Since getting good cards and getting them cracked by one or two-outers is just something that happens in poker, we get some use for these bad beats by talking and writing about them. Poker player’s love reading or hearing about bad beat stories, even if it is just to remind them that some other poor soul is suffering just like they do. Luck is a part of the game we love because it sometimes helps us and we hate because it sometimes hurts us. We never remember our lucky moments, but the bad beats are visible just like scars on your skin. For whatever reason, hearing how a pair of Aces lost to 7 2 offsuit never gets old. In order for you to write or tell a great bad beat story, here is how you do it.
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Previously I have admitted having a guilty pleasure in listening to other people’s bad beat stories. It gives me both a laugh at the antics of some players and it also reminds me that when I suffer that painful experience it is not just me that poker beats with the bad beat stick. Someone on an Internet Forum asked the question about the funniest things people had seen after a bad beat and I thought you would enjoy hearing them. I do not know that every single one is true, but I expect they are. Bad beats cause the already crazy poker players to go even crazier.
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