Bad beat
A bad beat in poker is a term used to define the circumstance when a player with seemingly strong cards, still ends up losing, or even the set of cards which appeared to be strong but did not deliver. A bad beat usually occurs, when the other player despite making a poor call, hits and wins.
A bad beat is a very subjective term, and often players do not come to a consensus on whether a particular hand can be termed as a bad beat or not. The most common and popular type of bad beat is when a strong hand loses to a stronger hand. For example, a full house losing to a straight flush.
Another type of bad beat is when a player is gingered. This occurs when a player makes gains from mathematically unsound play, and thus ends up winning by the bad beat. For example, when a player, who neither has the best hands on the table, nor does he have the right pot odds to make the call, makes the call anyways, and then ends up winning the pot, he is said to have won by a bad beat.
For example, in Texas Hold’em game, if Player A catches cards in the turn as well as the river, thereby completing a flush or a straight, then Player A has won a pot by bad beat. Basically Player A just called a pot all in pre-flop, with 3 and 5, against a strong pair, and against a strong raise, but going on to pull two pair, or even a straight and thus winning a pot he should never have won in the first place.
But all poker games do not offer bad beat jackpots, and even those games that do allow it, have very strict specifications on strong the losing hand should be, for it to qualify for the bad beat jackpot. All in all, a bad beat is basically when a player wins the pot with an unlikely hand, beating a strong contender by simple and pure luck.
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