Just deciding where to take lady luck to breakfast.
It is $1 million to buy in to the World Series of Poker. You in?
Most of us would need to win the lottery to play a hand like that. Of course, not anyone with a milion bucks can play, you have to prove your worth as a player to get to this table.
25-year-old professional poker player Conor Drinan did that. He has beaten the best of the best, and now that he's at the big table, he got blessed by luck with the best hand possible -- pocket aces.
According to the announcer, pocket aces is a favorite against every other hand in the deck... except pocket aces.
And wouldn't you know it. The luckiest hand in the deck got dealt again, to Cary Katz at the same table, and now the best of all luck just immediately cancelled out by itself.
They both followed the rules and went all in on the "luckiest" hand, so we get to watch two world class poker players let the random cards from the dealer decide who has to walk away from a million dollars.
He lost on a flush. A flush! Pocket aces at the World Poker Tournament, and lost on a flush.
If that happened to me, I would never stop screaming about it. It would be the first thing I woke up to in the morning, and the last thing my neighbors heard coming from my walls at night. In my old age, all the nursing home attendants would say, "Yes, yes, Ms. Fox, we've heard how you lost a million dollars on pocket aces. It was statistically improbable. Please finish your sandwich so we can remove your tray for nap time."
But Drinan is a professional, I bet he'll still be able to eat his sandwich.
(by Myka Fox)