I’ve actually written an article before that was posted on this site, thank you so much!

Anyway, I drop by again because I wanted to ask a question, something about my first real experience of bad beats. It happened a week or so ago and it was really weird and dismaying. Well, the money I lost was not actually because of bad beats, I guess it was more on because of the knock on effects.

At first, everything seems to be fine. But because of a certain instance where in I caught a good flop and then plenty of money was in the pot, things went the opposite way. To add up, my girlfriend joined in and started chatting to me.

Eventually, the hand turned heads-up, and at that instance I was assured I had my opponent beat. I believed the possible best hand he could have was king flush if he caught on the river, however, I had the ace of spades, the nut flush! Then the river came that gave him the king flush. As a result, he went all-in.

After which, all the money went to my opponent. I am not exactly sure what happened. I believe I had the flush, so supposedly, I’m the winner. But sadly, the community cards for me were all black and I missed to read them out. I only had a four flush with the ace back then.

After that incident, I barely win a hand that had more than the blinds in it. Perhaps, you think I went on “tilt”, but sad to say it’s not the case.

By the way, constantly, I was drowning in the river big time. There’s always someone who has better hands. But several times I had the nut hand on the turn, therefore no matter what happened I don’t lose so we just share the pot.

Right now, I’m dealing with bad beats just right. But I’ll of course admit that it wasn’t easy to learn how to deal with them properly.

One thing I perhaps learned from having games full of bad beats – bad beats will always be a part of poker. And that they come with the territory. No matter what happens, it is important that you know how to deal with them properly. Never let any bad beats affect you and your subsequent pays.

At some point, I was happy on what I’ve become as a poker player, for I’ve turned out to be much better. In fact, I was once well on the road to recovery and have gained almost all my losses.

But because I thought I had enough of cash games, I finally decided then to try “sit and go” tourney. I tried a $5 by-in to maximize my playing time. But then, at some point things got worse as I’ve realized I had joined a limit tourney. By the way, I don’t often play limit.

Well, I’m so determined to win so I tried to make some necessary mental adjustments back then. I try to apply quick memory re-call of Skolanki which is said to be more useful and helpful in limit than no-limit. And to my surprise, in just a matter of 45 minutes, I won the tourney. I thought it was just a beginner’s luck perhaps.

By the way, I mentioned prior to this that I wasn’t on tilt. But at some point I thought I also made some generally accepted acts as tilt. Well, I did the exact opposite I guess. So, do you think I was actually on tilt but just the opposite way? Any advice?

Thanks!
Joe
Joe,

While you didn’t seem to come across as playing on tilt, the fact you changed your game due to your results did slightly imply that you were on tilt. With that said, sometimes it is better to try something else when you are running bad. If I am running bad at holdem, I will go play stud or Omaha for a while until I am ready to play holdem again. I’m not saying go play stud, but if you are not doing well at cash games, go play a couple single table tournaments. You may also want to drop in limits as well to help offset some of the swings.

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