How do you deal with bad beats on tourneys?

Hello everyone. I just registered here, because i have been starting to play poker more seriously a while ago. I have won couple tournaments before, i had a break and now i'm back in the game.

The bad beats are just pissing me off so badly, how do you deal with those?

This just happened:

My QJ vs opponents AT

I called pre-flop

Then the flop comes....

FLOP: 8, 9, T

So i get straight, opponent has a TT

I checked flop (i usually do to get bigger stack, cos opponent thinks i have nothing) and opponent raised a bit and then i bet all in and opponent follows

Then turn: Another T

Then river: An ace

So opponent got a full house and i lose with my straight

And today, on this tournament i had so many bad beats, like lost with an AK with same kind to a 29's and many other situations i just can't remember

I only play good cards til the end and sometimes, though it's very rare i bluff on flop. I also bust bluffs if i have a gut feeling. I play good cards aggressively but bad cards i do fold.

Is there something wrong with my gameplay or? I want to be a professional poker player. I play mostly turbo tournaments

Know you are not alone, bad beats are part of poker and going to happen. Learn what you can from them.Put them behind you, because there is nothing you can do about them.They are in the past. So go on to the next hand. GL to you

Blindfold.

Hi and welcome to CardsChat where I am sure you will find loads of stuff to help you.

As for your present question, the answer lies within your own mindset.

Poker is about probability. The problem with probability is that it doesn't always work in the positive sense. So just cos something is twice as likely to happen as not, does not mean it won't happen.

The best approach in my opinion is to ensure that you play what you consider to be the correct way and if probability out does you, then so be it. Simply think, that's probability and that's how it is. There is nothing you can do about it other than to play the correct way. If there is a chance you could lose, then you could lose. Nothing is guaranteed unless you have the best hand at the end.

Don't get tilted by losing and put it down to probability and if you do lose, learn from what happened and adapt your play next time to give you a better chance.

Best wishes

BB

Some cards on PS have double significance .For example AQ-72,J10-32.

Play the hand correctly and move onto the next hand, badbeats happen its part of the game. Dont tilt.

You must be prepared that the turn and river you play a bad pass so try to raise a bet if you have a good flop but not berries all in until you are sure that your hand is the best but your ede on occasions that you find With surprises is part of poker

it can be frustrating to take repeated beats, but I try and see the silver lining.

Whenever you have a bad string of varience, a good string will be around the corner.

If im playing correctly, not tilting, and still losing alot, I will sometimes step UP my stake immediatly after in an attempt to capitalize on the upcoming varience swing. It has worked very well for me with this approach.

Lol man there is stories on here everyday about bad beats, so all u can do is shrug it off and know u were making the right decision and just unlucky. Everyone had it happen to them , so your definetly not alone

You really can't avoid bad beats. To me I feel like they happen alot. You could have the best hand every time and they will always find a way to beat you on the river \:

change perspective: if you think of your game in the sense of one game or day or week you will go crazy. If I bet you that we flip a coin and if it is heads you pay me a dollar and if its tails I pay you a dollar fifty. If our flip comes up heads twenty times in a row you dont think I am giving you a bad beat...instead you know that this fish is going to end up giving me all his money. The fish is just a rotating cast of players that have negative expectation but manage to buck the odds, as long as you continue to make the positive expectation play you will take his money.

My QJ vs opponents AT

I called pre-flop

Then the flop comes....

FLOP: 8, 9, T

So i get straight, opponent has a TT

I checked flop (i usually do to get bigger stack, cos opponent thinks i have nothing) and opponent raised a bit and then i bet all in and opponent follows

Then turn: Another T

Then river: An ace

So opponent got a full house and i lose with my straight
AT has top pair top Kicker...which he overrates
However KQs, KJs ect may also have called with straight draw two overcards and maybe backdoor flush draw. meaning a lot of villans might have called and each having a chance to bust you.
consider this line... bet out three quarter pot on flop if called then you know your against trips, two pair, top pair, chop or strong draw. more info means better choices.

Blindfold said:

Hello everyone. I just registered here, because i have been starting to play poker more seriously a while ago. I have won couple tournaments before, i had a break and now i'm back in the game.

The bad beats are just pissing me off so badly, how do you deal with those?

This just happened:

My QJ vs opponents AT

I called pre-flop

Then the flop comes....

FLOP: 8, 9, T

So i get straight, opponent has a TT

I checked flop (i usually do to get bigger stack, cos opponent thinks i have nothing) and opponent raised a bit and then i bet all in and opponent follows

Then turn: Another T

Then river: An ace

So opponent got a full house and i lose with my straight

And today, on this tournament i had so many bad beats, like lost with an AK with same kind to a 29's and many other situations i just can't remember

I only play good cards til the end and sometimes, though it's very rare i bluff on flop. I also bust bluffs if i have a gut feeling. I play good cards aggressively but bad cards i do fold.

Is there something wrong with my gameplay or? I want to be a professional poker player. I play mostly turbo tournaments

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I react really bad about the bad beats, sometimes I get really mad, it is sad but always happen and will always do, the best thing we can do is to accept them and try to learn from them. And if it is afecting you way too much you can try to reduce the number of times you get exposed to all in's and stuff, always keep control of the pot size and push with good hands only, until you don't feel like you are in a downswing

i try not to worrie too hard cuz 7-10 you will win those hands and at that rate you should stay up

Bad beats are a part of the game. You have to shrug them off and focus on the next hand or tournament. I see you are a tight player, why don't you switch to regular tournaments. The blinds last longer and you can fold more bad hands and wait for the good hands. Best of luck to you.

As someone told you bad beats is the part of the game , and we should accept this.
If you have a lot of bad beats , and you feel you're on the tilt. I suggest to you to leave the table for some days , and get another occupation , and when you feel you ready to play your best game , then open the table , and play.
Thanks.

Just try to not go all in so you can have second chance.

Blindfold said:

Hello everyone. I just registered here, because i have been starting to play poker more seriously a while ago. I have won couple tournaments before, i had a break and now i'm back in the game.

The bad beats are just pissing me off so badly, how do you deal with those?

This just happened:

My QJ vs opponents AT

I called pre-flop

Then the flop comes....

FLOP: 8, 9, T

So i get straight, opponent has a TT

I checked flop (i usually do to get bigger stack, cos opponent thinks i have nothing) and opponent raised a bit and then i bet all in and opponent follows

Then turn: Another T

Then river: An ace

So opponent got a full house and i lose with my straight

And today, on this tournament i had so many bad beats, like lost with an AK with same kind to a 29's and many other situations i just can't remember

I only play good cards til the end and sometimes, though it's very rare i bluff on flop. I also bust bluffs if i have a gut feeling. I play good cards aggressively but bad cards i do fold.

Is there something wrong with my gameplay or? I want to be a professional poker player. I play mostly turbo tournaments

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Hello my friend! I am glad to greet you on the forum!Do not take to heart!Poker without Bad Beats are not poker! go back and look again! And find my mistake! And so until you become better!
ERRORS remove! otherwise I am ready to help you! But you need to find errors on their own! Good luck my friend!

4 T's is a four of a kind but yea still getting bad beated sucks, just go for a walk and cool down or have a beer.

You can only control the controllable. If you have the best hand on the turn or river you are playing well. It's always possible to get busted out by an inferior hand if your opponent is loose or a fish. It will continue to frustrate you but good hands best bad hands most of the time. Patience is the key

I had a lot of hands .. this is one of them
CIS 3.5+R
blinds 200/400
in my hands BB Q10 Jan the player in middle position number 400
flop K J 6 , I check opponent check
the turn A, I raise he riras, I Allin opponent Allin...open at it KK
river 6

It does suck to consistently get sucked out on when your ahead but that is poker and it does happen. If you can look at the hand and say I played the hand correctly but was just unlucky at the end then you should be happy not sad. Poker is a game of percentages and nothing except the ultimate nuts are guaranteed. Keep getting it in good and it will turn in your favor soon enough. Good luck on the felts!

with this hand you're out of luck. but also a check-all-in is also not correct in this situation. it is necessary to get his chips. because if your opponent has nothing, he simply folds.

I already get used to it. Try to keep track of your ROI. If between dawnstreak and upstreak you got a plus$, then just wait Upstreak. If you got minus, lets lern to play.

The way to overcome bad beat is to remember that you will make money from your opponent in the long run if he continues to make bad plays. Instead of being annoyed, explore your weaknesses to benefit to the fullest. The laws of probability and mathematics determine that the player who continues to risk all his chips with the worst hand will lose in the long run, which in fact makes him the type of player you want at your table.

Blindfold said:

Hello everyone. I just registered here, because i have been starting to play poker more seriously a while ago. I have won couple tournaments before, i had a break and now i'm back in the game.

The bad beats are just pissing me off so badly, how do you deal with those?

This just happened:

My QJ vs opponents AT

I called pre-flop

Then the flop comes....

FLOP: 8, 9, T

So i get straight, opponent has a TT

I checked flop (i usually do to get bigger stack, cos opponent thinks i have nothing) and opponent raised a bit and then i bet all in and opponent follows

Then turn: Another T

Then river: An ace

So opponent got a full house and i lose with my straight

And today, on this tournament i had so many bad beats, like lost with an AK with same kind to a 29's and many other situations i just can't remember

I only play good cards til the end and sometimes, though it's very rare i bluff on flop. I also bust bluffs if i have a gut feeling. I play good cards aggressively but bad cards i do fold.

Is there something wrong with my gameplay or? I want to be a professional poker player. I play mostly turbo tournaments

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Everything goes wrong, all the opponents fall and when it's with you or in 20 hands, you flop a crack the guy makes a sequence, you make a sequence it a flush you a flush it a full. The first thing to do is to have something close to you that when launched does not increase your damage even more. Countless keyboards, monitors and mice are damaged due to suckouts. So it is always good to have something that can be thrown with full force and that does not represent danger.
As for the game itself, I think the most important thing in these sessions is if you determine a loss ceiling, for example, you have 5k of bankroll and you normally swing $ 300 up or down on one of those days and you are probably losing $ 1,000 a short time. Despair is immediate and the tendency to encourage and make the game huge, but remember that article at that time and do not do it. The best thing to do at the moment is to get up from all the tables and breathe even for 5 minutes. And the main thing when returning to the game is to come back with goals and ceilings. I know how difficult it is to stop in a tragic session, but the next day you will thank yourself for stopping. Then as in the example quoted, on the back define, for example, that if he loses another $ 1,000 he will press on the shootdown and stop the session. Surely the next day $ 3,000 will have a lot more value than at that time they have for you.