Bad beats: the poker player's scourge - we all end up on the wrong end of them and we all dish them out.

If you suffer a particularly bad beat while playing at Nutspoker, send us the hand number to support@nutspoker.com - if it really makes us wince, we'll report it here and you can share your pain with the entire Nutspoker community. We'll also credit one player with a $25 bonus by way of consolation.

Remember: getting your pocket aces cracked after going all-in pre-flop is NOT a bad beat, it happens about 20% of the time, so get over it...
If your quad aces lose to a straight flush, THAT'S what we want to hear about!

Bad Beat Blues Terms and Conditions

Bad beat is the term poker players use to describe a situation where a huge favourite loses a hand to a massive underdog on the unlikely turn of a card.
The term is also used when a player with a monster hand loses to a player with an even stronger hand.

By the way: losing with pocket kings because you went all-in pre-flop and were called by a nutcase with A-2 offsuit, who then spiked an ace on the river, is also NOT a bad beat - actually, it's inevitable, that's why pocket kings are known as ace magnets!
Granted, it may feel like one to YOU, but a sentence containing the words "I was all-in pre-flop..." generally has little to do with a bad beat!
(If, like Godsmack singer Sully Erna at the WSOP, your four aces lose to a royal flush, that's a bad beat!!).

Our heroine nobilijoh submitted this example showing the difference between Omaha and hold'em - a nut flush which improves to a full house might be a money-guarantee in hold'em, but not in Omaha...

In a PLO cashgame our heroine picks up A-A double-suited against the villain's pocket queens, making her a respectable 65% favourite before the flop - raising time! :-

 

The flop gives her the nut flush draw and two pair - time to bet and get some more money in that pot :-

 

The turn card completes the nut flush, with a redraw to a full house and the money goes in, our heroine unaware of what is about to hit her :-

 

The river is another ace, but the full-house is irrelevant, completely crushed by the villain's four queens... drawing dead with a monster hand - that's Omaha!

Russ Connor