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Theo Tran, JC Tran, Chino Rheem or Chad Brown might have started with a bad-beat story.
Poker News 2010
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Theo Tran, JC Tran, Chino Rheem or Chad Brown might have started with a bad-beat story.
Poker News 2010
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My friend Josh despises bad-beat stories, because unfair turns of fate are inevitable and, he argues, should be factored into the long-term game by serious players.
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To him, the endless discussions of bad beats online, confined as they are to specific boards, serve only a larger community need: "to siphon off all the bad-beat hijacks that would muck up the more serious and useful poker discussions elsewhere."
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And if the honest, jerky reply to a vanishing-date story is "He's just not that into you," then the equally honest, equally jerky response to a bad-beat story is "Face it: you lost."
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Granting, then, that the primary goal of a bad-beat story is to get something off your chest, there are narrative strategies you can employ to make sure other posters don't yawn you off a board.
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When it comes to online poker, bad-beat stories entertain an inevitable, if unspeakable, contemporary worry: the Internet is rigged.
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An exemplary bad-beat narrative sounds like this: "I went all-in on the flop with aces, the board was AKQ rainbow, got called by 57 suited who also called my huge raise preflop, and lost to runner runner flush."
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With its combination of numbers, magic, hunches and statistics, the bad-beat story furnishes a nice range of narrative devices to frame a lament about losing, while making it crystal clear that the loss wasn't your fault.
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To win sympathy and kudos, according to at least one bad-beat narratologist, you have only to make clear how focused and intelligent you were, how high the stakes, how slim your odds of losing, how vile your opponent was and how well you command the idiom of your game.
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