Terrible Day for AA in Big One for One Drop with Two Bad Beat Eliminations

First there was the unbelievable elimination of $25k satellite qualifier @Connor Drinan holding AA vs @Cary Katz with... AA. As bad beats go, this one comes straight out of a poker player's worst nightmare:

Katz, UTG, A♥ A♠  raised to 225,000

Drinan, BB, A♦ A♣ three-bet to 580,000

Katz, four-bet to 2 million

Drinan, all-in, 5.79 million

Katz, call

Flop: 2♦ K♥ 5♥ 

Turn: 4♥ 

River:2♥ 

Connor Drinan finished 11th in the 2013 WSOP One Drop High Rollers and has had four minor cashes so far in #WSOP2014 

After watching this #PokerHand, Sam Trickett tweeted: "Just witnessed one of the worst bad beats in the history of the game ...AA vs AA in the @onedrop". Little did he know then that the poker gods had one in store for him, too...

He finished Day 1 in high spirits as the chip leader but on Day 2 the #OneDrop tweets of the Everest ambassador were marked by increasing frustration: "horrible start", "running horribly today", "getting extremely frustrated", and the final one:

"Literally the most painful day of poker in my life !!!"

Here is the PokerNews account of the hand:

Hand #31: Daniel Negreanu raised to 360,000 from early position. Sam Trickett reraised to 800,000 out of the small blind, and action moved back to Negreanu. He called, and the flop came down 9♠ 6♣ 5♦. Trickett was first and checked. Negreanu checked behind.

The turn was the 10♥, and Trickett bet 1.2 million. Negreanu called, and the pot swelled to 4.32 million in chips before the dealer completed the board with the 9♣. Trickett moved all in, and Negreanu immediately asked for a count from the dealer. He was informed the shove was for 3.865 million. According to the stat tracker screen, Negreanu had 3.915 million left in his stack at the time of Trickett's shove, so calling would mean putting nearly all of his chips at risk.

After about a minute, Negreanu called, and Trickett tabled the A♦ A♣ for two pair, aces and nines. Negreanu had him beat, though, as he showed the J♦ 9♦ for trip nines to win the pot and sent Trickett out the door in 15th place.

Sam Trickett finished runner-up in the inaugural Big One for One Drop in 2012, winning $10,112,001 and cementing his position as UK's No. 1 player by live poker earnings.