Do you accept to take BAD BEATS?

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Some say they will not like take bad beats, so would not it be better to play chess?
Who has not already had a wonderful bad beats and even after losing think it was an unforgettable hand to have participated,We should always be ready for absurd moves, where we think we either get a bad, or the system is stealing, in fact none of this is true, bads happen because of the variance of the game, we often get into bad beats, to our own risk,Who did not have the opportunity to escape a bad play, but preferred to try to move on, even though he knew he was lost
When we win we think we are the masters of poker, but when everything goes wrong, we blame everyone, the system, the players, our bad luck.
We never admit that if we took a bad beat, it was because we went wrong playing
What can we call bad?
You go out like crazy with AA, and taking all your chips to the table, and your opponent paying with QT, win with 9-J-Q-K-A
Hand like this happen all the time, whether online or live, when you bring a bad, do not panic, go ahead with your strategy and everything will turn out well
 
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Death, taxes and bad beats - can't avoid any of them forever.
 
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When I find someone who will reliably put all his chips in with QT, I can't say losing the odd hand when he lucks out really bothers me.
 
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lol i accept them even though i get pissed. Most of my bad beats are caused by donks, good players normally react the way the should against certain moves i make but donks are so unpredictable, and they are the ones responsible for my bad beats
 
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I accept them as a part of the game, as well as bad beats of my opponents. Ok, the latter I accept much easier. ;)
But when I lose because of my bad play not because of bad beat then it is much harder to accept.
 
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depends

how I feel about it depends on the situation .site free rolls you expect it .short stack against huge stack good chance he's gonna call so again ok .
$109 tourney and early stage some jack ass calls that way ok i'm pulling hair out now
 
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I try to maintain an even keel. Remembering that being a 2 to 1 favorite still means you will be losing one out of three times helps. It's a little harder to take when someone hits a one or two outer on you but then again, there is some satisfaction in not letting it get the better of you. I had a coach in junior high that used to say, "It's not what happens to you but how you handle it that determines your emotional well-being." I think managing the highs and the lows is a big part of growing in poker. It's worth focusing on this if you really want to improve. (IMHO)
 
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I try to maintain an even keel. Remembering that being a 2 to 1 favorite still means you will be losing one out of three times helps. It's a little harder to take when someone hits a one or two outer on you but then again, there is some satisfaction in not letting it get the better of you. I had a coach in junior high that used to say, "It's not what happens to you but how you handle it that determines your emotional well-being." I think managing the highs and the lows is a big part of growing in poker. It's worth focusing on this if you really want to improve. (IMHO)






Not to make too fine a point of it, but 2 to 1 favorite means the odds over time are that you will average losing approximately 1 time out of three in that situation. Near as I can tell a large % of those posting in the Bad Beats thread think losing 2 of 4 or 5 hands in this situation proves that online poker is rigged.
Good post by the way.
 
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The truth is not easy to take bad beats ... but that happens whenever you are playing poker .... remember that we are human beings and that we can make mistakes ... and never forget that the wonderful thing about poker is that it can happen any Thing when we play a hand ...
 
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sometimes very absurd actions become a winning situation
 
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I sure feel like I'm being tested this week. I've taken a lot of bad beats.
Feel like the poker Gods are against me. But I'm still trying to play through it.
I love the game and I know the variance will start shifting my way soon.
 
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To me it is perfectly OK to have a bad beat occasionally.

Far worse is when bad beats occur repeatedly. That also happens.

I become tilted when those are lucky rivers for the opponents. If its flop, I live through it easier.
 
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yes i accept bad beat and sit up!!! hahah
 
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They say that only the bad players win with bad beats, although I resist to believe this, many times because we are in the blind or because it is cheap we go with not very good cards and if we were able to connect in the flop we ended up giving a mortal blow To the premiuns, be AA, AK, AX etc etc. Much depends on how many players enter the hand for the success of those cards, but as always there is a smile when your 22 connect and end in a winning set.
 
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I do not a let a bad beat to happen, as much as I can. Usually poker is played till river, so you must wait the finish of the hand. Another thing is bluff which can confuse things!
 
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Bad Beat is just another way of saying, I lost that hand with two good cards. The board did not match your hand and that's the end of it. You can't change it you can't influence it, and the other player or players cares did match the board.

You may not agree with the way that the others played their hands but, and this is the best part, now you know what they are wiling to play, so you have more info on the player. Write it down and keep record. Poker is a long term game, won over the years not minutes or hours.

Play more worry less.
 
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You may not agree with the way that the others played their hands but, and this is the best part, now you know what they are wiling to play, so you have more info on the player. Write it down and keep record. Poker is a long term game, won over the years not minutes or hours.
Very good point! It's not whether you lose or win, but what you do with the knowledge gained in the process.
 
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Bad beats aren't even that bad, in my opinion.

As far as I can tell, most beats aren't bad at all. Losing as an 80% with say AA vs 22-KK isn't bad, at least in my opinion it isn't. I can't get upset losing 20/100 vs 22-KK when I'm winning 80/100. I'm happy with that exchange 100% of the time. In fact, thank goodness 22-KK wins 20% of the time because, if they didn't, I wouldn't be getting paid off by weaker hands. The losses are necessary for long term profitability.

Is losing as a 98% favorite a bad beat? Not to me. I mean, same thing as above, I'm winning so many many times that I can't not be upset losing to a 1 outer. In the long run I'm winning 99/100 times. That 1 loss is absolutely nothing to get upset about.

In fact, I'd be more impressed if the 2% actually hit because it's going to happen so infrequently that I'd probably have to congratulate my opponent on actually hitting it. It's such a longshot that how can I be upset?
 
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Strings of bad beats used to tilt me hard. Not anymore. I make a very conscious effort to remember my good beats now try to examine what I could've done to avoid the bad beat.
 
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beats are just part of the game. we get and give beats so it goes both ways.
 
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Strings of bad beats used to tilt me hard. Not anymore. I make a very conscious effort to remember my good beats now try to examine what I could've done to avoid the bad beat.

Most of the time... you can't do anything to avoid it. Donks or bingo players either don't care, don't understand or choose to ignore probability, percentages, number of outs etc. So even if you are 90%+ to win the hand on the turn and you were to go all in, a donk will still call you with their one or two outer. Likewise if you were to play very cautiously and just check to the river you wouldn't make profit in the long run should you win.

What to do eh?
 
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Most of the time... you can't do anything to avoid it. Donks or bingo players either don't care, don't understand or choose to ignore probability, percentages, number of outs etc. So even if you are 90%+ to win the hand on the turn and you were to go all in, a donk will still call you with their one or two outer. Likewise if you were to play very cautiously and just check to the river you wouldn't make profit in the long run should you win.

What to do eh?
You make it sound like a bad player calling you down with only 10% equity to win is a bad thing.
 
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no, but that's what it is :( Maybe with time and a big bankroll could get better.
And you're right, you can have 99% win and lose in the river (that just happened to me one time)
 
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They say that only the bad players win with bad beats, although I resist to believe this

You should resist it, because it doesn't make sense! Recognising when your opponent has a big hand and you have the nuts should be one of the spots you're looking for.
 
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