[AncientPC]

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It seems as if every time I venture to a B&M casino, I have to hear at least 3 or 4 bad beat whines from people who have apparently forgotten that short-term luck affects everyone, not just bad players.

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I think it's worse sometimes in a B&M casino because you can actually see the other person who delivered the bad beat. This phenomenon seems to put people on tilt even more, when the person is close enough that you can reach out and wrap your hands around their throat.

Personally, online it doesn't bug me as much as live play sometimes. For example, and I mentioned this in another post, there was a hand over the weekend where I picked up TT on the button. Couple of limpers, I raise, SB folds, BB, who just moved to that seat because the last one he was sitting at didn't get any cards, calls, limpers call. Flop of say 983 rainbow. Checked to me, I bet, BB and MP call. Turn is a 5. Checked to me, I bet again, BB calls, MP fold. River is a 2. Now BB bets out. I stew for a second, trying to figure out what he rivered, and only think it could maybe be A4, or maybe just top pair he thought was good. I call and he says "two pair".....turning over 32o. I turbo-muck, and to add insult to injury, a player not in the hand asks to see my cards, which weren't quite far enough into the muck because the dealer pulled them out to show the guy.

Anyway, yes, this was an excuse to tell a bad beat story. But I just think B&M bad beats are harder to handle when you're face to face with the person afterwards. In this case the idiot in the hand, an older guy who was wearing ridiculous looking aviator sunglasses, rationalized his play by telling me he had a feeling on the hand because of the seat change.

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I agree that live suck outs are worse than online suckouts. For one, it makes the fish real and tangible. Secondly, you can't shrug it off and play another 400 hands across 4 tables but have to wait it out.