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Bad beats in poker are inevitable. Whether you’re a professional poker player or it’s your first time at a table, you’re guaranteed to lose a hand that you should have won.

Typically, bad beats are the results of "suck outs," or sudden changes in the result of a hand happening on the turn or the river. During a suck out, an inferior hand gets a card that statistically wasn’t in their favor to get, and they end up winning the hand. Bad players often get rewarded for bad play because of suck outs, giving a lot of chips to reckless players and conveying the differences between a good had and the best hand.

Suck outs usually happen when a player has a drawing hand, like some drawing for an inside straight or backdoor flush. As the player waits around to catch the one card he needs, a player with an already good hand bets to avoid the potential of his opponent getting a better hand than his. If the person gets the draw against the better hand, the result is considered a bad beat.

You can’t prevent bad beats from happening, but you can avoid them. Of course there is some merit to avoiding bad players. With bad players come bad beats because they are more likely to make bad choices that lead to suck outs.

Bad beats can occur just as easily with experienced players as they can with bad players. Indeed, pros catch just as many suck outs as amateurs do. The difference is in the quality of hands involved in the play. A person who loses with quad aces against a royal flush would consider the hand a bad beat, not because his opponent played poorly, but because the circumstances were unfair.

Unfortunately, there is no real way to prevent bad beats from happening to you. Bad beats can happen to anyone, anywhere, at anytime. Until there is a way to control the cards that come out of the deck, bad beats will always occur. In the mean time then, we’ll all have to smile, forget about it, and wait for another hand.

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