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Somebody mentioned this in another question...some beats are just normal, while others are"bad beats."What would you consider a bad beat?I dunno, it seems a"bad beat"should be more than 3:1 or 4:1 against to count. Imho, the 3rd suited card to come with the turn and river to go is just too common to be considered a bad beat, for example.

If you were all in with the best hand and someone caught a card on the river to beat you, thats a bad beat. This answer is in reference to No Limit Texas Hold-Em.

A bad beat in poker is generally when the odds were in your favor to win, but you don't.For example, this week my friend was playing Texas Hold'em in a pub poker league. He raised pre-flop about five times the big blind. He had AK. The flop was AKQ. He moved all in with his top two pair.The other player had QJ and called. Now in a situation like this QJ wins 25% of the time. He can catch another queen, a ten, or in this case two cards of the same suit to make a flush.That's exactly what did happen, two more cards came of the same suit, and the guy won a very large pot.Now pre-flop AK beats QJ about 65% of the time. It wasn't a great move to call a big bet before the flop with QJ. When the flop came, the guy only made bottom pair. He had a fairly unlikely draw to a runner runner flush, a straight, or trips. All pretty unlikely.So you would call this situation a bad beat, because the vast majority of the time AK wins in this situation. But you have a bad call pre-flop. An even worse call on the flop. And a pretty unlikely sequence of events transpiring for the bad player to win the pot.Unfortunately you can make all the right moves in poker, and still lose.

Don’t dare tell bad beat stories. Bad beats are just like the weather. Everyone talks about it but nobody can do anything to change it. It's a really boring subject and so are bad beats. Everyone has suffered bad beats and by constantly talking about them you just make yourself look like as a loser. If you want to talk about poker why would you want to talk about your defeats? Whining about bad beats will not put fear into any of opponents. Poker expert Mike Caro suggests you tell your opponents how lucky you have been and how the cards have been going your way. This will portray a winning image rather than that of a loser.

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