a bully! It's actually not a bad play, he just didn't expect someone to wake up with a hand they'd risk all their chips with. It'd be different if he CALLED with Q7, but it was just a standard bluff.

Two weeks after Top 8'ing a 10K, I go to a PCQ playing Common Enemy....

And with my very first resource of the day, put Reign of Terror into my resource row.

this thread turned into 'donking it 101'

- in recent LA i had the nutlo in my game with Niles (knee less??), but he 3/4'd me.

The worst beats I had was playing against my brother's Zero Hour deck. Let's see Aquaman, Sinestro, Maritan Manhunter and Parallax on the field and he had 2 Zero Hours in hand plus a handful of other cards. That is painful, but was fun.

What was not fun is playing vs a Kang/Quicksilver Lost City deck with VU Checkmate. He uses Avalon I use Ahmed and fetch...... Slaughter Swamp....

In my defense my first though was fetching a Phantom Zone which I did not have in the deck, but I had a brainfart during the search and thought oh anti-KO pile card, Swamp will do, just like it did vs Dr.Light. And when I am finished shuffling I go.... oh crap.

I was once the victim of the extremely rare but possible scenario of being in 9th before the bubble round, winning the bubble round and then STILL ending up 9th.

Kamiza, are you "Hardcore Betty" on 411?

[quote=nickolai]I was once the victim of the extremely rare but possible scenario of being in 9th before the bubble round, winning the bubble round and then STILL ending up 9th.

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But you got the incredibly good beat of playing against the worst draft deck ever at the time :)

I felt bad for the two people I squeeked out victories against with that pile.

My most recent "bad beats" was semi-deliberate.

I generally keep 6-8 decks assembled and on hand at any one time, and like to pick them randomly. Yeah, strictly casual, but (*shrugs*)

I've been teaching a new buddy how to play over the last while. He's an X-Men nut, loves him some Woolveroon, so had Berserker Rage in his deck.

After several games of him losing on turn 6 with Wolvie in hand, we got to turn six in a game where I was playing my Manhunter swarm. Turn 6 hit and I didn't pull my Manhunter Conqueror. I had enough Soldiers to actually end the game there by attacking his grunts, but in the interest of letting him geek out over Wolvie going off, I held off on the assault.

So turn 7 hits, out comes Wolvie. I had drawn the Conqueror, but recruited some more soldiers and snipers instead for his benefit.

Don't recall the exact tally at the end, but I had something like 11 army characters on the deck, all of them costing less than 4 to recruit, so Wolvie got to chew through them something fierce. I was in the hole by over 100 pts in the end.

So yeah... it wasn't so much beats as suicidal playing, but it made him feel good, so who cares. Heh.

I missed top 8 at the 10K at PCLA because of Kang 2-drop. (He tapped my Klaw :( )

I ripped a nasty surprise when Terrax chucked a location at Michael Sewell at PCLA for no effect to have Terrax stun back Galactus ftw.

Also, in DGL draft I brickwalled by powering up Grandmaster. That's right I got multiples.

Oh, if we want to get into poker bad beats, I've got stories that will make you cry in your sleep.

3-way pot, one person's already all-in. Flop comes down A2A, two spades. A quick all-in and call, and it looks like this:

Hand 1: A2, for a full house.
Hand 2: QT of spades for the nut flush draw
Hand 3: 66

Turn comes down, King of Spades. Hand 2 has the nut flush, but it doesn't matter 'cause of the full boat. And, as we always do, there were several cries of, "Wait, wait...he's got a Royal Flush draw!" followed by much laughing.

The river? Jack of Spades. Runner runner Royal Flush for the greatest win of all time.

Edit: Ever seen a Vs. game where your opponent doesn't play a character until turn 6?

4-4 match at PC:SF. I'm playing Glock, my opponent is playing Squad. I've got evens, 'cause he won the die roll. We both mulligan, and I hit my 1-2-Doc Light+2-4 drops to his...nothing. He scoops on something like life during his recruit step, showing me 3 Golden Archer, 3 Nuke, and 2 Rocket Central. It sucks to knock someone out to a draw so bad it defies calculation

Bad Beat story #1

PCSF - Silver Age Format

I'm playing Brotherhood Reservists and my opponent is running GLOCK/JLA willpower. Turn 4 he swings his Wonder Woman 4 into my Spoor. He powers up to try to avoid stun. I power up to stun back. He flips Satelite HQ to go +3 DEF. I Boot to the Head his Wonder Woman. He flips New Era, replacing his Satelite HQ for Birthing Chamber and flips ANOTHER Satelite HQ for +3 DEF.

Bad Beat story #2
PCLA 3 - Round 1

My friend Kyle Krueger is running Common Enemy. He's playing the guy with the turn 4 Rigged Elections deck that takes like 55 minutes to play.
He flips Political Pressure from row, drops Doom(4) on turn 4 and plays Time Thief. He looks through his deck to see "a bunch of weird cards" and sees the 1 Rigged Elections, so he removes that from game. His opponent scoops. His opponent says "I have no way to win." Kyle tells us he didn't understand what his opponent was trying to do cuz he didn't see a single surrounded or cosmic radiation in his deck.

What have we learned? 4x Copies of your win condition!!! :knockedou

I do remember the HoG Prerelease when I played against the guy who went 6-drop Firelord, discard Tyrant, play Armageddon for the win. Not alot you can do from there . . . however I tend to try and forget most of my beatings (because there are soooooo many of them). I have had fun delivering some though.

Random PCQ1: I'm playing Injustice Gang/Villians United. My opponent drops a Dr. Psycho on turn two and hasn't flipped a resource yet. I went turn 1 Calculator, Turn 2 Coercion/IQ. My hand is 3x 3...2...1... a Lex and random crap. I put one of my 321 in the row and drop Lex. He flips Enemy for Ahmed and replaces for a Brother I Satalite and uses it. I KO it with 321 during combat to lock the turn on 3, and then procede do it for 3 more turns (since I drew my 4th). He just kept saying "You can't have another one, right?" and replacing for new locations. By the time we went to a turn 4 (actually turn 7) he's taken 16 burn from IQ and his buddy says "Why aren't you just attacking you putz!, his Lex is only a 3/4!"

Random PCQ2: I'm playing my favorite pile of cards, ShadowKnights. My turn two Gotham Knights/Shadowpact buddy Ragman is in play. Turn 3 he flips Enemy and discards so I Conclave. He Enemy's again from hand so I Fizzle. He flips a Brother I Satellite and finally gets Ahmed. Then he realizes that his Talia isn't Checkmate and his remaining cards in hand are not characters. No turn 3 character for you! I drop Creeper and Utility Belt. He Scoops.

Good times.

this nfd is in the same boat as backdoor quads?