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Bad Beat - Poker terms
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Perhaps the most overused, and incorrectly applied, expression in poker today is bad beat.
The correct definition of a bad beat is to lose a hand due to incredibly bad luck, or to lose when you hold an incredibly strong hand (say four of a kind) to an even stronger hand (say a straight flush), which in itself is desperately unfortunate.
If your opponent sucks out on the river by drawing the one card in the deck that can beat you (a 43:1 against scenario) this qualifies as a genuine bad beat. But some poker players consider any loss when they were in front to be a great injustice, and just as unlucky.
The extent of luck in poker is dictated by the odds against a card coming to beat your hand. In some circumstances, when an opponent has 8 outs say with one card to come, it is unlucky to lose but hardly compares to other instances when the odds were far more heavily in your favor.
Many card rooms, both online poker rooms and bricks and mortar establishments, offer bad beat jackpots. To win a share of this jackpot you have to be involved in a hand where a bad beat occurs, and jackpots are awarded based on a strong hand being beaten by an even stronger hand. Most bad beat jackpots start with a minimum requirement of an Aces-full full house as the beaten hand, usually Aces over Tens, or Aces over Jacks. Online card rooms have higher minimum requirements, starting out with four of a kind as the beaten hand.
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