Bad Beat Thread
Because we have to have a place to discuss our bad beats, don't we?
To kick it off, I will share my own bad beat from a couple of weeks ago. I was at the final table of my local low stakes live tournament. The blinds were up to 40k/80k (we started with 15,000 chips, for reference). I was a medium stack on the table and woke up with pocket Queens. Of course, I went all in. Everyone folded around to the big stack, who would be about even with me if he lost. He looked at his hand and thought about what to do for a couple of minutes. Finally, he said "I know you're ahead, but I'm going to call you". He showed pocket sixes and said "I'm sorry, but I'm the devil. I'm going to get my six." Sure enough, in the window, the 6 came out giving him 6-6-6 and putting me out of the tournament in sixth place.
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We tend to remember our bad beats vividly because they seem so cruel. but are they really? Or is it just plain old random math? I have taken to viewing the bad beats with gratitude. I am grateful to players who willingly offer their chips to me when they are at such a disadvantage. Think of it. In your example above, you were a statistical 81% favorite to win! What fantastic odds this guy gave to you! I will take these kind of odds every single time. And if the math doesn't work out this time, well, there's always next time.
Play strong.
If you are an 80% favorite in any given situation, you can expect to lose once for every four times you win. This is nothing to get upset about or to waste time making a big deal of it.
Sometimes their luck holds for them, though. At my local tournament last winter the retired fella to my right with a short-ish stack with about 30 players left went all-in. I had the big stack and called him with KK. He turned 32o. Of course, he drew out on me to a straight on the river. A few hours later and after I had gotten moved he joined my table, when it became the final table. He brought in by far the biggest stack, easily over half the chips on the table. I warned everyone in good humor, "Watch out for this guy! When he gets 32o it's lights out." Practically everyone on the final table had been at the table to see it when he bad-beat me, so they knew what I was talking about. I went out in fourth place. He won the tournament.
Very true. This one amused me more than anything. The other player was a regular who I have played with many times. I like his chutzpah in calling the six.
that is nothing I had 14 times AA in at 16 hours of straight play and loose 10 times and 3 times not one call; and twice I had AA vs AA and loose one time and tie one, That happens 3 days ago.
Them again I had 3 royal flush in 3 months , flop 2 and river one; so far this year. Is all skills
Yeah those runs are rough. I had AA cracked just yesterday by a guy who called my 4x raise with a j5 off and flopped two fives. That's the kind of thing that never occurs to you when you try to put someone on a hand range. Short tournament for me.
Without bad beats poker would be like chess: you would not have a chance against the computer.
Sure, and every once in a while you get to be on the good end as well. I was in a tournament this weekend where my stack had gotten seriously low. So I fake checked my cards and shoved blind UTG with what later turned out to be 2-5 off. I was snap called by KK. Well, two fives hit the board and suddenly I was viable again. You know that the KK guy is complaining to anyone who will listen about the donkey who cracked his Kings with 2-5 off!
Television and Internet had infected the game with Sooooooooooo many gamblers and bad play. It is beyond correction, just sit there and take it. "You can never TAKE a bad beat if you are always behind" this is the motto of people who think they did a great thing by sucking out.
I admit that I have played too many games at a local cardroom with $50 buy in tournaments. Well, the $50 tournament is heavily populated by college students who think that raw aggression is the only way to go and senior citizens who are waiting for suited aces. This is not a good combination, and leads to a variety of contentious "bad beat" situations. I have found that even moving up to the $100 game offers a more solid range of players.
Bottom line is, its a RANDOM game....You can NEVER beat a professional chess player...EVER..but you can beat a professional card player all the time!