What is a bad beat?

[Jam_V92]

A bad beat is a hand in which a player who was clear favorite is overcome by a series of improbable events. The boundary between a regular beat and a bad beat varies from player to player. Normally, it is said that if a hand wins and its options to win were about 5-10%, then it is a bad beat, or if a player wins by connecting two perfect cards.

 

[makisaa]

When you have aces and the other has 22 and lose at river from another 2!

 

[WOLF55555]

bad beat- a long streak of failures. It can last for several days and several months.

 

[pokgirl]

a bad beat its when ypur have monster hand and beat with better ...full vs poker in show down hahhaah u have a better chance to win but other pllyer win...

 

[GrouxLive]

I gave this bad beat to a player last night in a MTT... I kind of felt bad. My suited AK over his AK.

 

[Kenzie 96]

For way to many a bad beat seems to be any hand that you end up losing, or loosing, no matter your cards or how you chose to play the hand.

 

[dgospa]

Well most of players calls bad beat, some hand where they make mistake(blame luck softver etc)
But this is bad beat.

 

[Serjo600]

BB

 

[GrouxLive]

This just happened to me in ACR's $1500 GTD ($10+$1) MTT. I raised pre-flop to three times the big blind, and he called with a pair of deuces. He then promptly flopped quad deuces, while my KK goes on to flush out.

Who calls 3xBB with a pair of deuces, really?

 

[sequoia]

Something like this

 

[PokerNuts01]

This just happened to me in ACR's $1500 GTD ($10+$1) MTT. I raised pre-flop to three times the big blind, and he called with a pair of deuces. He then promptly flopped quad deuces, while my KK goes on to flush out.

Who calls 3xBB with a pair of deuces, really?

Who calls?? This guy have 4-5 times more chips than you and 3bb is nothing for him mate.. everybody will call in this situation lol

 

[MikeCarasone]

Bad beat is when you start with the best hand and lose.

 

[Jerry Kierl]

I gave this bad beat to a player last night in a MTT... I kind of felt bad. My suited AK over his AK.


7% chance to win and 90% to tie. I would think it bad if it happened to me.

 

[BlackJesus]

A bad beat is a hand in which a player who was clear favorite is overcome by a series of improbable events

Exactly! If opponent has 15% or less chances, but he still wins, I consider that a bad beat i am suffering.

Gladly at least pokerstars display probabilities, when players are All-in. Otherwise you use those poker odds calculators if dont know the probabilities in head.