[@derekho7720]

Absolutely brutal

[@swastikjainsj]

I know poker but when game is this

[@jameswinters4501]

The hat makes it a little funnier

[@ThePaull3d]

In a situation like this they don't even bleep out the "holy fuck" by the commentator lol

[@damitzdesign]

I think this is what the true poker pros play.... Basically, amateurs like me play no limit hold ‘em and sometimes plo...

[@GabrielConstantinides]

From how the commentator reacted and even made sure to make it known that he had no idea the run out would be like that, this beat must have been atrociously bad (I don't know how this variant works, may google it).

[@haydnmclennan4739]

even the dealer looks grossed out when yockey turns it over

[@spirallove5946]

in holdem would this be like a pair beating a set via runner runner full house? or maybe something like K8 vs A8 on A72 with running Ks; 3 outer followed by 2 outer

[@AdderTude]

I'd say the equivalent to this would be someone getting 9-K straight flush pat on the flop and the other guy going runner runner to perfectly hit a royal.

[@swastikjainsj]

which game ?

[@justin1184]

I play 2 type of pokers. Either hold em or 5 Card Draw, idk what the hell is going on here 💀

[@mambamentality2417]

😂😂

[@Pokerfarhang]

I wish I knew this game so that I could enjoy