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28-09-2007, 8:16 AM
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Bad Beat Stories
Many years ago, some caveman or another came up with the brilliant idea that "hey, fish don't fight as well as dinosaurs, let's eat them instead". Thus fishing was born. However, fishing is about as exciting as an extreme aging competition in your local home, so to pass the time, the aforementioned cavemen invented fish stories. Fast forward a couple of decades. Some cowboy or another comes up with the idea of robbing fish instead of trains, and invents poker. However, to the professional player (which everybody is, really. I dare you to find someone who'll define himself as an "average" or "poor" player) poker is about as thrilling as quadriplegic racing, bad beat stories were invented. Bad beat stories serve two purposes. A really good bad beat story serves to show both what a great player you are, and what a complete retard everybody else is. Moreover, because all poker players are hardcore gamblers who'd shoot you in the back for a pretty penny, the community as a whole is fairly distant, and the stories help draw people together, because nobody ever tires of hearing about aces getting cracked.  Whats your story??? |
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28-09-2007, 8:31 PM
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never heard this before very interesting.i nwould tell you my story but bad beat storys have there on place inn this forum lol
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29-09-2007, 1:01 AM
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I have often times compared poker players to fishermen. Good to see someone else make that comparison
My take on the proliferation of bad beat stories is that it is detrimental to the development of poor and marginal players because it is a form of negative reinforcement that creates an atmosphere of acceptance of losing. Bad beat stories give players an easy excuse to continue throwing $ away. I have no research to back this up but I have a theory that the players who are the biggest bad beat story tellers are also the same players who are on the winning end of the majority of someone else's bad beat stories. Meanwhile the rich get richer while the little fish eat each other. Perhaps I'll write a blog on the subject one day. But then, with my aversion to writing I won't count on it. |
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29-09-2007, 1:01 AM
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well jus 1 that i remember recently...i had AQ and raised pretty decent amount, maybe 30% chips (i dont remember chip counts) and 1 guys calls but is trailing me in chips. Flop A Q 5 so i bet 50% of the rest of my stack he calls. turn 9 no flush draw. i push him all in and he calls with 5,6 off, river of course is a 5 as well and i was decimated! haha i was like wtf who calls that much with pair 5s 6 kicker with AQ on the board and som1 betting strong...idk its poker people catch cards but i think it really sucks when u push them so hard and they keep going hoping for some lucky @$$ shot in the dark like that...
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29-09-2007, 2:20 AM
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well just now in a 2.20 heads up donk and go i had 96o flop was 578 the guy raises a ridiculous amount as he has been doing the entire game ( the pot was 40 and he bets like 360) so i push he calls and shows qj turn 10.....river, u guessed it.
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