What Percentage Do You Lose From Bad Beats?

[RPatterson]

Have any of you kept stats on what percentage of tournaments you lose from an ugly drawout occuring?

[AleoMagus]

I actually started doing this at one point but stopped.

The thing is, at the lower limits, MOST of your losses will come from either ugly suckouts or miracle flops for your opponents trash hands.

Better players should experience more bad beats. If you didn't find that you were getting drawn out on a lot, then you might be against players better than yourself.

That said, it became a negative thing to maintain a list like that and I stopped doing it. The last thing you need is to start obsessing about what miracle two pair your opponent MUST have hit everytime he raises your overpair on the flop.

Regards
Brad S

[Jason Strasser]

Suckouts are facts of life in a sng. I would estimate that about 40-60% of my losses are of that variety. The rest is either me running into a better hand, or losing coinflip type hands (K6 vs A5) on the bubble with a short stack.