What is a bad beat?!

[GwannIch]

In poker, bad beat is a subjective term for a hand in which a player with what appear to be strong cards nevertheless loses. It most often occurs where one player bets the clearly stronger hand and their opponent makes a poor call that eventually "hits" and wins. There is no consensus among poker players as to what exactly constitutes a bad beat and often players will disagree about whether a particular hand was a bad beat. However if u are real poker player there wont be such a word for u as bad beat

[mommahud]

Yeah I see a lot of bad beats, but sometimes it is the chance you have to take, lol

[marlais]

I'll go with the (standard?) BBJ definition of a bad beat: something beat your quad 8s or better. Then I will buy you a beer or three to cry into (except for lilg, who gets warm milk).

A shortstack jams AIPF with AJ, gets called by a deepstack with A5, flops a 5. This is not a bad beat, and does not entitle you to verbally abuse the deepstack for 2 minutes until your chat is turned off. To paraphrase Rick Paterno, act like you've been at a final table before.

[laster]

anything beating a fullhouse is considered a bad beat

[Christoffer]

why is everything beating a full hose necessairily a bad beat? couse it is extremely rare to have a higher full house?

[TimmysTrappoker]

a bad beat to me is when someone beats your fullhouse or better

[dimebags7]

nah, four of a kind or better.

[treeman69]

well here is my semi bad beat rant
in 11$ 4k gtd blinds 1k/2k
a10 in bb button raise to 4k i call
flop jjk chek chek
trn q he bets 4k i call
rvr 3 he bets 8k i shove he snap calls
trns out kk lol played me like a fiddle
my str8 floated away on a boat........................................sigh
i suk at poker today lol hopefully tommorow is better my br is down 25$ sotommorow ima grind some sng

[cognosenti]

anything that fucks your hand on a coinflip... hahaha

[Rcktwrangler]

Somewhere along the lines of a hand where you can't get away from.