john_entony
feed the Fox
Loyaler
I think there's no way. This aspect of poker belongs to the "luck" category, and if, for example, your opponent gets a straight with 1 card, thereby breaking your pocket of aces, that's drama, but you can't affect it in any way.
NootNoot
Rock Star
Silver Level
Try folding every hand preflop.
Being more serious you don't want to avoid them. You can only suffer a bad beat if you got your chips in with more equity. Getting your chips in when ahead is the right thing to do and the results take care of themselves. In the long term if you make the right choices more often than making the wrong ones you win.
It's not nice to suffer a bad beat but it's part of the game.
Being more serious you don't want to avoid them. You can only suffer a bad beat if you got your chips in with more equity. Getting your chips in when ahead is the right thing to do and the results take care of themselves. In the long term if you make the right choices more often than making the wrong ones you win.
It's not nice to suffer a bad beat but it's part of the game.
puzzlefish
Legend
Loyaler
Ask yourself this question: do I feel lucky in this particular hand? If you answer no, then fold. If you answer yes, also fold. Only call when you clearly have the best hand and can't lose.
Bonus: if you flop a royal flush, make sure to check it down all the way to showdown.
Emily Trott
Legend
Loyaler
As others have said, there is really nothing that you can do. Last October at Foxwoods I was sitting to the right of the person who had the low end of this straight flush. The possibility of course was there that someone else would have the high end, but that isn't very likely so it would have been a bad move to fold. On top of that, if he had folded I wouldn't have found myself $7000 richer.
PsychoVas
What The Duck???
Bronze Level
Play bad hands, so you deserve to lose!
Seriously, you can't! The better you play, the worst your beats will be.
You are going to lose sometimes, that's inevitable. If it's a flip, it's not a bad beat. If you are the underdog, you expect to lose most of the times, some times you will be the one to luck out and win. Be more game orientated and not money or chips orientated.
yogo9
Visionary
Bronze Level
There's no way to avoid a bad beat, It's part of the game. The 1 million questions is; How to accept a bad beat.
You just need to realize that as long as they have outs, they can win. Like it's just as simple as that, it really is. You know you have the best hand but every time before calling you must realize you're not calling to win it automatically, you're calling the percentages that favor you, however, those percentages can shift. It's the fundamental value of poker.
Everybody remembers the bad beats but none remembers the revered quads, the 1-outers that hit on the river. So try and go back to those moments you yourself hit that 1-outer when you were almost drawing dead and remember that's what the game is built on - not only skill but luck also.
You just need to realize that as long as they have outs, they can win. Like it's just as simple as that, it really is. You know you have the best hand but every time before calling you must realize you're not calling to win it automatically, you're calling the percentages that favor you, however, those percentages can shift. It's the fundamental value of poker.
Everybody remembers the bad beats but none remembers the revered quads, the 1-outers that hit on the river. So try and go back to those moments you yourself hit that 1-outer when you were almost drawing dead and remember that's what the game is built on - not only skill but luck also.
fernandofcp
Visionary
Bronze Level
A bad beat can only be avoided if the hand is abandoned during the game. Otherwise, a bad beat could occur at any time. A bad beat is part of poker. But abandoning a strong hand will never be a good option.
Inabit
Enthusiast
Silver Level
It's a part of the game that you just have to accept. Sometimes you'll get a bad beat and sometimes you'll be the one giving the bad beat. If you're skilled enough to be getting the money good more often than not you'll revieve more bad beats than the other way round.
JesiEI
Rising Star
Bronze Level
And there you have to take into account the position of the move
You have to keep in mind that speaking first is not a very favorable factor, otherwise you have cards, besides the lack of people to bet
