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In poker, bad beat is a subjective term for a hand in which a player with what appear to be 🤑 strong cards nevertheless loses. It most often occurs where one player bets the clearly stronger hand and their opponent makes 🤑 a mathematically poor call that wins with any subsequent dealing to complete the hand.
In pure mathematical terms a one-outer can 🤑 be considered a pure bad beat, however there is no consensus among poker players as to what else exactly constitutes 🤑 a bad beat and often players will disagree about whether a particular hand was a bad beat. A few examples 🤑 are: quads over full house, quads over quads, straight flush over quads, small full house vs. bigger full house or 🤑 better.
Types of bad beats [ edit ]
Virtually any hand that looked like a favorite to win can end up losing 🤑 as more cards are dealt, but bad beats usually involve one of two not mutually exclusive scenarios:
The player who wins 🤑 on a bad beat is rewarded for mathematically unsound play. Calling a bet despite having neither the best hand nor 🤑 the right pot odds or implied odds to call, then winning anyway, is characteristic of this type of bad beat. 🤑 It can also involve the inferior hand catching running cards when it requires two cards in a row to come 🤑 from behind to win the pot. For example, catching cards on both the turn and the river in Texas hold 🤑 'em that complete a straight or flush.
