Flopped Quad Fours... and the Crazy Ending

 

📍 Hole Cards

• Liu: 4♥ 4♣ → Pocket Fours 

• Secilmis: 6♠ 6♦ → Pocket Sixes 

📍 Board (Community Cards)

• Flop: 6♥ 4♦ 4♠

• Turn: 6♣

• River: [not shown, but irrelevant – the hand is already decided by the turn]

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🔍 Hand Breakdown

• Flop (6♥ 4♦ 4♠):

  • Liu flops four of a kind (quads) with 4♥ 4♣ + two 4s on the board.

  • Secilmis flops a full house, sixes full of fours.

  At this point, Liu is way ahead, having hit one of the rarest flops possible — flopped quads.

• Turn (6♣):

  • The board now shows 6♥ 4♦ 4♠ 6♣.

  • This changes everything. Now Secilmis also has quads — quad sixes, which beats quad fours.

  Secilmis now takes the lead with the higher four-of-a-kind. Liu, likely unaware of how crushed he is, probably feels invincible after flopping quads.

• River:

  • Even though it’s not shown, the hand is already locked up by the turn. Nothing can change the outcome.

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🧠 Final Hands

• Liu: Quad Fours (4♥ 4♣ + 4♦ 4♠ on board)

• Secilmis: Quad Sixes (6♠ 6♦ + 6♥ 6♣ on board)

🏆 Winner: Secilmis

• Secilmis wins with a higher quads (sixes over fours) — one of the rarest possible cooler hands in poker.

• This is so rare that it's often called "set over set over quads" — but in this case it’s quads over quads, an astronomical long shot.

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🎯 Analysis Summary

This is what poker players call a "cooler" – a brutal hand where no one is realistically folding. Liu flops the dream with quads, only for Secilmis to run him down on the turn with higher quads. You could play millions of hands and never see something like this.

One of the rarest and sickest setups in WSOP history.

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💥 The Flop: 6♥ 4♦ 4♠

Liu is holding 4♥ 4♣ — he flops quads on a board of 6♥ 4♦ 4♠.

This is an ultra-rare and dream situation. Odds of flopping quads with a pocket pair are approximately 0.2% (1 in 500).

At this point:

• Liu believes he has the absolute nuts (the best possible hand).

• Even if someone has 6-6, he still has quads — and quad 4s beat a full house like sixes full of fours.

• He’s completely unbeatable — for now.

Meanwhile:

• Secilmis has 6♠ 6♦ and flops a full house — sixes full of fours.

• From his perspective, he’s also feeling good. He likely believes he has the best hand, never expecting Liu to have flopped quads.

So on this flop:

• Liu is crushing with quads.

• Secilmis is coolered, and about to lose a massive pot — unless lightning strikes.

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⚡️ The Turn: 6♣

And then it does.

This is the brutal twist:

• The second 6 hits the board.

• Now the board is: 6♥ 4♦ 4♠ 6♣

• Secilmis now has quad sixes — an upgrade from a full house.

This single turn card swings the entire hand around:

• Liu goes from stone-cold lock to dead losing, and there’s nothing he can do about it.

• He can’t fold. Who in their right mind folds flopped quads in a tournament — especially in the WSOP Main Event?

• This isn’t just a cooler — it’s a mathematical car crash.

The odds of this setup happening — both players being dealt pocket pairs that turn into competing quads — are staggering, well into the millions-to-one territory.

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💔 The Brutality in Context

Let’s break the emotional and strategic trauma down:

1. Liu hits one of the best flops possible.

2. He slow-plays (probably) or traps, knowing full well he can’t be beaten — or so he thinks.

3. The turn betrays him. It’s the one card that flips his perfect dream into a nightmare.

4. He’s drawing dead with quads — an absolute rarity.

And worst of all?

• There’s no way to avoid it.

• There’s no bad play here. Just bad luck of cosmic proportions.

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🔥 Final Thought

This hand is the poker equivalent of a lightning strike — where two players both think they’re holding the nuts, but only one walks away... and the other walks out.

Liu flopped perfection, but the turn card wasn’t just sick — it was heartbreaking poetry in four suits.