Dealing with bad beats - repost from Beginners Circle

[taipan168]

I already posted this in the BC, but if anybody has any comments, let me know and I will edit.

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...oker-61079.htm

[bjsaust]

That was a really good post Tai. Those stages made a really big difference to me.

I'm probably still at stage 3 rather than 4, however I'm now able to smile and shrug off a bad beat as long as I made the right play.


One thing I've found myself doing, is analysing Opps play also. Not sure if it fits into that thread, however often when you look at a hand with a calm mind, you realise that opponent isnt such a donkey after all. Just because he didnt do what we wanted him to do, or what we think he should have done based on how we think he should have read our hand, doesnt mean it was neccessarily a bad play. Sometimes you realise your clever bluff was really transparent and didnt make sense, or that to a thinking player a bluff there DID make sense, so even though you had a monster and repped a monster, opponent was really a donkey thinking you may have been bluffing or something.

Too often we judge peoples play based on what WE know we had and on how WE think we represented our hand, and in fact opponents play really wasnt so bad based on our possible ranges.