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Bad beat, no tilt, progress made!

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April 19, 2014 - 6:51 pm

Hey all, my first post here (I think lol) and NOT a bad beat story!

Okay, playing in a 40 man today on 888 and foudn AQs on the button, raised, got 40BB shoved on me by a guy who was playing like a maniac so I called. He hits a full house on the flop with 47o.

Now this is the point where I normally go beserk! But I didn't. I was about to but then something in my head just “clicked” and instead of going on full tilt I reved up to 30% and it suddenly dissipated. Before the turn. When the guy hit a better full house on the river I was chuckling to myself! I settled back in my seat and started trying to figure out who I needed to shove on with my now 8BB stack.

Has anyone else experienced this…, I really don't know how to describe it; sudden shift in perspective, maybe?

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April 20, 2014 - 10:36 am

<I think we get numb sometimes when this happens a lot. It's tough to see bad decisions rewarded. Just know that they will be exiting soon and fight back with the rest of your stack. Laughing is a very good reaction because it can be humorous. You have to think of the times you make final tables by winning flips with the worst hand. It works both ways. Yesterday was an unending succession of bad beats……. Must have gotten over pairs sucked out on 7 or 8 times and gotten out drawn by weaker hands in the most unlikely ways. It does happen a lot so you can't let it bother you. Good that you are taking it in stride because reacting badly will make it worse. There was some bad language flying around here all day though. Your opponents 7 4 hand made me laugh because I was getting those situations too- who calls a 3 bet or shoves with a hand like that? Makes it a little tough to range them. Hmmmmm….how do I do against any 2 cards? Gotta love the weekends

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May 13, 2014 - 10:25 am

Good job! You've reached the point of accepting that those hands are always going to happen. The bad news is, the next big test is how you handle it when it happens deep in a tournament with a lot of money on the line. wink

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May 14, 2014 - 1:05 pm

peppergrinder said:

Laughing is a very good reaction because it can be humorous.

You have to think of the times you make final tables by winning flips with the worst hand. It works both ways.

These are the best two pieces of advice.

I feel like I've been on a perpetual run-bad run for the last 2-years or so, with a couple of rungood spots mixed in. In those very brief and profitable run-good spots, those final tables only happened because I came from behind once or twice, so I really try to think about that when that A-hole calls my 35 BB shove on the bubble with Q3o and gets there against my AKss.

Just try to laugh and think about your last suck-out. I find it helps me a ton.

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