Joined: Feb '08
Location: Brazil
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4
With the time I began to repair that the poker players' great part comments on bad beats. In reality the same bad beats that you/they happen with me and with all the other players. The onlooker is to repair as the people they react in way different to the bad beats.
Some reactions helped me becoming a better and controlled player.
To see that the bad beat is part of the game is fundamental part to begin to ACCEPT.
That when what really happened it was a bad beat. In those hands below, try to say that is the favorite to win both they root all-in pre-flop:
9T of swords against Q8
AK of swords against 33
AQ against TT
78 against K2
AK against KJ against AJ against 56.
seems easy, but nor all get to see that any equal one is favorite pre-flop against two different high letters. And that suited connectors play better than a high letter and other drop. And in multiway pots, when you vary people they hold high letters, the chances of somebody with low letters increase tremendously.
But the theme is the bad beats, and they really exist and they happen, but the good news is exactly that, they happen.
In first, place, by definition a bad beat is a play in that you played correctly, it was mathematically the favorite, and it lost the hand for somebody that played badly, he/she called or it bet with worse letters than yours, and it got to win of you. Then, we reached the conclusion that to take a bad beat you have to be playing correctly, which by itself is already a tremendous fact.
The bad beat was made for the good players. The others always added the victories and you defeat the game circumstances, or simply the luck.
The trainer of the masculine Brazilian selection of volleyball, Bernardinho, when being questioned on the " luck " that Brazil came tends in the games, answered: We " studied and we a lot for the luck to play on our side ".
I have been training my luck. She sometimes appears me without being called, I sometimes need in the crucial hours, but in most of the time, it is there working to my side.
If the mathematics is on your side, remember the long run, when a book says that AA will win 90% of the times of a 95. That means that 10% of the times the 95 go yes to win of AA, for more ridiculous than that can seem.
I prefer ten thousand times to lose in a bad beat a hand for a player that I know that in the future can recover with interests the losses of what to enter in a table with you collect them and to be outplayed for their luck ".
Does he/she/you have people that still wonders, why players as, Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey and does Daniel Negreanu have so much " luck " when they play with hand as 45, 79, 36,...?
- use two seconds for to be inside with rage and to think in bursting the monitor, to kick something, to break some thing;
- one second to decide that that is nonsense because you will continue playing, and what passed, it doesn't return more.
- one minute to take note of the player's name for who you lost, and to write down which was his mistake in the hand.
- two minutes for trying to discover which was your mistake in the hand (in 90% of the bad beats, we made some mistake, as for instance, not to bet enough on time for removing the opponent of the hand).
- it is certified that calmed down to come back to the game. After a bad beat, the chances of entering in very larger healthy tilt.
In the hour of a bad beat, remember, to accept the defeat and to learn with her, it is part of a winner's road. And if he/she doesn't forget that if you are taking bad beats, it is because it is in the right road.
Joined: Nov '07
Location: Denmark
Age: 47 (M)
Posts: 42
Just try to remember that the dougnut who called you and sucked out on river is the EXACT same guy Im searching for everyday... TAG ÉM.. Use the software to find where they are at...
Joined: Mar '08
Location: Australia
Age: 49 (M)
Posts: 1158
yes good play will always out do bad.we all get beats,but we also smash with a feeling.best game in the world.controlling tilt for the next hand is one part of game that can make you stronger or weaker.
One benefit I have had of getting used to dealing with bad beats is that I play deeper into tournies, because instead of blowing all my chips after a suckout, I just sit back and build them back up. The joy and motivation in this case is lasting longer than the person who gave me the bad beat - AND the other benefit is that once people know the type of player that this person is, it is easier to play against them.
9Ts vs Q8 46.20% 0.86% 52.94% AKs vs 33 49.12% 0.55% 50.33% AQ vs TT 42.50% 0.30% 52.70% 78 vs K2 45.39% 0.65% 53.96% AK KJ AJ 56 33.76% 8.87% 14.68% 33.70%
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
Its sad but the thing that annoys me the most abouth bad beats is when ppl start saying bad beat when it wasent!!! I give (a little) respect to those who say sorry and tag the rest, even the ppl who make dumb comments may get a tag, those ppl who say it was a gut shoot!!! argghhh tag u and fish you later :}
