Definition of a Bad Beat

I'll tell you what it isn't.

If you go all in before the flop with a K 10, and your opponent has 7 7, and the flop comes K 10 3, and the turn comes 7 and river comes A, then it's not a bad beat.

Your chances of winning the hand is almost 50/50. Everything that happens inbetween is completely arbitrary.

Welcome to the forum. I agree it isn't a bad beat. But, not many of us would go all in with K 10.

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I'm starting to think the term is overused. I was in a low limit game today, and the guy to my right did just about the same thing. After it beat the guy to my left, the guy on my left just started going off on the other guy. I mean a pure tirade over $5.00. Ended up in a personal threat, that I think was reported. The guy did say one thing that was kinda funny, "you'd bet your liver, to see the river".

I do see ThreeD's point about a "beat beat" knocking you out of a tournament that you have a lot of time, and money invested in...but here we were talking $5.00...C'mon now!

Jim

When I first started out playing on PS I used the freeroll tourney's and play money. I know that trying to learn how to play with play money is terrible for someone to do in order to learn good poker. I did see a lot of people going off on people for supposed bad beats and getting threats just for nothing of value.

I think it is human nature for some Slope-headed goons to blow a fuse. They are idiots.

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