How to handle bad beats

Was playing in a live 1-2 cash game was short handed with 6 players. Picked up KK UTG (i had a 4 straddle) Player in dealer position (seem to smell of alcohol) raised to 20 ....BB calls(really good tight player) calls 20.....comes to me I make it 55( a pot size raise) the drunk thinks about it and calls, BB folds. The flop is 762 (2 are spades) Im first to act... I go all in with 150 ....he has 200 left in the stack and thinks for a few minutes......I know I have him beat when is take a while to think .........then makes a hesitant call and shows A 6 suited but not spades.......I say I have KK and he acts surprised.....WTF did you think I had?
the turn comes up A and I dead...bad beat.
Now I have a lot of bad beats in my life and I ve just take a break from playing.....which calms me down.....if I continue playing I get very tilty......
For those who have to play tournaments or want to continue gambling , what do you do after this happens? I cant play NL holdem after a bad beat cause I just play on tilt .....what do you do?

Walk away for a bit, gather your thoughts, realize these players are the lifeblood of poker, calm down , relax, smile to yourself ,
then, come back refreshed, and ready to kill.

Just don't give a ****

Take a smoke break. But bad beats don't really affect me.

Yeah I live in Holland so I smoke a joint to relax :P, I never tilt

You get used to them. Think about good decisions, money is irrelevant.

Sometime bitch to myself for a few mins., thinking/believing some great injustice has just come my way. I might even stay pissed for 5mins.(< worst case scenario) but I don't let it impact how I play going forward... 'ever'. That would just seem pointless (about as pointless as my thinking I've been done some great injustice by the Poker Gods).

I can (at times) feel my gut tightening up, & start holding my breath a bit. I make a concious effort to breathe in... breathe out.
And then I might click on a quote by Jared Tendler that I keep saved on my desktop:
"I recognize that I'm upset that I just took a horrible beat but poker is a game governed in large part by random chance, and getting my money in good in situations like that is how I make my money. If the bad players didn't suck out sometimes they would stop playing the game, so it is silly for me to be angry about this, and even sillier for me to start playing worse because of it."
'Jared Tendler'

What happens if you knows all the rule following bad beats, but you still tend to tilt. I have a hard time restraining myself still. Help

Good question I will be looking for members answers throughout the week as well.
I just had thee worst bad beat real late in a tourney...I flopped a full boat and my opponent caught quad Qs on the damn turn ...He must have been at 3 percent or less after that flop ...Im done playing for the night.
Can i suggest taking a break playing and watching some big cash games on youtube or even just studying up for a bit?? Idk thats what i plan on doing. Good Luck.

Im sorry but im not in the mood to play afterwards.....I need a beer ......then maybe I ll play again..........I tried to play after a bad beat right away but it gets worse if try to isolate the fish and get into too many emotional desicions.........fish gets away let someone else catch him or set the bait again when i feel like it.

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i rant for 5 mins then fire off an email to support and enclose the badbeat HH. If its PS they send me a nice email back, and calm me down, then we have a nice email chat and I feel better for it...................
(nice quote PO)

Yup. That one sucks pretty bad for sure! lol

If you play poker bad beats will happen to you, thats a fact, just learn to shrug them off and try to remember that for every hand you suffer a bad beat in there is another hand you suck out in, swings and roundabouts, as I say just shug them off, laugh about them and get on with playing or it is costing you money

buy a gun

Since people are not the same emotionally, there is no universal solution. But IMO, if you truly want a solution, walking away isn't it. That's a bandaid. It can help prevent the situation from getting worse, but it doesn't do a great deal to address the underlying problem.

The best solution is to learn or train yourself not to let beats take you off your game. That was the key ability that reportedly differentiated Chip Reese, possibly the best player ever, from others of similar ability. Of course, this is easier said than done. How to do it probably has a large personal component. But I think one step is not thinking of yourself as a person who tilts. If you do, it smacks of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Ha ha
that vid made me laugh, we've all been there.
here's one of my beats that happened about 2 years ago.

two players, both all in;
me AK... them 88
flop AKK
turn 8
river 8
actually this was not a bad beat , as I had the worst hand
going in, but after that flop.......
We just gotta forget about bad beats,
move on and re-focus .

Nice way to think about it but not actually true (imo). Good players tend to get it in with the best of it in situations, more often than bad ones. No clue as to what ratio or how you could even define it but I'd assume my badbeats happen alot more often than I'm sucking out while behind.

I totally agree I am usually ahead and see way more bad beats against my favor than sucks outs. I fold when I know I'm beat so rarely do I get I chance to suck out. This is the way I play my cash games. I can see your point about suck outs in tournament play as players are forced to make moves when SS

All these are good, or... you could get a dog. Roll over it a few times on your bike. That'll make you feel better.


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This topic actually drove me crazy for a long while. Then it just seems as if a light bulb went off in my head about how bad beats work. You absolutely can not control a bad beat. Why let it stress you out if an't control it? Yes, bad beats suck really bad and always seem to happen at the worse time. I compare to them to things I can't control in life. No need in stressing over things you can not or will never have control over.

The positive about bad beats is the hero got their money in good. This is all you can ask for in poker. As someone stated earlier if there were no bad beats than the fish wouldn't keep playing.

Just try not to stress over things you can't control yourself.

Yes to the above post, no control and try not to stress. Easier said than done but if I play with a mind set to enjoy the game the bad beats fall right off me, once I start getting determined to win thats when a bad beat really affects me so I have to play for the enjoyment first and the winning second, never be a pro that way but I wont be anyway.

Just go through the entire hand and think one thing. "Did I play this hand in the best possible way I could?" If no, find out what I did wrong and fix it. If yes, move on knowing I made the right decision and just got unlucky.

It's not really a bad beat, he had trip Q's with good kicker only 77, Q7 and AQ had him beat. Turn was a Q and he was golden. A bad beat was if you pulled Q77 flop and turn and river were both Q's. Still sucks to loose those hands, I try to calm down and if I can't get my Sh** together mentaily I walk away.

Awesome quote I'm snaggin that.lol

I hate losing to people who make horrible calls like that but they are the bread and butter of the game. I usually take a smoke break and grab something to eat. Usually by the time your done cooking or eating the tilty-ness is gone.

I either break things or play with my whole roll on table to help me regain focus.

Yes, those are both most excellent tips.lol

Not busted br once yet as well as being a winning player, they have served me well

The next hands I'm playing tight with standard raises.
That's minimalizing the losses of future bad beats.