Overcoming the Bad Beats
Posted by DrunkBlonde | | Posted in: Rants & Raves | Comments (3)
I just went through a horrible series of tough losses and bad beats in my sit n go poker games. I played 12 games and lost every one of them even though I felt I was playing at the top of my game. The beer bottles stacked up fast as each loss stung even more than the last.
If I had two aces in the pocket and went all in preflop then some knuck with ace king offsuit would call me and hit a straight or a flush. In all of the games (except one where I misjudged my opponents hand) I had my money in the pot with the best hand but the other players always seemed to draw out on me. Out of 12 losses I made it to middle to late stage every time but managed to finish outside the money in all of them.
As my losses added up I was tempted to stray from my normal strategy but I didn’t. I decided to take a little break and play some cash games where I was able to recover most of my sit n go losses. Still, sit n go is my game so I made my way back and persisted, playing the strategy I believe works best.
I felt I just needed one win to turn the tide and it happened. In the 13th game I believe I was still playing the same game as I played in all the prior 12 games. This time I took third place. It wasn’t great, but it was in the money. In the next two games I took first place and so the string of bad beats ended just as quickly and unceremoniously as it had started.
I know, I know… as I’ve said before, “nobody gives a damn about your bad beats” and that isn’t really the message I’m trying to get across here. I’m saying that we need to avoid going on tilt and that can be easier said than done. We need to play the proper strategy even when we see loose players sucking out all around us. By playing a solid game, using proper strategy and avoiding going on tilt we can overcome the bad beats and strings of losses that invariably strike all poker players from time to time.
I hope my string of bad luck is over for a while now. I’m back to my normal percentage of winning about 60 to 70% of my sit n go games.
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I’ve heard old timers say that you just have to play through the bad streaks. There’s not much you can do about them except to as you say stick to your strategy.
I know what ya mean. Just came off an ugly with the worst beat of my life. in the middle of a 6 hour season and im up 600% playing 1/2 no limit on line.
Bank roll had taken a beating over the last 2 weeks with major suck outs, and a few mistakes of allowing my opponents decent pot odds to for some draws.
Sitting at the table, I get dealt KK, raise get re-raises pref lop and make the call. The guy was out of position, and playing very sloppy. Pot is now 100 on a 1/2 table and I flop Quad Kings. I make a pot sized raised and the guy comes over the top putting me all in. I call quickly and am excited to have the pot handed in my direction.
Turn A
River A
runner runner for Quad Aces beat my flop Quad Kings
I wanted to cry a little.
I don’t know, I can’t get rid of the feeling that there is something wrong with the software these Casinos running!
I know what you say, better take a look and your game, maby something is going wrong with it, and don’t cry and so on. But, my experience ist that when I’m new to a casino, and meanwhile I got six accounts on different sites, the cards are comming more to my favore? When I played a couple of games (weeks, month), it seems like it is getting less and less and other People pulling the cards they need to beat a hand that was better preflop or on the turn/river. Are they new to that pokerroom???
Look at it this way – just an assumption – There are more and more onlinecasinos who wants to anticipate on that billion dollar market. There is a huge competiion so wouldn’t it be smart (allthout illegal) to let new players win a couple, and then once in a while (regardless of Skill level) again to make them think “Hey, I can win here, I did it in the past and I can do it again – I stay here, I won’t go some else?
what you thing?