my li'l garden variety bad beat du jour :)

[BDMK]

this one just in, from the still ongoing 11/16, 7:30pm WPT PCA $3rebuy sat on stars...

towards the end of the second hour, 58 ppl remaining, my M is cca 15, im in early-to-MP preflop, limp in with AJo, 3 callers/limpers, all of them large-ish stacks (2 of them 'certified' wild fishies...)

board comes As-Js-Xs

pot size a little more than half my stack. this is now my chance to make it or break at this point in the tourney. the same guys have thus far raised at least 3-4x preflop with almost any aces, so the limping here tells me they should have no aces. of course, theres the freak made low/mid flush possibility already, but i gotta do what i gotta do, so i push allin, being second to act in the pot. plus of course i have two pair as is plus the remaining measly outs: 2 more aces and jacks apiece.

everyone folds, except for one of the larger (cca 2.5x my stack) stack limpers who goes into time bank and calls...with pocket red kings. lol

turn comes (drumroll, pls!) a king, of course. (needless to say, no help on river...)

58th out of 196. oh well...the (bad/unlucky) beat goes on.

i should post on this subforum regularly, so we can all have a good laugh at my bad/unlucky beat(s) du jour.

[Reel Deal]

Nothing worse than when someone gets rewarded for a horrible call.

[olysports]

I know, i hate when that happens. Its happened to me many times, and every time it happens, it hurts worse. But I guess there are just some really bad poker players out there who get rewarded for there dumb playing.

[BDMK]

hey, its ok, im used to it...i play about 4-5 tourneys a day or so. im a recreational player, and i play NLHE tourneys on stars only: buck SNGs, 50k buyin playmoney SNGs (i sell the playchips for cash which funds my sats bankroll), pvt events, and sats to large events.

i usually suffer anywhere from a dozen or so suckouts of that sort every 24 hrs. (these two outers, the usual 3-flush/inside straight chasers, the freak pair/2pair on turn/river, the overpair busted by underpair, the dominating hand busted by the dominated one, a disproportionately bad streak of lost coin tosses from both ends-made pairs and unpaired hi cards-like 0 for 7 in a row, etc etc etc)

e.g., yesterday i played 6 tourneys: this same WPT $3rebuy, two 50k buyin playmoney SNGs, and three buck SNGs. in the first five, i got bad/unlucky beat around every which way imaginable... only the last, sixth, tourney of the day, a buck SNG, i won 3rd, and 'only' got a tad unlucky at the very end, on the final two showdowns when it got 3-handed. first my 55 got busted by AK flopping two pair, then fiinally my KJ got busted by QT turning pair of Qs.

i still manage to cash/final table/win at least 1-2 of those 4-5 daily tourneys i play on average, so im cool.

i managed to bubble/almost bubble 2x last WPT bahamas, 5x last WSOP and so far 2x this year's WPT bahamas sats. etc etc...

id always rather be 'good' than lucky. (ive heard most of the fishies chant exactly the opposite as their favorite mantra, hehe)

or as raymer put it correctly once, good poker is about making good decisions. (and what cards get dealt we have no control over, so i dont worry about that)

ive known to run streaks of 12-15 'bad' run tourneys in a row in 2-3 days span straight. my personal record is 18 'bad' ones in 3 days straight in august. yes, it is statistically possible, and no, online poker is not rigged.(ive started playing poker dec 2004 and am keeping book on my play since apr 2005)

since again im a recreational player and only do this purely for fun, as a hobby and as a form of intellectual stimulation/challenge, im totally ok with everything. i love to compete and used to play chess tourneys too when i was a kid as well...

but i can see how some of you guys who play poker for money/income could go berserk about these things...

[Reel Deal]

Great attitude. I'm trying to see it in the same light!!

[olysports]

Same here. I wish I could have that kind of attitude all the time when I play poker, but since I just dont like losing at all, it is tough for me to have that kind of attitude all the time.

[JDMcNugent7]

as long as i play within my bankroll i have a good attitude, once i get over my head then i start getting frustrated and theres just another reason to play within ur BR.
BDMK- u seem to sure know ALOT about poker and seem to be a pretty skilled player based of ur posts to still be playing play money - i think theres some money out there with ur name all over it - try out the small limits at least- i think u'll really like it.