How do you get over the bad beats?

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My lord, they have been sick as of late. Check 7,9 suited flip a straight, but best with a j high??
 

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I'm still crying about bets from 1972 when 1 was 12 and started this shit !<<)
 

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Poker?
Poker players tend to have selective memory. Especially online. Thinking they are almost always on the wrong end of it.
I make a point to take note of all the times I suck out on someone else.
And just remind yourself that if you are a good player you will take more bad beats just due to the sheer # of times you get it in good vs the times you are behind.

The ones that are hard to shake are the ones when you are super deep in a tournament that you have invested hours in and a river puts an abrupt end to it. Almost every time that happens though you can probably point to a lucky runout that enabled you to get to that point.

Just enjoy the ride. If you're not playing above your head there is always tomorrow. Just keep getting it in good, it's all you can control.
 
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Chase until your bankrupt then get drunk and then fuck a worthless skank because only then she will feel on your level, then pass out. Wait 3 days to reload. Rinse, repeat
 

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That's easy BB go to a higher limit table and Chase hands and hope for best to recoup all your losses
 

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I break stuff. If my girlfriend around I backhand her, if my dog is around I boot it across the room.
 

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if you can't tolerate bad beats then you have a couple of choices.
first, make sure you are always getting the worst of it. this way
when you win, you will be giving the bad beat rather than receiving it.
or second, you can just stop gambling.

if bad beats bother you that much, then play lower and lower stakes
until there is no pain.
 
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Bad beats are a necessary evil for a winning poker player. You want that person getting their money in with the worst of it, and yes they will
hit much of the time, because poker is also a game of small edges.

That being said, I get real pissed when these fucking clowns hit their draws. Some asshole picked up an open ended str8 draw
on the turn against me this morning, and threw his stack in (with nothing but the draw). I knew he was drawing and called him, of course he caught one of his 8 outs
on the river.
 

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So your telling me there's a chance, 1,000,000 to one. If you don't have the nuts then you can lose. I don't mind losing to donkey cause I WILL take his money next time.
 
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I was at a G.A.meeting in Scarsdale NY once and I guy was sharing. He said his kid was walking back and forth in front of the TV screen he was dealt a bad beat in hockey and threw his kid through the TV screen, ass----.
 

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