Well it happens yet again. I'm getting frustrated not with the bad beats in poker on a per beat basis but rather as a whole. I'm about to just come right out and say what is probably the most rediculously stupid and overreactionary thing in poker, but I feel like the unluckiest man alive. I keep getting my money in with the best of it and getting nailed. Cash games, tournies, wherever. God just give me a chance to make a semi-big time final table. ARRRRGH. For instance - ten minutes ago tourney -
Hero is UTG+1 with AKclubs villain in MP w JJ. Blinds 25/50. I raise it to 150, villain reraises to 500, I call, leaving me about 1000 behind. Flop - KQ10, two hearts. I check, as the player is aggresive and I expect a bet here. Villain obliges and I call the covering raise. We flip em over. Turn comes K, and river, what else but a 9.

I guess you could say push pre, but I knew a call was coming, bet the flop, and yeah maybe he lays down there but being almost a 4-1 favorite I figure getting all the money in there is the right move.

ALWAYS HAPPENS.

6 outer?

no, not a bad beat

and you shoulda pushed the flop after he raised

I agree with Eddie. Not a bad beat as you were behind pre-flop.

Push on the flop.

Whenever I get hit with some bad beats and suckouts I remember the hands that I was the one getting the lucky cards.

This is one I remind myself of whenever someone gets lucky against me. I had AA and raised pre-flop, 3 callers. Flop was J J x, flop ended up being capped. I should have folded on the turn but pots odds and an occassional stubborn streak made me stay. To cut a long story short, I hit my 2 outer to fill up on the river and beat his flopped boat.

What goes around comes around, just my 2c.

Six

TPTK beaten with straight and flush draws on the board. Who'd 've imagined?

I was gonna craft a lengthy response to all this but I guess all I'll say is... thank you... I guess.

Talk to me when you get constantly beat by 2-3 outers when it matters most. I hate variance, but then again variance means it changes good or bad while mine just stays bad.

Oh no I understand. It's just for me any tourney matters most -- I'm doing what I can to try and get myself into some of the big boy tourneys, or at least up in limits. So I guess my AA to AKo preflop all in to a turned diamond flush qualifies here? Oy. God, I want variance to switch on over too. Never seems to go the other way, at least I know for certain that it's never gone THAT good for me.

Blech.. I know that I have a relatively small sample size but still when trying to move up the MTT ladder, it kinda sucks to get hit with this BS all at the beginning.

Yeah. End Vent/Rant.

KK vs KK

We get all our money in. Buddy hits a flush to win. That's a bad beat, even if he had lots of outs due to a flushy flop. Brother, it'll happen again and again. Ride it out, stay patient and keep betting "correctly". If you have proper BR skillz, you'll find your way out of that hole.

While back, I had this happen with AA vs AA on the bubble of a $50 MTT buyin tourney. From big stack (and peeking at a multiK prize) to around two blinds in 15 seconds with what looks like a push hand preflop.

Trust, me, you get a sick feeling when you see three spades flop and hit his As. You know you are dead, dead, dead.

I FEEL YOUR PAIN.