Being the bubble at a poker tournament is never a rewarding experience, specially if you fall just one spot away from getting a payout for the most expensive online poker torunament, the WCOOP-47: $51,000 Super High Roller organized by PokerStars, with a bad beat, worthy of nightmares.

The unlucky protagonist was David “dpeters17” Peters   who lost against Nikita “fish2013”Bodyakovskiy  in the following fashion.

Vlinds were set at 2,500/5,000 ante 625 with seven playeres sitting at the table, and only six of them would make a stop at the payout.

It was then that came the hand, where more than 20,000 spectaators were surprised to see the Belarussian go all in for 25 BB from the CO. David after a few seconds, called from the button, the blinds were taken out and the result is the image that we see here.

After this play, and before the astonished look of all the spectators, the bubble burst and all six reaming players were left ITM. Finally, history would tell us that the legend for Nosebleed Cash Games Ben Tollerene  , playing under the nickname, “Ben84” at the red spade room; would be the one to keep the title after a deal with Spaniard  Ángel “Cejakas14” Latorre   and Nikita “fish2013” Bodyakovskiy .

You can see the reaction by Joe Stapleton and  Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree   – who were broadcasting live from the final table- from minute 2:06:00 in the video for this LINK.

What do you think of the bad beat that made the bubble burst for the most expensive tournament in online poker? How did Nikita play? Could David fold? How would you have reacted?

Let the debate begin!

Picture taken from:assopoker.com