been playing long?
this is 5 different tourneys...how will you react if it all happened in one ringgame session?
understand where you were the favorite, and where you werent. also, stay away from entitlement thoughts. the pot isnt yours til they shove you the chips. but after enough beats, it wont suprise you what beats you at times. you'll have seen it before...
lets take a look..
"5) $30 PL Holdem, App. 145 entrants, I finish in 2'nd place.Heads up I get AKo and raise it the pot. He calls (we are almost dead even with him ahead slightly) and flop comes KJx I bet the pot and he raises I rearaise and he calls, turn is x (no flush possible) I bet pot (allin) he calls and turns over J2 and 2 hits on river. OK not that bad."
your ahead, but if this is HU, he'd likely call you all the way with mid pair...he just caught. you must like him calling for 5 outs though...
"4)$50 NL To make a long story short I make nut flush on turn and get rivered by str8 flush (first hand at final table)I'm out. I had 3'rd biggest stack-2'nd biggest put me out."
would you rather have him hit his card on the turn? the fact he has a flush also, usually means he'll see you at the river. tough break though....
"3) $30 NL Down to 17 players, playing 8 handed. I get AdQc in middle position. Folded to me, I raise app pot size. 1 caller (button). flop comes Qx4c5c. I bet all-in and button calls (he has me covered slightly). He turns over AcQd. Needless to say he catches running clubs and I'm gone."
nothing really bad about this. he was slightly ahead from the flop on....
"2) $30 NL Down to 20 or so players. In SB I get AA with slightly less than average stack, raised to me and I go all-in. BB calls for slightly 5 times more than his original Blind. Raiser folds,????. flop comes K72 and his 72 suited takes me out."
this can be aggravating. a perfect flop. gotta love these. its a perfect flop for him. i find these types of flops a little too convenient online. like when the flop hits 3 or 4 out of the 3 or 4 seeing the flop. seems to happen a little too often. however, raiser folded probably because someone called your allin. thus he may move up a level. im guessing he didnt raise alot, but enough......you had the best of it preflop, you cant complain about the 72 calling can you? i mean, ya gotta love that. sucks that he caught it though. was he one of the chipleaders on your table? anyway, just realize that if he never catches this play, he'd never play that bad. it's gotta hit sometime for him. it just happened on this occasion.
"1) $30 PL down to about 30 players from original 90 or so. I get 99 in middle position. Folded to me and I raise pot size. Button only caller. By the way I have 6'th biggest stack. Flop comes Q96 rainbow. I bet the pot, button raises back the pot and I reraise all-in and he has me covered. He turns over 1010. I figure if he hits 10 then oh well! turn is 8 and river is 7 for str8 and I'm out again. I was stunned"
TT usually beats 99...its a huge favorite. and this is one way it beats it. but would you be any more stunned if he had QQ or JTs? but im thinking he also was one of the chipleaders on this table.
id say look at the possibilities of the players hands, not just the results of the hand. what 'could' he have had that wouldve still beat you. understand that these beats and 'worse' beats are part of the game. and yes...they SUCK. but you want them to occur at times. a great line in a CP article was 'if your on a table showing many bad beats, your on a beatable table.' just remember, you get to pay some bad beat dues for the profit to be made on such tables. and the profit may not show up that session, but in a different session with other, just as bad, players. sometimes ya gotta 'chum' the waters.
like i've been doing the past couple sessions [img]/forums/images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
but it does get old. if it's really bothering you, take a break. let the emotions and the timid, 'scared', feelings dissipate. then come back with a clearer mind. all the while, with the experience of 'surviving' some bad beats. it shouldnt suprise you when they happen again, since you will have seen them before...
or just a change of venue can be enough to recharge you game. the feng shui may help....
just some ideas...
hang in there...
b
many times a chipleader will play a little looser against a smaller stack to try and take them out. not always though.
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