Bad-beats are good for you!

GaryQQQ

Nice work mate. That is my philosophy on the matter too. I hope your new perspective will help you to improve even further. I'll look forward to seeing your Sharkscope going up in the near future.

GaryQQQ

I've decided to take a new perspective on bad beats, a new perspective that makes them much easier to tolerate.

Although being the victim of a suck-out is undoubtedly painful, I've come round to understanding that bad beats are actually an essential ingredient in poker. I've realised their effect is to keep the weaker players at the tables and ensure that poker stays profitable for the more skilled players. 

If you're a winning player bad beats are good for you! 

Why? Well imagine what it would be like if the best cards always held up. The weaker players would stand almost no chance. Each time they made a deposit they'd quickly lose all their money. It wouldn't take long before they gave up, threw in the towel and never bothered to come back again. Only the stronger players would remain and it would be very difficult for anybody to beat the rake.

Bad beats have the effect of giving everybody a chance, no matter how good or bad they may be. Even the weakest player is likely to get lucky every now and then, go on a some sort of heater, win themselves a load money and go away thinking they're a poker genius. The buzz you get when you win money is addictive, that lousy player who luck-boxes their way to a profit will enjoy it, and be keen to do it again, they will find it much easier to justify their next deposit when all the money has been lost back.

If it feels like you always take bad beats but you almost never dish them out it doesn't mean you're unlucky, it actually means you're a good player. You must be getting your money in good nearly all the time. Weaker players might appear to get lucky far more often than you, but that's only because they keep getting it in bad. When you repeatedly get it in bad you'll hit your miracle cards quite often. When you're the one getting it in ahead you have no miracle card to hit, but your opponent certainly does.

I've often grumbled on this forum and elsewhere about bad beats, but you're less likely to see me doing so in the future. I've been fortunate enough to make a decent profit playing poker. Yes, I suffer my share of bad beats just like everybody else, but I've decided that I must embrace them. Those suck-outs are going to make ensure my weaker opponents keep coming back, and I will continue to have the opportunity to keep winning their money. Each bad beat is a short term loss that helps you maintain a long term profit.

Poker_Fail

My reasoning behind rarely moaning about bad beats is that, getting outdrawn shows that you went into the pot as the favourite to win, aka profitable play.

So in that sense, they really are good for you.

EDIT: posted that before reading all of your paragraphs lol

IDONKCALLU

heads up sesssion later poker fail ?

Lambert180

Yeah and one thing I always think is that badbeats and variance will level out over a long enough period so the more you go through them periods of getting badbeats, the more you're gonna be due a period of when you just smack every flop in the face.

67Bhoys

Can't argue with your logic Gary, but I reckon I will still swear under my breath when it happens. 

FlyingDagg

More or less agree with whats been said and if the best hand always won it would be the most tedious game imaginable

Lambert180

Hey it's been ages since I've seen you around Dagg... you been away for a while?

wynne1938

In Response to Bad-beats are good for you!:

I've decided to take a new perspective on bad beats, a new perspective that makes them much easier to tolerate. Although being the victim of a suck-out is undoubtedly painful, I've come round to understanding that bad beats are actually an essential ingredient in poker. I've realised their effect is to keep the weaker players at the tables and ensure that poker stays profitable for the more skilled players.  If you're a winning player bad beats are good for you!  Why? Well imagine what it would be like if the best cards always held up. The weaker players would stand almost no chance. Each time they made a deposit they'd quickly lose all their money. It wouldn't take long before they gave up, threw in the towel and never bothered to come back again. Only the stronger players would remain and it would be very difficult for anybody to beat the rake. Bad beats have the effect of giving everybody a chance, no matter how good or bad they may be. Even the weakest player is likely to get lucky every now and then, go on a some sort of heater, win themselves a load money and go away thinking they're a poker genius. The buzz you get when you win money is addictive, that lousy player who luck-boxes their way to a profit will enjoy it, and be keen to do it again, they will find it much easier to justify their next deposit when all the money has been lost back. If it feels like you always take bad beats but you almost never dish them out it doesn't mean you're unlucky, it actually means you're a good player. You must be getting your money in good nearly all the time. Weaker players might appear to get lucky far more often than you, but that's only because they keep getting it in bad. When you repeatedly get it in bad you'll hit your miracle cards quite often. When you're the one getting it in ahead you have no miracle card to hit, but your opponent certainly does. I've often grumbled on this forum and elsewhere about bad beats, but you're less likely to see me doing so in the future. I've been fortunate enough to make a decent profit playing poker. Yes, I suffer my share of bad beats just like everybody else, but I've decided that I must embrace them. Those suck-outs are going to make ensure my weaker opponents keep coming back, and I will continue to have the opportunity to keep winning their money. Each bad beat is a short term loss that helps you maintain a long term profit.
Posted by GaryQQQ

Like your thoughts, nice blogg!