Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 309
You are right. It is really only about perspective. This notion of "badbeat" is, to me, merely a piece of media language to describe an event.
Measured across a billion hands it is always what, in the real world, just an event. Whether it is negative or positive is merely a subjective viewpoint. To the winning player, a positive (probably easily forgotten as opposed to), the losing player, some horrifically negative experience, conveniently described as "bad beat".
This term didn't really exist in the 70's. "Bad luck" would have been the descriptive term. Then with tv coverage of Texas, an industry was born. The industry needed complex language to promote expansion. I play against many players who confuse extensive knowledge of poker terms (description) with the ability to play well (skill). {but that's another story}
Toss a coin a billion times and odd patterns will appear within the lineage. Meaningless except to those fascinated by odd patterns. Same with "bad beats". Only of interest to those fascinated by "bad beats".
No use wasting emotion or energy over them. Won't change anything; ever. Just an event; meaningless (whether it is committed to memory or not). As you link highlights, people (players in this case) remember the negative stuff. I wipe the tape after every hand; after 43 years playing I can't remember any specific hand I've ever played. Remember patterns though {but that's where skill enters the arena}.
Bad beat=emotion=deathwish. Play with any emotion and you are pre-disposed to failure (across the long-term).
