InnerForce
Enthusiast
Silver Level
You are not alone...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.
You are not alone...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.
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?