Re: The Way it Really Is
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Do you enjoy it when you cop a terrible beat? Or an extreme series of them?
Winning money and copping terrible beats are related. But beats feel terrible when they happen. That's what I think.
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Nobody enjoys taking bad beats. But I think many of us want to own both sides of the coin. How often do we say "I didn't deserve such a big pot. Two people called bets on the turn and river and neither had odds to call past the flop."? We think we're somehow 'owed' the extra bets that poor players routinely put into the pot and then we get upset when those players get lucky and borrow some of those bets back.
Watch the TV pros. They take horrible beats all the time and generally just shrug their shoulders and wait for the next hand. Sometimes they don't even shrug their shoulders. I'm sure it hurts inside, but they recognize the beats as part of the game.
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Watching High Stakes Poker, I saw an amazing reaction to a really horrible beat. Ted Forrest reached into his pocket and dropped two $25K chips on the table and sat back down. He had absolutely no look on his face whatsoever.
That is a true professional poker player.
OP, while Theory of Poker is the source, SSHE is the Bible. Go and read, with all haste, and read it many times.
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