Lend me your ear for a moment and I'll walk you through a painful bad beat I experienced just the other day. Even though it wasn't Dylan, I'd swear this guy was trained by Dylan.
It's still early in a deepstack holdem poker tourney. We're nine handed, and everyone is sitting at about 120 BBs. The play has been extremely conservative. A raise of 3 big blinds is enough to take down more than half the pots before the flop, and nobody has 3 bet.
Under the gun I pick up aces and make a standard raise. It folds around to my opponent. He min raises, so I 3 bet 30 BBs. He calls instantly. The flop is Q, 9, 3, rainbow. I lead out with a half pot size bet. He instantly calls, 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 what seemed to be an eternity. Eventually he says, "I have to call you." and calls. You'll never guess what he turns over? Two fours. I was stunned. The flush draw wouldn't have surprised me, but even if I had 10 guesses I wouldn't have put him on fours. Well, this is a bad beat story, so you probably already guessed what's coming next... Of course, the river was a four, sending me to the rail
