Erik Seidel Suffers WORST BAD BEAT in 40 Years!

Poker Hall of Fame member Erik Seidel was on his way to another World Series of Poker final table when DISASTER struck!
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[@paulmaier6305]

what a CLASSY guy Eric S is.

[@JimmySands-pd7xt]

Yeah proper gentleman, never heard a bad word said about him

[@mrquirky3626]

Yes, but there is a part of me that pictures him going up in the elevator alone later, screaming his head off as the rest of the casino wonders what that strange noise is.

[@paulmaier6305]

@@mrquirky3626 nope. he lives close in Hednderson.

[@HalConick]

Truly. He's such a wonderful character, for lack of a better word, in Maria Konnikova's book The Biggest Bluff. To see him be so even-keeled after an insane beat is no surprise after reading that book. As he said in the book, “Bad beats are a really bad mental habit. You don’t want to ever dwell on them. It doesn’t help you become a better player. It’s like dumping your rubbish on someone else’s lawn. It just stinks.”

[@bucsredsoxredwings]

If this was my worst beat in 40 years, I´d also be that chill.

[@BaldManInTexas]

This is an instant classic hand. This will be coming up hundreds of times in Bad Beat compilations.

[@jrviade85]

errrrrrrrrrrr No

[@syrup_710]

​@@jrviade85 huh??

[@padenbang7375]

Gotta respect Seidel, man. He's taken some big loses, in front of millions, over the years and he never cracks up or loses his head. Honorable dude 🤘🏻

[@Dylan-vm4gl]

you just knew he wasn't going to complain.

[@Mrunlimted47]

That’s the game we signed up for 😂😂😂

[@ToyDenNerds]

Can you imagine the rant if this happened to Hellmuth and not Seidel. He would still be dropping F-bombs 12 hours later LOL

[@SpruceMoose304]

Nacho Barbero enters the chat

[@tjfaus3202]

I can definitely see it happen to Phil. I definitely believe that

[@TheFlaptrapper]

I'd love to see that. I'd watch it every day

[@doughboysnerdly2745]

if you think that’s why phil reacts the way he does, you don’t understand phil. he’s way too smart to think the way you do

[@hencole]

​@@doughboysnerdly2745err no he's just man baby who can't control his emotions.

[@camctrail]

Runner runner straight flush is diabolical

[@garrickmusic]

Yep, been there myself. Obviously not the same stakes, but it was big enough to hurt my heart at the time.

[@erroreliminator2.076]

I like how the commentator predicted a one outer would go viral 😂

[@davidmcnaboe]

? of course it would. bizarre comment :)

[@justinphillips8317]

Scripted

[@shawshank3149]

They know about the hand as they are commentating on a stream with 30+ min delay

[@6thwilbury2331]

@@shawshank3149 Yeah, but they are also delayed. They are reacting to a hand that played 30 minutes before but they don't know what it happened.

[@shawshank3149]

@@6thwilbury2331 word gets out mate.. especially a cooler such as this

[@Thanetian577]

Eric remains as classy as ever

[@shwnusmc119]

Even classier than when he was stealing millions at full tilt. And definitely just as classy as what he did to Kruse. Dude is scumbag, tf you talking class 😂😂

[@joshuapatrick682]

Seidel taking it like a champ.

[@f.eugenedunnamiii9452]

I was hoping you'd post this clip after I heard about it on the stream yesterday.

[@benedits420]

The pre pay gave him at least 10% equity

[@wesleyb1458]

Facts

[@marvincotton1919]

😂

[@videditorEB1]

Totally!! Between that and the announcers predicting a “big pay day” for Siedel and it was just about 50/50. 😃

[@tedfrommarketing3135]

Eric Seidel handled this better than I did and I'm just a rando on the internet. I love how he just shrugs at the end like "yep, these things happen."

[@anthonykoh7394]

thats the dealer from Hustler live

[@suchabadbeat2617]

Former dealer yes

[@imraanbulbulia80]

Ya Sammy.

[@PandaPower511]

Thought he was moving back home to Paris… didn’t know he meant he was moving to Paris the casino…. LOL

[@OCBOHJE]

did he do sth illegal?

[@goldorak8266]

@@OCBOHJE nah he was just a dealer from hustler livestreams

[@BeeKay1999]

The hand became an instant classic in wsop'24🔥.... can't get better/ worse than a one outer.... unless it's final table/ hand of tourney

[@6thwilbury2331]

Haha go look up Bryce Yockey vs. Josh Arieh from the $50K PPC. It actually IS worse than a one outer because it requires back-to-back one outers in the correct order.

[@Detective313]

The odds of winning/losing this hand is 2%. Running 1 outers the odds 0.04%. Much worse...

[@BeeKay1999]

​@Detective313 actually, A one-outer is 1/44 probability, or 43 to 1 odds, 2.27%.....

[@gvnscn]

The title kills all the joy of the video

[@chrisi621]

Bad beat? Of course. But it's not the worst bad beat in 40 years. That was definitely that wsop main event hand where the one guy rivered quad aces and the other guy rivered a royal flush. Knocked out of the main event with quad aces... Insane

[@pugsnhogz]

if you don't use hyperbole they kick you off KZbin

[@deadmansgulf911]

The worst is the 2-7 triple draw hand vs the guy that made Pat 2 vs Josh Arieh

[@pugsnhogz]

@@mahr1972 I disagree

[@TheRealBruceLouis]

no thats wat i call a cooler, not a bad beat this is an actual bad beat

[@enibub]

That hand was insane! But actually Phillips was already ahead on the turn and Mabuchi had many outs to get a boat and win. But in the end the ace was the best possible card for everyone except Mabuchi... 😉

[@anneLihatyd]

Sharing the joy. 🎉nice one

[@justinmanser7525]

Everyday on Coral poker!

[@mikebelnap3079]

And that my friends is how you handle a bad beat in poker……not how matusow,negraneau,hellmuth and the rest blow up by throwing stuff or tipping chairs over

[@El.Espartano]

It is difficult not to get angry when that happens. Personally I get real mad when a 2/3 outer makes me lose. I also think that there are luckier people that others even if they say “in the long run blablabla”

[@pugsnhogz]

Negreanu isn't really known for being a sore loser tho is he? Half the time he's laughing at himself and shaking his head as he walks away

[@pugsnhogz]

@@El.Espartano yes some people are luckier than others, because "the long run" is insanely long

[@Dustin_Platt]

The law of averages. It's bound to happen, especially in a long career. At least some people can handle it like a gentleman.

[@PVL14]

I made the same exact straight flush on Zynga last week

[@looneyhorizon]

took it like a true champion

[@carrissl.rieser119]

That absolutely insane!!

[@PokerWithDr.Parlay]

Great Content! 👍👍

[@Bigmoney703]

Wonder if Seidel can make the laydown with the 3rd nuts when he gets 3-bet all-in on the turn? We don't see the pre-flop action but assuming limped pot, would it mean that A-spades suited type hands are not in range from the SB (given those are likely raises)?

[@willjay6943]

They are playing with like 20 bigs , no way can lay down a queen high flush head up

[@EuthanizePitbulls]

What a stupid question/comment. Seidel undebatably played his hand terribly and was completely reliant on his opponent having a big hand also to get paid.

[@nicor6415]

I am pretty sure he experiences this at least 50+ times already... Its only sick for newbies out there with less than 10k tournaments experience

[@viking5960]

That worst than losing the title to Chan 😂

[@pugsnhogz]

lol

[@cctcctctcct]

If this happens in HCL, people will call for investigation.

[@llcoolmartine]

Normal pokerstars hand. Happened to me twice last week. Won both. Lost both spins later though :)

[@pepkep]

Sick river!!!

[@sukhumkiwanont8371]

Class act ❤

[@bouji_]

You know it's bad when the winner doesn't even realize that they won the pot.

[@michaelmarron8441]

Imagine that happening to Mike Matasow !🤯 He'd have a nervous breakdown

[@jlaux7]

I wish it was Phil Hellmuth taking that beat.

[@greenwave819]

I think the worst beats are when a player needs exactly 2 cards after getting it in on the flop and they hit the turn and river

[@tqsuited]

Yep.. In this case running 8 6 or 8 J spades, but only one river out if it's the J or 6 on turn. Still pretty sick but not quite the 2 exact running cards for the ultimate bad beat.

[@antzooma]

touch some grass pedant

[@Nick_315_Palumbo]

Sami went from dealing these beats to giving em!

[@marksimpson2321]

I was 3 way in a hand last month in a tournament and 2 of us needed 1 out and it came. Neither of us got in the money 😅

[@doug564]

Just brutal! 😮

[@dahemphill]

Poker gods handing out Miracles 2024

[@TreyMK12]

2:16 did he not even know he had the 8 of spades as an out??

[@Zeldarulah]

He mentioned it earlier so he certainly did

[@cyberhype5495]

2:12

[@Maximus_Naughtius]

I don't think that I would've taken the beat so well....I have a lot to learn from Eric Seidel.

[@scottmillard1536]

Eric has always been the silent assassin!!!

[@HouseHoldAdventures]

Insane

[@joehenry9546]

I’ve lost to one outers more times than I’d liked to remember. Problem with playing poker for too long. Sucks every time

[@justinv608]

Eric should take a page from Barry Greenstein and write a book called Eight on the River.

[@DannyMerchant-t2k]

Win with class, lose with dignity. Seidel👍

[@anandguruji83]

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[@anandguruji83]

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[@gama1123]

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[@WarriorKidd06]

Unbelievable

[@davidflippo1432]

That’s almost as disgusting as traveling 900 miles to play online in Michigan and then having the wsop refuse to let me deposit money then they disable my account when I complain about it

[@adamtennant4936]

Brutal.

[@breakthroughodds782]

Pedro dealing the ❄️🥶

[@bgrady24]

Horrible situation, but a pro like Eric I guarantee has lost on 1 out-ers dozens of times. He’s seen it all, it may be a surprise but not shocking to him.

[@danielkristensen3386]

Awesome clip/hand, but please change the thumbnail to not spoil the entire thing, before anyone even watches. Why not let people see for themselves?

[@xxChacaronXX]

I never knew you could raise so big on the turn.. he raises to 450k with a stack of like 900k… why not just jam? When he does this he’s saying he’s never folding which means there’s very few bluffs in his range?

[@Radimunto]

Happens every two minutes on Jokerstars.

[@marksimpson2321]

Obviously because 1000s of hands are dealth every few seconds.

[@Radimunto]

@@marksimpson2321 It happens every 2 minutes at one table.

[@koonjar]

This was just sick 😢

[@TheKingofBooks]

Amazing

[@dft110]

eric what a legend

[@davidmcminn162]

it was still a risk to call, he could also have lost to an Ace or King spades. He didn't know what his opponent had (obviously).

[@gynandroidhead]

Ouch

[@borichaa3128]

I guess in Seidel's mind, it was impossible for the other dude to have AX or KX spades? Insta call off 3bet jam with 3rd nuts lol??

[@richardsimmonsjuggernautof9781]

I lost hands in cash games in this exact way TWICE in a span of one year, both allin on the turn, both one outer redraw to the straight flush on the river, but yet this is the worst bad beat in 40 years…

[@JohnSmith-nx7zj]

A one outer on the river sucks but it hardly makes it the worst bad beat in 40 years.

[@arthurcheater3359]

bro, your title

[@FunclipMonkey]

if this happend to hellmuth they would to put a half hour long bleeper 🙈

[@markrabel6281]

Brutal 1 outer

[@zainsyed9811]

40 years? This happens every 5 mins on GGPoker 😂

[@snake0911]

I took a worse beat at my 1/2 Tuesday night home game.

[@loomibiq]

Runner runner straight flush makes it even more disgusting.

[@rickpapineau5939]

This is a worse bad beat than FOUR ACES losing to a runner runner Royal Flush? Mabuchi flopped trips. Phillips hit the gut shot straight on the turn. Ace of diamonds on the river, giving Mabuchi quads and Phillips the Royal. Are you suggesting it's the worst because of the timing? Because, it's not the worst hand loss, to be sure.

[@tomgold5006]

~river 👀

[@VegasPokerNomad]

1 outers happen daily.

[@johnathanpatrick6118]

Bechahed doing the pre-shoveling of chips over to Seidel only for the 8 of spades to put up the stop sign...!! 🛑🛑

[@offwiththeirheads4635]

Erik is a class act, unlike the commentators.

[@nicstevens6499]

And this is why the best poker playes in the world can and have and do go broke... There is skill but luck / bad luck is a major part of this game

[@rkon-cw5ou]

It’s GG so no surprise he hits 1 outer on the river

[@steerpike50]

Yeah its a game of skill DOH

[@Shoot1ngStar]

Guy gets one outter once in 40 years 🤣

[@jesusthroughmary]

There is only so bad a beat can get, a one outer comes 2% of the time

[@johnthomas8731]

It’s not disgusting… these are seasoned players, the 8 of spades was an always part of their decision to act.

[@hardhouseinc]

This personally pains me 🤣

[@opinion3742]

Worst bad beat in 40 years? No wonder I'm not making millions out of poker.

[@RR-xu5xk]

All that is missing is one of the idiots at the table telling you "that's poker" once you lost.

[@wastedbread8036]

happens to me every week

[@Shinopwn]

Every day 😅

[@mcfly7]

The dude quits his job and then this happens. Follow your dreams...

[@chiwawa130]

This would be no different if he had just a king or ace of spades.

[@bodycount00]

i you think you got screwed on pokerstars..

[@utarian7]

I get more tilted with 25% rivers on 5NL

[@billysikes1374]

Shows how bad 90 percent of poker players are, One of the best players EVER raised him and he couldn't get away from a 9 high flush

[@thegoldstandard55]

Exactly didn't give any respect to a goat player and somehow gets the 2% runner runner and wins.

[@spleeeen4it]

normal on pokerstar s

[@ianshirreffs5604]

GG.

[@juliusreiner5733]

Erik Seidel has never hit an important river card

[@kingmo565]

I put that very same bad beat on a buddy 20 years back... it was just as disgusting back then.

[@Fixundfertig1]

I wouldn't say that's disgusting, I mean, that's the way it is 😅

[@petes1969]

That’s how you handle a bad beat kiddies. Learn from the master.

[@D_M121]

That is sickening to watch. Geez

[@jackofallgames3097]

Poor Eric man! More famous for his losses than wins

[@ts4gv]

poker is brutal man would be cool to integrate digital tech into live poker, and when players are all in with cards to come just divy the pot up by their equities. can't really do that in tournaments though because people won't get eliminated as often. also it just runs against the gambling spirit that brings fish to the game. But as a strategy game, any reduction in poker variance is a welcome one IMO.

[@Johnouai]

worst bad beat in 40 years ? so in 40 years he never got hit by a one outer ? ...sure

[@Gos1234567]

yea i just got done by a two outer just half an hour ago,didnt bat an eyelid as its a regular thing,

[@williamlockwood9729]

Also, getting hit by a 1 outer heads up is less likely so a worse beat than a 1 outer with more than 2 players.

[@JeffZuccMusk]

16 left and 660k up top...it's pretty bad. IT'S ALSO ABOUT THE PHASE OF THE TOURNEY.

[@rwachwater4408]

Not even the worst bad beat I’ve suffered in the last 40 minutes

[@marcopolodeoliveira8347]

😂😂😂😂

[@GetItInGood]

Liar.

[@JasonVaysberg]

you limped your aces and took a flop 8 ways?

[@iCover480]

I think I was more upset than Erik was. That hurts!