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What is a bad beat in poker, and how do bad beats work?<\/p>\n
A lot of beginner poker players have trouble with bad beats. If they read this post carefully, they\u2019ll probably feel a lot better about them.<\/p>\n
A bad beat in poker is when a strong hand loses in later betting rounds because a weaker hand has improved.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll occasionally here someone who has pocket aces who loses to pocket kings complain that they had the better hand. That\u2019s not true. You don\u2019t know who has the better hand until the showdown when all the cards are dealt.<\/p>\n
Until then, you have a stronger hand, but it\u2019s all theory until all the cards are dealt.<\/p>\n
Winning poker players make their money by getting it into the pot when they have the mathematical best of it<\/a>. <\/p>\n If you\u2019re not getting any bad beats, you\u2019re not getting your money into the pot with the best of it.<\/p>\n The bad beats are just part of it.<\/p>\n Think about it this way.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re at a table with 9 players and have pocket aces, and if all of the players call all the way to the river, you\u2019ll lose 2\/3 of the time. Someone\u2019s hand will improve enough to beat you.<\/p>\n And every time, that\u2019s a bad beat.<\/p>\n Of course not.<\/p>\n You make your profit by what you get paid when you do win.<\/p>\n If 9 people each put $100 into the pot, you stand to win $800 1\/3 of the time.<\/p>\n The other 2\/3 of the time, you\u2019ll lose $100.<\/p>\n This means that you\u2019ll win $800 for every $200 that you lose \u2014 for a profit of $600.<\/p>\n And you\u2019re losing most of the time in this scenario.<\/p>\n This is why I get so amused at players who get mad when their opponents fold in the face of their aces. They\u2019d rather have the sure thing small win instead of the more profitable situation.<\/p>\n They\u2019d rather avoid the bad beats on 2\/3 of the hand.<\/p>\n Not me.<\/p>\n Bring on the bad beats.<\/p>\n <\/img>Few things make you sound like more of a newbie than constant bad beat stories. I have a friend who runs a bar in Pennsylvania, and they have almost constant poker games there. He told me a story about one of his bartenders.<\/p>\n Said bartender brought in an empty jar with the words \u201cbad beat\u201d on the side of it. Any time a patron of the bar wants to share a bad beat story, the bartender tells them to put a dollar in the jar.<\/p>\n This bartender has the same response to all these bad beat stories, too. No matter what the story is or how much money the guy lost, he always says, \u201cYeah, man. That\u2019s a BAD beat.\u201d<\/p>\n Everyone\u2019s happy, too. Drunk losing poker players love to tell bad beat stories. And bartenders love to make extra tip money \u2013 even if they have to listen to bad beat stories to get the money.<\/p>\n Many casinos now offer bad beat jackpot games. The way these games work is that you put a little extra rake into the pot on every hand \u2013 that extra amount fuels the jackpot. You win the jackpot when you have a premium hand which gets beat by an even more premium hand at the showdown. Usually, the other players at the table also get a percentage of the bad beat jackpot.<\/p>\nThe Bad Beat Jar<\/h2>\n
How Does a Bad Beat Jackpot Work?<\/h2>\n