the beats go on...and on...and on... lol
 

this just in in the past 3 hrs, not even..all tourneys buck 45-player SNGs on stars, one of my favorites...

i dont even feel like giving out the elaborate setup/desc of the background or anything, the following just speaks for itself...here goes, 3 in a row...

1) tourney #1: 99 busted by 88

2) tourney #2: a) AK (with another AK in the pot) busted by 53o
b) AJ busted by QJ

3) tourney #3: QQ busted by 88

and i dont even feel like going back to the 4 tourneys i lost in a row in a very similar fashion earlier in the morning...getting just this off my chest for now is enough therapy for the moment... :D

ugh...i cant imagine how some ppl can rely on this for income/money... :D

you consider those bad beats?

I would say those instances are more like the luck of the draw. i would not classify that as a bad beat. What happened to me the other night was a bad beat. I flopped quad 4's and my opponent flopped 5's full, the river brought another 5 to make his quads. Now that i would consider a bad beat.

I dont think if you get your aces cracked by kings its a bad beat. People sometimes are so quick to blame losing a hand a badbeat when its just the way the cards fall. I think sometimes its more on the level of kicking the ass of the guy that calls your all in with AA with a 5 3 and beats you. Mathematically it is very possible and it will happen periodically.

Here is another situation in which i consider a very very bad beat. I was playing a 3 table tourney here at the casino here in miami. I was at the final table with about 5 people left. 1st position goes all in ( he was a big short stack about 300 units more than the big blind ) i look down and have KK, so i obviously think for that split second if he has aces. I'm positive he doesnt so i then call, he ended up having 33. The flop comes 8 10 K, giving me trips and him far far behind. At that point its about 98% to 2%. The turn comes a three, big deal huh? The river comes a 3, giving him quads.

Now that is what you can consider a huge bad beat.

i think u missed my point.

i wasnt saying that any of the individual instances i mentioned above, by itself, is a most horrible bad beat.

but in a row, to lose batches of 4-1/3-1 dominated showdowns, in other words cumulatively, in a row, back-to-back-to..etc, that is a bad, bad run.

simple stats...

i would have to agree on that, when you just keep losing like that, it gets on you nerves. but you should be glad that only a dollar was on the line. if there was more than a 100 bucks on the line, i would consider it a bad beat.

but its just seems impossible to lose that many in a row. either poker isnt your game, or you just have to get used to it. i bet the pros did.

No when you put it like that now i agree with you, you couldnt be further from the truth. i just didnt understand everything i guess, my fault