Poker Bad Beats
by
Bill
Burton
Poker bad beats is when you have a good hand that is a
favorite to win beaten by another hand.
Most of the time it
is a hand that caught a miracle draw on
the river and the player should not have been playing it to begin with.
Poker Bad Beats is
more common in low limit games because many players have 'the any two
cards can
win' mentality.
Many players will play any ace and a few
players will play
any suited cards regardless of the rank. Some players are calling
stations that
will enter the pot with marginal or terrible hands and then call all
the way to
the river in hopes making their draw.
Occasionally they do
make their hands and you suffer a bad
beat. This is a fact that you must accept when playing low limit games.
A good player will
suffer more poker bad beats because they are selective with their
starting
hands and
mostly, they are only involved in hands in which they are
favored to
win.
Poker Bad beats are a normal part of poker that a good player
learns to accept. As sure as the sun rises in the morning you are going
to
occasionally get drawn out on the river. Not so affectionately refereed
to as
drowning in the river.
Some players complain about getting
drawn out on in the game
but limit Texas Hold'em is a drawing game. If it weren't you would be
playing
two-card showdown.
You will lose an occasional pot to a bad
beat from these
players but their bad play will lose to your solid play the majority of
the
time.
In the long run you will make money from players who
constantly chase the inside straights or baby flushes.
Bad Beat or Bad Play
Before you complain about a bad beat, take a look at your
hand that was beaten. Did you belong in the hand to begin with?
Suppose
you
played a hand like J-9 off suit from under the gun and made a straight
on the
flop. It gets down to the river and you lose to a baby flush. You
complain that
it was a bad beat.
The truth is you had no business playing
that hand from
under the gun to begin with.
Another reason that players suffer bad beats is that they
try to get fancy by slow playing a semi-strong hand. This allows the
other
players to catch up. Don’t try slow play or try to get fancy.
Bet
the best hand
if you have it. The straight forward approach is usually the best as
there are
plenty of players who will call you. Make them pay.
Why give
them a free card if you don’t have to.
Play aggressively from early position with the big pairs but
realize that they won’t hold up as often. Some players feel that any
time they
have pocket aces and lose that they suffered a bad beat.
This
is not so. Pocket
Aces will win the majority of times against a small field but will only
hold up
about 35 percent of the time against a full table of calling stations.
Avoid Tilt
Going on tilt is the expression used when players become
upset and lose control of their emotions. Consequently they start
making poor
decisions and play badly. A player on tilt will start to play any
starting
hands and call when they should not.
Many players go on tilt
after suffering a
bad beat. Letting a
bad beat affect
their play is one of the worst things that can happen to a player but
it happens
all the time.
They have lost money and are trying to make it
back in one
or two hands by playing overly aggressive with weak hands.
If
you find yourself
angry or upset after suffering a bad beat then it is best to sit out
for a hand
or two or get up from the table and take a walk until you calm down.
Don’t Educate or
Berate Bad Players
Bad players will account for the majority of the money you
win at the poker table. Even though a player just put a bad beat on you
the
last thing you want to do is to educate him or berate him for his bad
play.
Educating him will only make him harder to beat in the future
and berating him
may force him to leave the game altogether depriving you of future
profits.
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