Generally I'll just stop
ying after the first bad beat if it's
ted me that much. T
look back over the hand and check that it's a genuine bad beat and I got my money in good...
I think
ning slow and sometimes
ing fast is why it's
led grinding.
If I s
l have the urge to
y (typi
ly after I walk away for ten mintues) I change tables. I find myself seeking "r
nge" on the person who gave me the bad beat and t
I
rt leaking like crazy and making bad decisions
of spike.
M
si
tions are clear cut, but I Think a lot of times there's a l
l of mis-
y where you may have paid off a bad
l making it "
" a bad beat.
The biggest reason that Bad Be
are so expensive? Because they effect you long after t
had has passed.
Also. W
you only have 100bb in front of you,
ting
cked
h top pair top kicker is a lot more acceptable than w
you have 350bb in front of you. Getting
cked like that is a HUGE no no.
Rarely w
we
our monies in, are we a 100% (or
n a 90%) favorite to
. T
provides our oppon
s
h many opportunities to suck
on us.
It also accounts for 95% of poker-related m
al-illnesses.
The more you grind, the more bad be
you see, and the less they sting w
you
them. They are simply an inevitable part of t
game that you've just got to accept. Some days you'll see more than your fair share, and some days you'll see less. Try
to go crazy on the former, and try
to
cocky on the latter.
The bad be
c
you money, but
the hand itself. Over the long run you s
ld
c
er and c
er to what your expected value was over all hands that you
yed. For example you really want your oppon
to make -EV
ls
h draws, or
l you preflop
h weaker hands (same concept)... that's wh
making you money.
Maybe visualizing your equity helps. If you
it in as a 70/30 favourite - only 70% of the pot is yours. 30% belongs to your oppon
.
I agree how
r that it's s
l hard to deal
h over the short term. I t
ght I was pretty bad beat resist
, and I can go on 5 buy-in downs
gs and more or less shrugg it off, but t
month I'm running 50% under my expectation over 30k hands for �1000, and that's s
l hard to stomach. I won't
that money back, but at least I know that over the course of the next 100k hands it won't matter.
A big part of the psychology of it is that you got emotionally attached to the pot, but the pot is
yours if you don't have the
ning hand on the river. I made it a ri
l to click reload at alm
ry all-in si
tion, just to prepare for loosing the pot. The be
that
t the m
are w
you fully expected that the pot was yours.
LOSING IS A PART OF THE GAME! Sorry to be so blunt but Somebody has to
, somebody has to
e. Pro's also
e hands so obviously, anybody can and do! WIth
the ac
l hand t
gh, we have to take your word that it was ac
lly a BAD BEAT and
a hand you got married to...
death (BB) do you part!
The question isn't why are bad be
so c
ly to one's bankroll because if they were c
ly to one's bankroll, t
one wouldn't be rolled properly for the
kes.
The question is, why does one or two bad be
destroy 2/3 of the income that took two
rs to grind up? It's so frustrating w
you spend two
rs in tedium grinding away at 6 tables, taking down small pots,
ting c
er and c
er to the nearest benchmark, only to have alm
all of that work done for
hing because some lucky idiot hit a full
se
h 69o w
you hit your flush.
Stop looking at poker in terms of sessions and whether good luck or bad be
define them. Start looking at the big picture and be more results ori
ed in the long-term. And if you got your money in good and some fish made a horrible
l and sucked
on the river, so be it because you'll want him to make that same horrible
l over and over again.
If I feel prone to
ting and
ting emotionally attached in a given si
tion I make a point to think over my decision once more, put all the money in, reload and look at a differ
table as the hand
ys
and t
try to for
ab
it.
In t
, I am giving up the edge that the additional information (what he ac
lly
yed t
way) can give me in future hands (t
gh I can of course always check the hand
tory), but I am pr
nting
t, which allows me to
y better for longer.
The si
tions that are m
likely to cause
t are m
ly self created. Basi
ly what you do is you envision one result as the one you are going for (you
ning, typi
ly), you
emotionally attached to that
come and
n if you might intellec
lly accept that other
comes are possible, you do
prepare yourself emotionally for those other possible
comes. So w
they occur they s
l manage to shock you and that
rts the whole rollercoaster of
t.
I beli
the trick is to learn to be intellec
lly and emotionally prepared for any of the remaining 47 or 46 cards to come
h
rything that
ails, and to under
nd how that effects your equity before it suddenly comes around and slaps you in the face
h the
s of a
ck. I think a great way to build t
resiliency is to analyse hands and si
tions to a point where you more intuitively under
nd how equity changes depending on what cards come. T
s
ld remove some of the surprise elem
and allow you to assess dispassionately whether your action was +EV in the first
ce and
bogged down in whether or
the
come in t
particular hand gained or c
you money.
As some of the more experienced people in t
thread also said - if you under
nd your equity against your oppon
s range on a given street
culate
h
ning your 70% and
ing the oppon
s 30% in your head and in your emotions, ignoring the ac
l
come of the hand - t
s
ld help
tproof you. You do need to
y mind-games
h yourself and practice t
particular perspective and technique for it to be effective, but it's a pretty important thing to do as
ying on
t will c
you lots more money than you can earn by
ying well.
Bad be
are c
ly- suck
s are profitable.
Become better at suck
s and avoid bad be
. You need to really push hands like backdoor flushes, gutshots and underpairs/ undercards hard in order to become the Suck
King. Follo
g the same line of reasoning you s
ld fold w
r you know you are in front.
On a more serious
e, maybe you are
pushing your edges hard enough? If you only push 70/30 si
tions and folding 55/45 si
tions your good hands need to hold up often to su
in a profitable
rate.
Couple of t
ghts:
- You grind and grind un
you
e a big pot- t
quit.
- Losing feels worse than
ning feels good.
- Suck
s are common for fish and sharks,
for TAG fish
- Everything is possible in poker. Sometimes you can
e
n how hard you try.
