How to Handle Poker Bad Beats

How do you handle bad beats when playing online poker? Do you go on tilt and give away your stack? Or are you a player that realizes bad beats happen? The good online poker players keep themselves from losing everything after a bad beat while the bad players do not. The definition of a “bad beat” in poker is when a player has a strong poker hand that ends up getting outdrawn. In today’s Texas Holdem poker where it seems everyone plays everything, bad beats are more common than ever before. You must learn how to handle bad beats if you want to be a long-term winner when playing online poker. :dirol

Well said. The bad beat is part of the game, if you can't overcome adversity, you can't win.

[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]It's one of those things I still need to work on at times, but I'm getting better at it. I don't have any problem accepting the luck of the draw when a good player has played the hand straight up and it just doesn't go my way. As Doyle's says, "That's poker, folks". But, play like a donkey bingo player and beat me with garbage in a hand that made no sense for you to either be in to begin with or continue in and that can still get my goat bleating. . .[/FONT]

The problem is a lot of these players don't just call with a draw, they push, so you are left with the decision to fold the best hand or risk getting knocked out or SS'ed. That's what drives me crazy. I understand if you have a draw, in a tournament you have to take some chances, and if it hits, I have no problem folding and moving forward. I just hate getting knocked out be a draw that pushed allin.

The problem is a lot of these players don't just call with a draw, they push, so you are left with the decision to fold the best hand or risk getting knocked out or SS'ed. That's what drives me crazy. I understand if you have a draw, in a tournament you have to take some chances, and if it hits, I have no problem folding and moving forward. I just hate getting knocked out be a draw that pushed allin.
[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]Happened to me exactly like that two weeks ago in the ixgames Carbon game. Within the first level. 2nd hand maybe. I didn't lay down and was done when the flush draw hit. . .

What really irked me about it was that the player who jammed on their draw later uttered those infamous words: "Besides, it's a freeroll". . . *sigh* Never thought I'd hear it from an ixgame-er. . .[/FONT]

It definatly does feel like there are more bad beats online than in real life. Some times you just need to tell yourself your not going to play the next few hands to calm yourself down. Patience is so important for online poker.

What I do as a rule is regardless of what I'm dealt the next 2 or three hands I fold, sit and take some deep breaths, calm down and then resume play. Keep in mind the cards have no memory and tilt reflex will turn you into a railbird more times than not

When i lose to a bad beat i dont gt mad or anything i just look at it like its i played my cards right im not gonna get all frustrated about it and remember its poker these things DO happen

Well folks it happens. Yes somtimes when I first started after a bad beat so called I don't know why, it's just a loosing hand. good beat bad beat they are the same. But I would go all in after loosing to a bad beat only to be beat even worse by getting ko. Now I fold after such a hand, ofourse unless I have a realy stong hand then I will go all in or a strong raise. You might be surprised how many players will jump in. And replenish you stack. Freerollbird