Do you accept to take BAD BEATS?

[Dani_California]

Bad beats are part of this game and they happen to everyone every now and then. I used to react horribly after bad beats and did what many still do: tilted and blew up my bankroll. After I started to improve my mental game, I realized that bad beats are one of those moments that divides winning players from losing players, and I haven't looked back since. I still find it hard to cope with bad beats but now I am able to calm myself down and continue with my A-game after couple of deep breaths. In the end, even after a bad beat, I am happy if I have called/raised with the best hand and realize that it's the winning play in the long run. If someone is going all-in preflop with KJ or something worse against my pocket Aces and I lose, it's only a good thing. Those type of players are exactly the ones you want to share a table with.

 

[D3STR0Y3RaJ]

Bad beats will always and can not get away from this important simply forget about this bad beat and continue to play your game.

 

[frnandoh]

Yes!

During a long time I've lost a lot making deposits when I didn't know to play to win. Then I've decided build my bankroll through freerolls. Now, I'm happy with my results and learning a lot
Those people that stay desesperated when they are victimed by a bad beat. Often, they are making 1 of 2 mistakes:
1) Or they are overplaying their bankrolls
2) Or they do simply not know or a profiting strategy and they deny it

I recomend for begginers: play a lot of freerolls, for learning, for fun and for a bit of money

 

[darthdimsky]

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?

True. But I'm following what I'm reading off the poker books and articles I'm reading up on. I used to be paralyzed by fear because of getting sucked out often and give them free cards. I've now gotten over it. I play super tight in the early stages, to either knock out calling stations or outlast them. I then exploit my earlier table image, then sizeable hand histories, position and aggressive betting to attempt racking up chips.

 

[Alex Sentsov]

You need to be able to survive. Luck is cyclical. You have to believe.

 

[Two6JJ]

They are a part of the game, just remember how many time you have done the same thing to someone else.

 

[kapobar]

It is hard to exept that ,but as years of play goes it is normal,and i m not that angry like before

 

[Nano5722]

Bad beats is the part of the game. Of course, sometimes you feel bad cause of that. But you know, that sometimes you can also win with the worst hand.

 

[FIERROS]

My mother said if you play you need to learn how to lose.

 

[matnautico]

As a sit&go hyper player I had to learn to live with them as it happens so often, its normal to get a little upset but you just cant let it affect your decisions.

 

[alar2080]

i accept already 4 mounth its amazing and in online poker its more spread than livepoker i think.

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[Samsonate]

At some point i realized that bad beats are part of it... and sometimes i beat someone else bad, and thats like a compensation for my bad beats

 

[discintildeath]

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

The worst is when they call with like 73 off and flop smart of trips. Because you know they don't know anything about good play when they do that!

 

[Serjo600]

When I get bad beat and if I still have the stack, I usually start to play more aggressive to return stack which has been, but if it is a bubble on the contrary it means that I need to play a bit easy to enter, at least in prizes. :icon_chee:bike::thefinger

 

[Rational Madman]

There are no bad beats. There is the incentive for fish to not improve and donkeys to remain greedy and then there is the bigger picture that the sharks see.

If you feel bad about a bad beat, ask yourself what poker would be like if there were no bad beats and how much more skilled the average player would be and you will be grateful for such beats existing.

 

[pokgirl]

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.

 

[wilpinsi]

i accept already 4 mounth its amazing and in online poker its more spread than livepoker i think.

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I agree with you, because in online poker we receive a higher number of hands, and with this go up the chances of taking a bad beat

 

[frnandoh]

Today yes

... I was crazy when it would happened and ended playing wrong and loosing more. but now I'm discovering how it is normal,

 

[alar2080]

I agree with you, because in online poker we receive a higher number of hands, and with this go up the chances of taking a bad beat

I didn't mean it and the fact that the random number generator is rigged to increase rake

 

[frnandoh]

Gotcha! When you lose in a 4:1 hand or spot, it just have one answer, this time belongs to your oponents, others 4 times belongs to you, but a lot of players thinks wrong, blaming bad beats, when thay are simply wrong.

 

[77Assassins]

I don't believe in bad beats as such, because I don't value hands and odds like most people.

Don't get me wrong when I was a relatively new player I did, but after many years of playing all my views changed on poker.

 

[Running Nose II]

They are part and parcel of poker, just expect and accept them.

 

[Tylor Mendez]

Yeah, that's just tilt. Good players don't tilt.

 

[77Assassins]

Yeah, that's just tilt. Good players don't tilt.

Well said also...

 

[fa1920]

I hate bad beats when they happen to me, but I love them when they happen to others hahaha