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Recently I have been receiving a large amount of bad beats knocking me out of tournaments, mostly after getting it in pre flop with a sizable advantage late in tournaments. I am pretty knew to playing sustained hours and I was wondering if this is a sign a fundamental problem or if everyone goes through these down swings. I still manage to stay up at cash tables but Ill get my cards in the middle with usually an over pair to a drawing hand or a smaller pair and I cant stop losing. The cards that usually get me are QQ I have been busted with those by 10's and two pair and made straights rather frequently lately after getting it in before the flop.So In anyone and everyone's opinion am I just a newbie going through a swing or are sustained bad beats a sign of a bigger problem?

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if you are getting ur money in with the best hand and getting drawn out on, there is nothing you can really do about it.if you are losing to 2pair, straights, etc, you need to learn to either make people pay to hit their draws, or learn how to lay down an overpair, on a coordinated flop.i dunno, its hard to help without specific examples, post some in strat and someone who actually knows what they are talking about (ie. not me) will help you analyze your play.-thetyfgine

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Recently I have been receiving a large amount of bad beats knocking me out of tournaments, mostly after getting it in pre flop with a sizable advantage late in tournaments. I still manage to stay up at cash tables
If this is really the case then it will even out. BTW going all in with QQ vs AKsuited is not a sizable advantage. Going all in with QQ vs JJ is a sizable advantage. Just wanted to point out the obvious. Just play cash games if that's where you win.
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i try to take a couple days off when they happen, had back to back nights (last night/night before) in 20$ tourneys get knocked out 10 or so from money, with like JJ vs JKs both times..flopped a set, both times..lost to runner runner flushes, both times.. i wasnt even in desperatation mode, it just happened. brutal, but you cant do anything about donks calling allins wit jk.

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i try to take a couple days off when they happen, had back to back nights (last night/night before) in 20$ tourneys get knocked out 10 or so from money, with like JJ vs JKs both times..flopped a set, both times..lost to runner runner flushes, both times.. i wasnt even in desperatation mode, it just happened. brutal, but you cant do anything about donks calling allins wit jk.
"FRICKIN DONKEY STUFFS ALL HIS MONEY IN WITH KING JACK!!!"sorry.. felt that was appropriate here
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take the kick in the nuts every now and then.... Ice em up and get back to the game...
you're posts seem to have nut icing theme to them tonight
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it'll break. same thing happened to me for about two weeks in sngs. would get half my stack in with kk preflop and watch it lose when someone with k9 calls a raise for half his stack and then flops two 9s. be patient and try not to tilt, it'll help save some of your bankroll.

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The cards have been suckerpunching me in the nuts for the last week. I have been sucked out of nearly one month's worth of profit in the last 4 days. I have been hit with a gutshot straight draw going all in against my top set. I have flopped 2 pair aces and queens to get a bluffer with K3 off suit catch running 3s to bust me for £200! Today I have had 2 pairs 7s and 9s beat my Ks and Js with a 9 on the river not to mention countless sets getting drawn to bigger sets when an overpair hits. I am thinking I should take a couple of weeks away from online poker and go only to my regular live games and the casino. At least I can remember the fish's face there and get my money back outside...Lol!Don't worry about it too much mate, if you can sustain the losses and they are genuinely suckouts not just missed coin tosses or you being a terrible player etc then you will come out the other side of it soon enough and make it back. In my case at least I'm not losing my own money! If only I hadn't already bought the Def Comedy Jam boxset and that new guitar with it...Why is it always the river?

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The cards have been suckerpunching me in the nuts for the last week. I have been sucked out of nearly one month's worth of profit in the last 4 days. I have been hit with a gutshot straight draw going all in against my top set. I have flopped 2 pair aces and queens to get a bluffer with K3 off suit catch running 3s to bust me for £200! Today I have had 2 pairs 7s and 9s beat my Ks and Js with a 9 on the river not to mention countless sets getting drawn to bigger sets when an overpair hits. I am thinking I should take a couple of weeks away from online poker and go only to my regular live games and the casino. At least I can remember the fish's face there and get my money back outside...Lol!Don't worry about it too much mate, if you can sustain the losses and they are genuinely suckouts not just missed coin tosses or you being a terrible player etc then you will come out the other side of it soon enough and make it back. In my case at least I'm not losing my own money! If only I hadn't already bought the Def Comedy Jam boxset and that new guitar with it...Why is it always the river?
Listen, man, a Krablar is NOT a bluffing hand. It's the REAL DEAL! Ph34r teh Krabl4r!
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Of course the Krablar is the real deal, I flopped a full house KK333 the other day, stunning! However, it is a bluffing hand when u catch running 3s! Lol

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Recently I have been receiving a large amount of bad beats knocking me out of tournaments, mostly after getting it in pre flop with a sizable advantage late in tournaments. I am pretty knew to playing sustained hours and I was wondering if this is a sign a fundamental problem or if everyone goes through these down swings. I still manage to stay up at cash tables but Ill get my cards in the middle with usually an over pair to a drawing hand or a smaller pair and I cant stop losing. The cards that usually get me are QQ I have been busted with those by 10's and two pair and made straights rather frequently lately after getting it in before the flop.So In anyone and everyone's opinion am I just a newbie going through a swing or are sustained bad beats a sign of a bigger problem?
The best thing I did was begin tracking my play with software like PokerTracker. I can look at my play over many sessions and it helps keep the bad sessions in perspective. For example, the other day I played for 9 hours straight and felt like I couldn't buy a pocket pair...over 300 hands and I only had 14 hands that were pocket pairs, usually small ones like 44. I checked the ratios of pocket pairs to hands dealt with PokerTracker and discovered I was not getting short changed. Tracking over 16,000 hands showed me about the same ratio of PP's to hands dealt (about 5%)....So, the point was...my lack of pocket pairs wasn't a conspiracy or bad luck...it was just average and typical of online poker.
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I don't get my chips in the pot pre-flop too often lately and it has paid off considerably. Try that method and you will find yourself getting bad beat less often. The reason is simple, you can see what kind of hands are out there by the action on the flop and if you make a small raise pre-flop then huge raise on flop (or all in) you won't find yourself getting hit with the runner-runner BS. But you also have to know your opponent and understand his chip count and situation - saying that a person who called your all-in with KJ is a donk is pretty stupid when we don't know the specifics. Also, when you take a bad beat, thank the person - i always do - Hell, if I have aces and a guy calls me with KJ and beats me with 3 jacks, I am happy that he's at my table. I can't understand why people get upset by that. Thank him for the action and move on.

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