Bad Beat Bob

I've had a bad run of luck this week. As far as I know I have been doing all the right things, playing the right hands, not going too loose or anything like that. Trouble is, four or five times now I've lost big pots when someone drew a straight or sometimes three of a kind on the river.

I know this happens to everyone and it evens out in the end, but it doesn't make it any easier to deal with when it's your turn to cop the bad beats, and even worse is when they come in a sequence. It's demoralising. You do everything right, someone else does everything wrong, and they walk away with the pot.

I've managed to keep my emotions in check so haven't gone on tilt or anything like that. However, it does get harder to control yourself so a couple of times I have had to get up and walk away to avoid doing anything silly.

I've looked on youtube to see some other bad beats just to remind myself that I'm not the only one who suffers. Seems as well that various poker rooms offer a bad beat jackpot, so if you lose undeservedly you get entered in to win a big jackpot like this guy:



I'm not sure if the poker room I was playing at does this. I was at Betfair Poker last time it happened so I need to check the details of their Betfair poker promotions to see if they have any bad beat rakeback, jackpot of anything else to make you feel a bit better after getting a kick in the nuts! Let's hope so.

Anyway, I'm having the weekend off now and I'll be back to it next week hopefully with some better luck. Yeah I know, there's no such thing as luck, it's all probability. Well in that case, let's hope for some better probability next week!