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01. How to play a pair of fours...badly How to play a pair of fours...badly

Bad Beat

January 24, 2011 Here lies the Bad Beat Blogger. He folded his Pocket fours. Seriously, stick that on my tombstone. I can't talk about this hand for too long, as I'll get upset. But my mother told me to share. So here goes... The other night, playing a five-handed €0.10/0.20 cash game on PokerTime, I looked down to find the buggers staring straight back at me. I'd only just sat down. and had passed...
02. Why I hate aces (Part 3,476) Why I hate aces (Part 3,476)

Bad Beat

August 30, 2010 OK. Rant time. I was just playing in a $10k guaranteed tourney at a certain well-known offshore poker site that shall remain nameless. It paid to about 60 places and there were 300 or so players left. I'd done everything I NEVER do...been responsible, selective and careful. I'd won about six or seven hands to get to this stage and was in better than average shape.I was just getting itchy...
03. Neil Channing wins £64k. So much for 'Bad Beat'... Neil Channing wins £64k. So much for 'Bad Beat'...

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August 18, 2010 NEIL Channing has won the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Luton and an impressive £64,050. The 42-year-old, known as 'Bad Beat', beat off competition from 228 rivals to win the £1,000 buy-in event. Channing, whose form has improved dramatically in recent years, now boasts nearly $3 million in live tournament winnings, although he needed his fair share of luck to land the...
04. Nobody deserves a beat this bad. Not even me... Nobody deserves a beat this bad. Not even me...

Bad Beat

August 2, 2010 I am absolutely incandescent with rage. I have just busted in about 1,500th place in the Pokerstars Sunday $250k with the worst f&%£ing beat of all time. I had been playing brilliantly. Usually, to get this deep in an insanely massive tourney of 30,000 players, you need to win some serious coin flips. Tonight, having won my $11 seat in a breeze in a $1 satellite, I played like...