I know that nobody likes a bad beat story, but I need to share this. Even though it wasn't Dylan, I'd swear--considering the play--he guy went to Dylan's poker school (i.e. Donkey U).
It's still early in a deepstack poker tourney. We're paying ten handed, and everyone is sitting at about 120 BBs. The play has been pretty tight. The standard raise of 3 BBs is taking down most of the pots before the flop, and we have yet to see a 3 bet.
Under the gun I pick up aces and raise to 3 big blinds. It folds around to the donkey. He raises it to 6 BBs, so I 3 bet 30 BBs. He snap calls. The flop comes Q, 9, 3, rainbow. I make about a half pot size bet. He calls instantly, again. The turn is a king of spades, putting two spades on board--I have the ace of diamonds and the ace of hearts. I go all in, with just slightly more chips than me, and after going into the tank for about 10 minutes. Eventually he says, "I don't see how I can fold." and calls. I bet you can't guess what he turns over? Two fours. I was stunned. The flush draw wouldn't have surprised me, but even if he had given me 10 guesses I couldn't have put him on fours. Well, this is a bad beat story, so you know what the river was... Of course, the river was a four, crushing my hopes of winning the tourney.
