Re: What is a bad beat, really?
A bad beat is anytime you lose a hand [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. To me the bad beat really amounts to a series of mistakes your opponent makes and then gets rewarded for it. As in, cold calling 3 bets with a 34o. Flop comes AJ5r, calling all bets on the flop, hitting a 6 on the turn, calling all again, hitting the 7 on the river and taking the pot away from the set of JJ's and AA's. It is not so much that it is a 'bad beat' as to what it does to my temperment if I am holding the Aces. It can send you on tilt very easily and that is what is truly a bad beat, anything that can set you on tilt, even for a little while. It is easy to tell yourself that the guy is a loser but it doesn't help matters when you are handing your 12BBs over to the moron. If you can get your zen past that, then there are no more bad beats.
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