Poker Player Shows Card to Opponent and Loses Big

In a surprising turn of events, Bitcoin Yoda, a participant in a cash game at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, showed one of his cards to his opponent, Eric Hicks, and lost a pot of 13,000 big blinds.

The hand was played with a straddle, and by the river, there were already 3,000 blinds in the pot. On the board Ad 5d 2c Kd 4s, Bitcoin Yoda bet 2/3 of the pot – $10,000. Eric Hicks raised to $25,000 after seeing Bitcoin Yoda's 3s, and Yoda called with 4c 3s, losing to Hicks' flush 7d 6d.

In another poker incident, a player in Casino Del Sol, Tucson, Arizona, lost a bad beat jackpot despite having a set of nines. The winner of the hand received $4,500, the player with tens received $9,000, and the player with nines received only $665. The victim of the double bad beat was 37-year-old R. J. Bergman, a program director for the Young Christian Association.