What is a bad beat?

bash991 · Jul 28, 2017

I saw many hands in poker videos but they are notactually that unlucky at all.

MountHollyDK · Jul 28, 2017

Here's a bad beat.

1/2 NL game at the Trop in Atlantic City about 8 years back.

I have A-X of clubs in position. After the flop of A-club-club and a blank on the turn one other guy and I start betting back and forth. Quickly we were both all in and there was more than $600 in the pot.

I turn over top pair with the A high flush draw. He turns over only a weaker flush draw. I was amazed but wow was I in a great spot.

The other guy stood up to leave the table. I politely told him, "Well sir, the 5 of clubs will give you an inside straight flush".

River card: 5 of clubs

You can go decades and not lose to a for real one outer. I managed to do it with $600 on the line.

gocho2009 · Jul 28, 2017

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

MountHollyDK · Jul 28, 2017

gocho2009 said:
A bad beat is a hand in which a player who was clear favorite is overcome by a series of improbable events

I think the original poster was more questioning the clear favorite part. We've all seen people complain about a "bad beat" when they are talking about a 60/40 or less type situation. As far as I'm concerned if you're not at least 80% pre flop then you have no argument to call it a "bad beat".

People also, in general, go all in wayyyyyyyy too often pre flop. I get it in a short stacked tournament situation but there is a large portion of people who think that the entire game is a race to get all of their money in the pot when there are still 5 cards left to come.

Great! You're 80% with Aces. Do it 5 times and you're gonna be broke, yet it's a "bad beat".

1noname1 · Jul 28, 2017

Watch the video of the wsop 2014 Connor Drynan AA vz AA

wilpinsi · Jul 28, 2017

We should analyze if it was a bad, or we played wrong and for this reason we thought it was a bad.
Things happen without much logic sometimes in poker, one of them is this kind of bad that knocks you down

Nano5722 · Jul 28, 2017

Bad beat - is the situation, when you loose the hand with better chances to win. Often happens in online poker. But if you will play well and make a distance in poker you will not focus your mind on such a things, like bad beats, bad luck and so on. Just try to play well, and everything will be alright.

C3H6S · Jul 28, 2017

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...this situation for two hand or two days

niphon56 · Jul 28, 2017

You got AA,
your opponent got TJ
flop A K 2, both all-in, river Q.
You had 97% to win before river, but your opponent win at the end for his 3%.

vov4ik · Jul 29, 2017

A bad kick is when you collect a combination of excellent 2 pair or set and a win of 80-90%, and the player comes a set older - - a flush - or a straight combination, this is a very bad blow

MountHollyDK · Jul 29, 2017

niphon56 said:
You got AA,
your opponent got TJ
flop A K 2, both all-in, river Q.
You had 97% to win before river, but your opponent win at the end for his 3%.

It's closer to 6 percent. 3 queens left times 2 (rule of 2) is 6. It's still a bad beat but, you've identified a common flaw in bad beat stories. People aren't all that good at determining their odds.

Rational Madman · Jul 29, 2017

In a colloquial/amateur use of the term, a bad beat is any loss you take where you were your opponent took a risk that you assumed no sane human would take.

In the professional scene, a bad beat is also the same meaning BUT excludes cases where the winner of the bad beat hand was already on top.

An example would be you going all-in and bluffing on the river on a board where the opponent has only pair of seven and that is the lowest card and they call you. This is colloquial speaking a bad beat but professionally speaking a fair beat.

More interestingly, Ace high flush or top full house beating king flush or lesser full house respectively are not considered bad beats in the professional scene and are strictly referred to as fair beat cooler hands.

10058765 · Jul 29, 2017

all in preflop.......just an example......

froggeedogs · Jul 29, 2017

I had one the other day that I consider to be a bad beat. Standard raise to me. I had KQ suited, flop comes KQJ rainbow. he bets, I raise, he reraises. so of course now we go all in. Happy, but not surprised, to see him with KJ only.
Of course river is a jack. I think this qualifies. His opening bet, small, was in no way indicative of a straight. no flush possible and even if he had AK I had him with two pair. so live and learn. only two cards could have helped him better his hand and sure enough one falls.

underdog140 · Jul 29, 2017

A bad beat is when you get it in while being a huge favourite but end up losing the hand.

sryulaw · Jul 29, 2017

It hurts in the soul. AA is always preflop favorite.

bash991 · Jul 29, 2017

So when i am like 95 to 99 percents to win and comes that 1 card that change every thing then thats Bad beat

colbear · Jul 29, 2017

different opinions

There are many opinions of what a bad beat are and what the odds have to be to consider it a bad beat . But the cards are not what are important as much as the situation . If you have AA but waited till you had 2 BB to push then 5 callers call you and 72 os BB wins best to worst hands but definitely not a bad beat was the proper way to play both hands

So it has more to do with the way the hand was played in a certain situation so just to make it easier use the same 2 starting hands but you have the same stack and 72os wins this is a bad beat because the hand was played wrong and the one who made the horrible play won . This is the extreme but if you had AA and he had KK it's not a bad beat if K hits is just unlucky . So you really have to look at the way the hand was played more than what happened in the end

BriceNice · Jul 29, 2017

a bad beat is any river on full tilt poker

jhon24 · Jul 29, 2017

A bad beat is the way of the poker room to bring us down with the feet on the ground whem we think nothing's gonna stop us to become billionaries.

Running Nose II · Jul 29, 2017

Bad beats just don't happen on line, they were also very prevalent in the WSOP

FIERROS · Jul 29, 2017

bad bet

In poker, bad beat is a subjective term for a hand in which a player with what appear to be strong cards nevertheless loses. It most often occurs where one player bets the clearly stronger hand and their opponent makes a poor call that eventually "sucks out" and wins. There is no consensus among poker players as to what exactly constitutes a bad beat and often players will disagree about whether a particular hand was a bad beat.

jimmy andres · Jul 29, 2017

Hello a bad blow is when you see that your opponent equals all your bets you think you are going to win and when you see the cards. You lose!!

vitalii029 · Jul 30, 2017

I think it's a great blade,but I could be wrong

vvalente · Jul 30, 2017

It's just a bad beat if on the turn you had 70% or more chances of winning the pot. And it's also very much about the kind of hand you got into the game.

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