please explain how people handle mutliple bad beats

[meanjean]

I've just had several bad beats happen and want to scream...are there techniques people use to handle these things...I'm sorry but after my aces get thumped by 62 and my queens get hit my j6...I'm heading towards tilt...how do you deal with these things

[BonJoviJones]

The best advice I have: Deal with it. Accept it. You got your money in with the best of it, and that's all you can do.

Variance is a bitch. No one will ever say anything different. If you have a problem with variance I have one suggestion: Casino Whoring. Check the Zoo, they have a thread on a great job. Playing blackjack really shows you wacky-ass variance, much more than Poker.

*Shrug* Blackjack helped me get over this stuff, and provided some good bankroll to start.

But don't tilt while playing blackjack.

[SCfuji]

i only get pissed when i make mistakes. its irritating to lose multiple times, but as long as you play the same way the money will come back to you. whether the money is from that person or another it does not matter. when bad players win they return it back into 'circulation' on party poker unless they decide to never play again.

[TheHip41]

Listen to "Nugget" by Cake [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[fervent]

Listening to Cake is good advice under any circumstances.

[Harv72b]

That's exactly it. I try to just laugh to myself, give the guy a "nh" in the room chat, and get back to my game knowing that the player who just beat me with 25o is going to give me a lot more money than I just lost over the long run.

It is hard sometimes, and if you find yourself tilting, the best thing I can recommend is to just stop the session immediately. Or if you must keep playing, enter a cheap sit & go; you get that nice, big stack to start off with, your solid play will likely lead to that stack growing, and best of all, even if the bad luck keeps trumping your good decisions, you'll lose a lot less money for your time.

[Ritter]

Casino's don't get upset when a player hits their number on roulette or makes their pass line at craps - they smile and say "congratulations!"

(Paraphrase - Ed Miller SSHE)

[siccjay]

It's hard, I don't know if I'll ever be able to take the beats.

I just lost KK flopped a set to J4 s00ted and AK flopped an A to 82 s00ted. SAME DAMN FISH!!!!!!! Thats what makes me the maddest, it always seems like the same guy who everyone else is killing sucks out on me and then spreads my money around the table.

I used to kill the micro games when I first started playing and now after reading the boards so much and reading SSHE I feel like such a better player but I can't get out of the downswing. All you can do is vent (like I did in this post) and remember its all one big session.

[young nut]

variance is certainly a biatch. I was catching monster hands 3 tabling yesterday. I'm talking AA KK and AK over 20 times in a 2 hour session (not a piece of course). But my KK kept getting cracked. I had one Kk hold up out of 4. My aces only won 2 out of 5. And my AK's missed the flop and turn almost every time. Just gotta chalk it up to variance though. I just simply stopped. Came back today and made up almost all of my downswing in 2 hours. Variance is certainly a biatch, but as long as you are playing smart game, eventually payoffs will come.

[umaga]

"SAME DAMN FISH!!!!!!! Thats what makes me the maddest, it always seems like the same guy who everyone else is killing sucks out on me and then spreads my money around the table."

1) If you truly played the hand optimally, the "SAME DAMN FISH", didn't beat you - the cards did.
2) If you didn't play optimally - learn.
3) The statements I quoted above should tell you that you are getting your ego involved in situations it doesn't belong.
4) Don't think of opponents as "Fish", all players are a bundle of playing characteristics that have to be factored in to your play. Name calling, even if internal, doesn't help this process. It merely strokes your ego (bruised).