irishpint
05-25-2005, 04:27 PM
most of you know this, but it seems to be a common theme here in the micro-limit forum: bad beats happen. what many people seem to forget is they work both ways and you need to realize this when they happen in your favor. for example, a few days ago i made a post where i had AA up against KK. He hit his K on the flop for the set. I was screwed. Since I didnt know this we capped the flop and i called his raise on the turn. I'm not going to fold Aces to the possibility of a set, however. The river card was a beautiful Ace and I won a large pot AAA vs KKK. I played it fine, but didnt do anything special to win the pot. He couldn't have done anything to make me fold. C/R my mother, 8-betting the turn, holding me at gunpoint, knifing me (well maybe knifing me) nothing was going to get me to fold my aces. I got lucky. It was a bad beat. Do I feel sorry for him? Not really, it's poker, it happens. But next time when I lose a pot I was way ahead/was sure I was going to win/didn't see how I could lose I can draw on this experience. For everytime someone goes runner-runner on you, you'll hold the Ace on a 4 flush board and ruin their straight. This game doesn't single out certain people and screw them over, as some here seem to suggest.
I dunno this post might be stupid, but often times THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT BAD BEATS! (short of blowing the dealer, if it's a big pot)
I dunno this post might be stupid, but often times THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT BAD BEATS! (short of blowing the dealer, if it's a big pot)