| Posted by: bobcat57 at April 13, 2007, 8:48 am | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
All depends on if the kids are within hearing range or not!! Usually have a smoke and move on to the next bad beat.
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| Posted by: The_Flash at April 13, 2007, 7:39 am | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Roll my eyes back into my head, Let smoke shoot out my ears, babble to myself in strange dialect...any of this sounding good?
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| Posted by: Baseballmom 17 at April 13, 2007, 5:55 am | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
I tend to do the same as shine. One other thing to do is to take a deep breath and remember each hand is a new hand. Once you aren't seeing red anymore, you had a chance to win the next hand. Don't play with engeance in mind though....you may make plays you otherwise wouldn't. Just take a deep breath, count to 10, and remember that the next hand is another opportunity to win.
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| Posted by: shinedown.45 at April 13, 2007, 5:38 am | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by actionjmac
Ok so you've just lost to a two outer on the river. How do you deal with it? Do you play through it? Take a break? Have a drink? Smoke? I just thought someone might be able to give some new insight on how they deal with bad beats.
depends on where I stand in chips, if I'm low in a tourney and its deep into the tourney I'll take a break and have a smoke, if I have a substantial stack, I'll just play through. On the other hand, if I'm playing a ring game and recieve a badbeat I will generally have a tantrum....
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| Posted by: eyeluvjooz at April 13, 2007, 5:24 am | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
according to my wife, heres what i do.....
step 1;disbelief
step 2:anger
step 3;denial
step 4:rage
step 5;something gets broken
step 6;acceptance
step 7; repeat all
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| Posted by: actionjmac at April 13, 2007, 5:17 am | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Ok so you've just lost to a two outer on the river. How do you deal with it? Do you play through it? Take a break? Have a drink? Smoke? I just thought someone might be able to give some new insight on how they deal with bad beats.
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| Posted by: adam57 at August 27, 2006, 7:51 am | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Well I said it before, if there were no bad beats in poker what poker game would be worth playing....I throw something outside after a poker game that you have to put effort to throw but wont breka anything it relieves stress.
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| Posted by: Bombjack at August 26, 2006, 3:01 pm | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by Ronaldadio
To cut a long story short, here are some extracts of a poem by Rudyard Kipling....
OMG, what on earth is CardsChat coming to?
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| Posted by: Ronaldadio at August 26, 2006, 9:28 am | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by smd173
That's not a bad way of looking at it. But how do you cope with continually losing to two outers? Do you imagine Chelsea giving up 2 goals in injury time? And when it happens to you three times in a day, is that equivalent to Chelsea losing 3 in a row?
When Chelsea loses to an inferior team, it is usually because of mistakes that they made. Where if you are pushing with AA preflop and someone calls with KQ and makes a straight, you didn't make the mistake, they did and got lucky.
I have my own businesses and because of that when things happen the first thing I do is look at what my staff or I could have done differently. You normally find there is something you did or didnt do that would have had an impact.
So taking that into poker and the examples you make you have to thinkDid I bet enough - If I had bet more would he have folded?Did I bet too much - if I had not gone all in would the other guy have been more suspicious and... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: F Paulsson at August 25, 2006, 6:57 pm | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by MyNetBets
Is that your 1000th post or your presidential canidate acceptance speech?
FP for president!
Quote:
lets not forget to have fun
Amen!
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| Posted by: MyNetBets at August 25, 2006, 6:48 pm | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by F Paulsson
This isn't the topic I thought I was originally going to spend my one-thousandth post on, but here goes:
We - you, me, Phil Hellmuth, everybody - lay bad beats on people all the time. ALL THE TIME. We just don't necessarily remember them or, when we realize that we outdrew some poor guy, we somehow figure that we played it well and he should have raised to protect his hand so he can damn well suit himself. Take, for instance, this hand I played earlier tonight:
$3/$6 limit shorthanded hold 'em. I'm in the big blind, with 9-5 of diamonds. Middle player calls, button calls and small blind completes. I check. The flop comes 7-7-6, one seven is a diamond. So I have an inside straight draw and a backdoor flushdraw. Against someone holding 8-8 or a six, I have quite a few outs. Anyway, the small blind checks and although it's possible to toss in a bet right now to try to steal the pot, people call with random overcards waaay too often fo... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: F Paulsson at August 25, 2006, 6:06 pm | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
This isn't the topic I thought I was originally going to spend my one-thousandth post on, but here goes:
We - you, me, Phil Hellmuth, everybody - lay bad beats on people all the time. ALL THE TIME. We just don't necessarily remember them or, when we realize that we outdrew some poor guy, we somehow figure that we played it well and he should have raised to protect his hand so he can damn well suit himself. Take, for instance, this hand I played earlier tonight:
$3/$6 limit shorthanded hold 'em. I'm in the big blind, with 9-5 of diamonds. Middle player calls, button calls and small blind completes. I check. The flop comes 7-7-6, one seven is a diamond. So I have an inside straight draw and a backdoor flushdraw. Against someone holding 8-8 or a six, I have quite a few outs. Anyway, the small blind checks and although it's possible to toss in a bet right now to try to steal the pot, people call with random overcards waaay too often for me to be able to pull that off, so I check too. Middl... | | Read Entire Entry |
| Posted by: BKrywko1 at August 25, 2006, 5:16 pm | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
I'm not fond of receiving bad beats, but let's look at the flip side of this question: What is your reaction when you hit a runner-runner flush or 2-outer to win a big pot, stay alive in a tournament, or knock someone out? Are you generally fairly calm about it, or are you whooping it up like a jackass?
I generally don't get too excited or too down playing at the tables, so I guess I have the right demeanor when it comes to handling "bad beats". Look, when you're in hands where you're a 4-1 favorite, that means that 20% of the time you're gonna lose...if anyone can't handle this level of disappointment in poker, do yourself a favor: Just hand over the rest of your money to us right now, and save yourself the time and trouble.
Oh yeah, and if you can't handle bad beats on a poker table, I'd love to take your money out on the golf course.
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| Posted by: F Paulsson at August 25, 2006, 4:11 pm | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
A bad beat does not change your odds for the future, due to law of numbers. Numbers don't care about the future, and they ignore the past. If you get sucked out on, your chance of winning any future hand has not changed at all; the only thing that's changed is the size of your stack.
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| Posted by: MyNetBets at August 25, 2006, 1:41 pm | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by F Paulsson
Although I can see how this is a psychologically pleasing way to look at it, you do realize that it's not true, right?
im not sure i quite get your question....Explain?
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| Posted by: F Paulsson at August 25, 2006, 1:33 pm | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Quote: Originally Posted by MyNetBets
Everyone has there own way of dealing with bad beats...i like think it actually increases my odds for the future due to law of numbers.
Although I can see how this is a psychologically pleasing way to look at it, you do realize that it's not true, right?
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| Posted by: MyNetBets at August 25, 2006, 1:29 pm | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Everyone has there own way of dealing with bad beats...i like think it actually increases my odds for the future due to law of numbers.
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| Posted by: smd173 at August 25, 2006, 12:14 pm | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
That's not a bad way of looking at it. But how do you cope with continually losing to two outers? Do you imagine Chelsea giving up 2 goals in injury time? And when it happens to you three times in a day, is that equivalent to Chelsea losing 3 in a row?
When Chelsea loses to an inferior team, it is usually because of mistakes that they made. Where if you are pushing with AA preflop and someone calls with KQ and makes a straight, you didn't make the mistake, they did and got lucky.
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| Posted by: KerouacsDog at August 25, 2006, 11:57 am | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
I'm a Torquay fan. We don't get bad beats. We just get the sh*t kicked out of us every game. Then, as we leave the ground, the seagulls crap on us just for fun.
Very good post bud. I've never looked at it like that. Even the greatest team in the world will get beat sometimes.
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| Posted by: Ronaldadio at August 25, 2006, 8:49 am | | Topic: Dealing with Bad Beats Forum: Card Chat |
Hello all.
This post might help put into pespective bad beats and how to deal with them. Some of you regular guys might be in disbelief thet I can finaly handle them, but for newer players I`ll try to explaing what my thoughts are...
If a person said to you - "for the next 12 months I am going to give you $100 to bet on soccer every week, but the following must apply...win only and it has to be the same team every week"
So, for argument sake, I would pick Chelsea as my team in England at the moment (This, by the way, could apply to any sport). Now some weeks Chelsea will loose to an inferior team (all in pre flop with AA, other person shows KQ and they hit the straight) other weeks they will draw (split pot) but the majority of the time they will win their game (They have AA, forced all in and it holds up)
This is how I started to think about bad beats in poker and it has helped me a lot.
I hope you guys understand what I`m going on about and I hop... | | Read Entire Entry |
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