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Message: [QUOTE="AlexTheOwl, post: 4066423, member: 269625"] If you are tight, it is to your advantage to be perceived as loose. Players will bet with weaker hands than they should. You profit when other players make mistakes. Of course sometimes they will get lucky. You don't tell us what cards your opponent had in your example, but if you had no diamonds then your chance of winning was probably close to 60%. Your opponent's play was reasonable. It would have been mathematically wrong for him to fold. By shoving, he may get the other players to fold, and he is guaranteed to see two more cards, either of which could give him the winning hand. You say you realize this isn't the worst bad beat story. There is no strict definition in the poker world of what is and isn't a bad beat, but your personal definition seems very broad. Losing when your opponent played well and your edge was only about ten percent isn't generally thought of as a bad beat. [/QUOTE]