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[Awful]

Who here has had one of these? Not a bad beat per se, but today if I flop the best hand, it gets counterfeited, drawn out on (though their odds were OK, they are supposed to miss once in a while) or ends up second best with someone else nailing a monster that you still pay off. Oh, and I miss every flush and OESD, too.Ugh. Not fun. I'm sure I'll see those chips again though.

[UglyJimStudly]

On Superbowl Sunday, I played at a table with a ton of loose-passive book players: they'd see every flop, call to the river if they have any piece of it, raise as soon as they hit top pair or better. For the first hour, it was like everybody else was playing with their cards faceup, I doubled my buy-in and could do no wrong.Then suddenly, they all started hitting big hands on the river, and I stopped hitting anything at all. I still knew exactly what people had when they were chasing and I knew exactly when they hit it, all that changed was that they seemed to hit it every time and so I was beat every time. By the end of the (football) game I had lost my winnings and part of my buy-in, just by playing solid hands that never quite made it. It was a weird run. Such is poker.

[Awful]

Day 2 of "Man, poker sucks"I may still be unlucky, like running a QQ overpair into a KK overpair, hitting my AK on an A-9-4 flop and getting shown trip 9's, some painful payoffs with hitting an overcard when someone BB specialed a straight on the flop and played it soft, other idiocy with second-best hands, like losing due to kicker trouble induced by someone who doesn't raise AK out of the blinds, etc.. I'm overplaying a lot when I hit something because of draw-out fears and hoping my luck is on the upswing. This definitely means I'm playing bad too, not just running bad, though. Time to kick back, read, play video games, go for a long run, get my head straight, get my A-game back and go track down those chips I've been dropping all over. Again, not bad beats per se, but I didn't want to subject too many people to my whining, rants and hopefully non-idle threats to play better.

[poguemahone68]

I hear ya awful...I've just finished day 3 of "poker is hard, cruel and just plain wrong".I've been playing on party for a year now and it's been extremely lucrative, as I'm sure most of you will agree. Lots o' guppies!But there are certainly those days and even runs of days where the idiots hit their miracle draws and you always miss yours. Even when you price them out and they price you in. Most of them don't understand the odds at all. You can bet the size of the pot holding top 2 pair against one other player on the turn all day long and he'll still call you hoping to make his flush or worse, his inside str8 draw.This is definitely profitable when you're playing cash games, but it can be a nightmare when you're playing tournies. Most of us here at FCP know that pushing those edges will put us in the black when we tally up our spreadsheets or however we track our wins/losses at the end of the year, but the tourney life is much shorter, especially NL. When you're out, you're out and when you're low, you have to play the, "wait for a premium and go all-in" game, which is not the game I like to play. If I did, then I would go play slots or roulette. I like to see flops and outplay my opponents, which is very hard to do when shortstacked.Anyway, I could talk about a lot of bad beats and curse the lames that put em' on me, but some of the time, in my case anyway, they weren't bad beats. It was me making incorrect decisions. It's hard to admit sometimes, but it can be true. Those are the ones I really need to concentrate on and study. If I take a bad beat, but played it really well or the best I could have with all the information I had at the time, then I don't need to focus on that at all, I just need to move on. If I took a beat due to my own bad decision, then that's when I need to check it out and address it.The last hand I played tonight went like this...3 table sng 20 ppl left, I have 1200 in chips, blinds are 25 / 50I'm on the button with 77, 3 players limp before me and I just call and SB completes and BB sees the flop, which is 746 rainbow. SB bets 50 and BB raises to 100, 3 limpers all fold and I make it 400, SB calls all-in with his 250 remaining chips and BB re-raises to 800. I go all-in and BB has me covered by a benjamin and calls. SB has 52 and BB of course has 53. The board didn't pair and I was out in 19th place.Obviously this wasn't a bad beat, I played it wrong twice, pre and post flop. Should have raised preflop and I would have taken that pot down at any point from there. All I can say is it was the end of a 3 day bad run and I wasn't playing correctly. Right before that I got knocked out 121st in an 1800 person tourney and was still a little bummed for pissing away a huge stack in that one.I guess to sum up this ridiculously long post, I have to focus on my mistakes and correct them and not worry about the bad beats. I'm going to correct my most recent bad plays by taking a break and take care of some other things in my life, like EVERYTHING! lolI'd also like to thank all the posters here who have helped my game. This is a great site and I plan on contributing when I can.-Pogue