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Originally Posted by katymaty everyone has had their fair share of bad beats. |
It's probably not what you meant, but actually, good players suffer more bad beats than poor ones. Let's say you play 100 hands where you're an 80 percent favorite. On average, you're going to suffer 20 bad beats. That part is the same for everyone. So is the opposite; when you're the underdog, you'll suck out 20 times, giving your opponent 20 bad beats.
Where the difference occurs is that good players aren't in these situations an equal number of times. For instance, in the same amount of time that a good player is ahead 80-20 100 times, he or she might be behind 20-80 only 25 times. On average, that works out to suffering 20 bad beats while handing out only five.
That doesn't make you the unluckiest player on the face of the planet because you take four bad beats for every one you hand out. It makes you a better player than your competition, one who won 85 out of those 125 hands.