@PokerNews is reporting a bad beat story that really is a BAAAAHHHHHHD Beat. It happened in the $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship (6/18/11 at around 9PM EST). Vikie Seley took a bad beat from an empty seat of an unknown player!
“Apparently, an unknown player failed to retake his seat after the recent twenty-minute break and his short stack began to dwindle. Eventually, this player’s stack was forced all-in by the big blind and Vickie Seley seized the opportunity to earn some free chips by reraising to isolate the pot. The action folded around and Seley expected to take the pot without a showdown.”
“Unfortunately for her, the dealer ruled that the hand must be played to completion irregardless of the fact that the big blind player was absent from the table. Seley tabled her {4-}{4-} and watched as the board rolled out with two pairs of over cards to counterfeit her small pair.”
The floor was called and the dealer’s ruling was reversed… The floor declared Seley the winner of that hand… but Seley played another hand before the floor arrived…
The floor declared ….the empty seat’s stack was dead and Seley was out of the competition. It was an unfortunate “timing” of events for Seley.
The floor ruled that she did in fact win the first hand with the empty seat, so the chips should have gone to her – and – they ruled that she was out of the competition because she went All In on the following hand and lost. The sad timing is that she likely would not have gone All In had she won the extra chips…
Read more at Pokernews.com about Vickie Seley’s Bad Beat in the Seniors $1K No Limit Hold’em Championship.