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The Bag witnessed perhaps the worst hand I have ever heard of (and copied it down) but I was unable to reach him in time for this post. That special debacle will be posted in the near future. For now we have this:

Dealt to GnightMoon [ Kd, Ah ]
gamblegambel folds.
ikim322 folds.
CyberTheft folds.
YaleYalerson folds.
Surfin_Dude folds.
takeurcake raises (90) to 90
MATPAT calls (90)
GnightMoon raises (348) to 348
giggitty_goo folds.
BluffMag folds.
takeurcake calls (258)
MATPAT folds.
** Dealing Flop ** : [ 7h, Ac, 3d ]
takeurcake bets (600)
GnightMoon raises (1642) to 1642
GnightMoon is all-In.
takeurcake calls (1042)
** Dealing Turn ** : [ 7d ]
** Dealing River ** : [ As ]
Creating Main Pot with $4097 with GnightMoon
** Summary **Main Pot: $4097 Rake: $3 Board: [ 7h Ac 3d 7d As ]
takeurcake balance $10, lost $1990 [ 4d 4h ] [ two pairs, aces and sevens -- Ac,As,7h,7d,4d ]GnightMoon balance $4097, bet $1990, collected $4097, net +$2107 [ Kd Ah ] [ a full house, Aces full of sevens -- Ah,Ac,As,7h,7d ]


As hopeless as that was, it is not as astonishing as the key hand from the final table of the WSOP Circuit Paris/Bally's championship (the last event I played) a few days ago:

Hand #43:
Kido Pham has the button in seat 2, Tran raises to $18,000, Pham reraises to $50,000, Hachem reraises to $150,000, Tran folds, and Pham thinks for a minute before moving all in. Hachem asks for a count of Pham's remaining chips before saying, "It doesn't matter, I call." Hachem shows pocket kings (Kc-Kd), and Pham shows Js-10c.

Hachem has Pham outchipped, and Pham will need to improve to stay alive here.
The flop comes Jc-Jh-2s, and Pham flops trip jacks to take the lead. The air is let out of the crowd, which seems to have been pro-Hachem, and it gets pretty quiet in the tournament arena.
The turn card is the 6c, and Hachem needs to catch a king on the river to bust Pham. The river card is the Ad, and Kido Pham doubles up in a huge pot to take the lead with about $600,000 in chips.

Hachem is still alive, but he is down to about $40,000 in chips.

Hachem busted out in 5th place shortly afterwards, while Pham went on to win the tournament.