The bad beat in Texas Holdem Poker can really rock your world and send you into a full tilt. The only thing that you can do when it happens to you, and it will, is shake your head and move on. There is always another poker hand coming up. If you drell on the bad beat you may not recover for the entire game and you will certainly lose lots of money.

Don't laugh. The bad beat will happen to you if you play any amount of Texas Holdem. Actually the incident above was not really all that bad. The guy had a legitimate hand. He took a gut shot and won. And hey, what the hell. You are never going to see four of a kind unless you draw to it from time to time.

A real bad beat is when somebody draws against you with no attention payed to common sense or odds. I was beaten once by a player who must in the long run spend lots of money on poker games. He consistantly ran his luck all the way to the river and was not that lucky. on one hand it came down to just him and I. I had a pair of kings in the pocket and hit the set on the flop. It came K, 4,6. The turn showed up a Jack. No help to either him or I. I was feeling pretty confident with my set of Aces and did not hesitate to bet. He beat me on the river when a 7 was turned over. He had been drawing to 5,8 unsuited. Imagine that. Being in the game with a 5,8 unsuited at all. Imagine staying all the way to the river to draw to an inside straight.