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I keep hearing people say that have had a"bad beat"what does this mean?

A bad beat is when you have a strong winning hand beaten by an even stronger winning hand. For example you may have a full house that is beaten by another player making Quads on the river. This would be quite a severe bad beat as your oppenent only had one'out'that could beat you.A lot of amateur players mistake general poker quirks for bad beats. For example a player who wins a pot by drawing to and making either a Flush or Straight (roughly 4:1 odds) can easily tell if he is playing with someone who doesn't know the game if they call a'Bad Beat'.To summarize (from Wikipeda):"when a particularly strong hand loses to an even stronger one. In some casinos there is a"bad beat jackpot"awarded whenever a player suffers a particular beat."

I am guessing its the state of their heart after a not so lucky game!

A bad beat means that you had a good hand that you would win with in most cases, but your opponent won with 4 of a kind or better.

A bad beat is like a bad luck story. Like you have a great hand and get beat luckily by the opposition.