I believe your odds pre flop are about 92% to win the hand pre flop. I am asuming that you both went all in pre flop. If he was 1 card to the straight after the flop like say Q,J,8 flopped then you were about 83% to win after that flop. If he only hit one of his straight cards on the flop like Q,8,2 then you were about 98%. After the turn when he needed 1 card to hit his straight you were about 91%. Here is the thing, yep thats a bad beat. You got railroaded and it sucks. A lot of on line poker players will call an all in or even go all in on A,K they dont know what you have, most of these hack players dont even care. They just see Moneymaker go all in on A-K and they do the same. If you were head to head your getting called almost 95% of the time by A-K maybe 99%. If you were playing big money poker someone might lay A-K down but Maybe not. If you were in a small buy in tourney or a small cash game these type of games have many suckout players and theres no way they would even think about laying A-K down. 92%!!!!!! You had him smoked. Sorry DOOD. It happens to us all A,A is one we all lose on from time to time, but I wont lay it down pre flop EVER not even the first hand of a tourney Its odds are just too good. Keep playing good You'll get em!!!:wavey: