Bad beats are getting out of hand

twice today ive taken bad beat with ace ace against 77 in 2 different tournements and seriously its getting out of hand..i save the hands so i can go back.. the 2nd one i was like no way did he hit and yep lets do it again see how he like it..

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That’s nothing. The other day I was all-in 4 times in the same tournament, was head all 4 times and lost all 4. It’s also normal. That’s how poker works. Over the long term I will probably win 70% of those hands. I just happened to have bad luck to lose 4 in a row. It’s called variance. It’s important. We can’t win much money without variance because that bit of bad luck that we have is what keeps the bad players coming back to pay us over and over.

Bad players can’t win consistently without luck, and players won’t keep playing if they don’t win enough. If we want to keep getting paid by bad players, we have to lose a few suckouts and bad beats to them to keep them interested.

It’s frustrating when it happens but in the long run it’s good for us.

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How do you go all in, lose, and remain in tournament?

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He was all in against players with a shorter stack than him Angelina…
Talking of bad beats I went all in recently with AQ and somebody with 9 4 called me for some reason…they weren’t even a big stack it was for all their chips as it was for mine…
Board came 9 9 4 4 4…amazing

All in means YOU are all in.

Calling a player’s all in who has a shorter stack is just calling HIS all in.

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I had a stack of magic chips, ok? (pfft, eyeroll)

Rawrrrrrrrrr! Cat fight!

You can go all-in and get called by a shorter stack. It’s also pretty clear the point of the story is that napkin had hands strong enough to be all-in with, whether or not her entire stack actually ended up being at risk.

You’re not all in if you have a stack in front of you.

You can click the all in button, but if you’re not called for it, all then you are not all in.

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So when you put your chips into the middle you say “I’ll be all-in if someone who covers me calls, otherwise I’m not” or you just say “I’m all-in”?

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It doesn’t matter what you SAY, you can say " If you’re the mounted police show me your badges" if you want.

If you got a stack of chips in front of you then you are NOT all in.

I know what you are doing, putting out a smoke screen for the rookie.

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♫ bad beats bad beats. watcha gonna do? watcha gonna do when they come for you? bad beats bad beats ♫

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LOL, I love it !!!

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They whacked some of my posts, don’t know why, they were only humorous ones. I guess people just don’t get my humor. They don’t really give you a place to question why. The ones I thought might get whacked didn’t. Very strange.

bad beats bad beats. watcha gonna do?

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I was just gonna write to you. We stepped on somebody’s VERY sensitive toes! My posts were obliterated as well.

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I don’t think this is considered being all-in when it’s against a shorter stack.

True, you may have been first to act but I wouldn’t consider it being an all-in unless you risk your entire stack. After all that’s what the phrase means!

I hate bad beats, happened to me once, just don’t like them, they should be banned!

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“being” all-in and “going” all-in can be different, sure. It’s still common for people to use all-in for both, and really the only time you use it that really matters is when you are going all-in

Oh, it’s you, the trouble maker. My pristine record on here now has a giant smudge on it. You bad !!!

:slight_smile: :joy::slight_smile: :rofl:

I really don’t know what I said, the posts they removed were harmless.

They usually are because someone always misinterprets them out of context. And then the vulgar ones seem to be left alone.

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