the beats go on...and on...and on... lol

[BDMK]

this just in in the past 3 hrs, not even..all tourneys buck 45-player SNGs on stars, one of my favorites...

i dont even feel like giving out the elaborate setup/desc of the background or anything, the following just speaks for itself...here goes, 3 in a row...

1) tourney #1: 99 busted by 88

2) tourney #2: a) AK (with another AK in the pot) busted by 53o
b) AJ busted by QJ

3) tourney #3: QQ busted by 88

and i dont even feel like going back to the 4 tourneys i lost in a row in a very similar fashion earlier in the morning...getting just this off my chest for now is enough therapy for the moment...

ugh...i cant imagine how some ppl can rely on this for income/money...

[jaeh00d]

you consider those bad beats?

I would say those instances are more like the luck of the draw. i would not classify that as a bad beat. What happened to me the other night was a bad beat. I flopped quad 4's and my opponent flopped 5's full, the river brought another 5 to make his quads. Now that i would consider a bad beat.

I dont think if you get your aces cracked by kings its a bad beat. People sometimes are so quick to blame losing a hand a badbeat when its just the way the cards fall. I think sometimes its more on the level of kicking the ass of the guy that calls your all in with AA with a 5 3 and beats you. Mathematically it is very possible and it will happen periodically.

Here is another situation in which i consider a very very bad beat. I was playing a 3 table tourney here at the casino here in miami. I was at the final table with about 5 people left. 1st position goes all in ( he was a big short stack about 300 units more than the big blind ) i look down and have KK, so i obviously think for that split second if he has aces. I'm positive he doesnt so i then call, he ended up having 33. The flop comes 8 10 K, giving me trips and him far far behind. At that point its about 98% to 2%. The turn comes a three, big deal huh? The river comes a 3, giving him quads.

Now that is what you can consider a huge bad beat.

[BDMK]

i think u missed my point.

i wasnt saying that any of the individual instances i mentioned above, by itself, is a most horrible bad beat.

but in a row, to lose batches of 4-1/3-1 dominated showdowns, in other words cumulatively, in a row, back-to-back-to..etc, that is a bad, bad run.

simple stats...

[Ando05]

i would have to agree on that, when you just keep losing like that, it gets on you nerves. but you should be glad that only a dollar was on the line. if there was more than a 100 bucks on the line, i would consider it a bad beat.

but its just seems impossible to lose that many in a row. either poker isnt your game, or you just have to get used to it. i bet the pros did.

[jaeh00d]

No when you put it like that now i agree with you, you couldnt be further from the truth. i just didnt understand everything i guess, my fault