bad play = huge profit

[DaJoob]

I'm playing heads up for $104.50 ($200 to the winner).

About 5 hands in to the game, I get pocket 4s. The blinds are 10/15, and both I and the other player have about our original 1000. I raise to 45. Other guy calls. Flop comes 4 7 2. I bet 60. Other guy calls, so I put him on ace 7. Turn comes a 7. I bet 120, other guy raises all in. I call. He has 7 4.

[DangerMouse]

HU any 2 cards can be playable, so I don`t think you can describe it as bad play. Hachem won the WSOP with 7-3 if I remember correctly. Very unlucky though

[DaJoob]

It's true that any 2 cards are playable heads up, but I'd played against this guy a few times before and he knows that I hardly ever raise without a pocket pair. So the only thing he could really hope for was that his 7 was live. Why would you call a raise knowing that at best you have one live card? There is the off chance that you could catch some incredible bs to bust your opponent, but more than likely, he was going to lose a lot of chips on the hand. Your stack size is very important heads up, so once you're short stacked, you're in serious trouble. Why would he take that huge risk knowing that it could likely cost him the match? Doesn't make any sense to me.

[DangerMouse]

No, all he risks losing are the 30-35 chips he puts in to call your bet, if he misses the flop he mucks his hand. If he hits, he has a great chance of collecting a sizeable pot.

Now maybe he`s noticed you only raise with pp`s, maybe he hasn`t, don`t always presume that an opponent catches onto a habit you have.

BTW if you are actually only raising with pp`s that`s a really transparent method of play. All poker is a mind game, HU even more so, it`s as much a battle of wills as it is of cards. HU is where you should be mixing your play up the most, the last thing you want is an opponent having a great read on you. When I`m HU I want my opponent not to know wether he`s coming or going, it doesn`t matter what my actual cards are I might flat call check or raise with anything just to keep them off balance.

[kanyezee/crazyyesdumbno]

Dont see how calling a further 30 chips in a 60 chip pot is bad play, hit and stack, sure a suckout on turn but did you see him folding to any bet.

His all in was bad perhaps but you got owned

[owner_bsp]

What is a bad beat and how can it affect how you play later? Please someone with some knowledge please explain this one to me. I have never experienced anything such as this and understand it somewhat.

[skinski]

What is a bad beat and how can it affect how you play later? Please someone with some knowledge please explain this one to me. I have never experienced anything such as this and understand it somewhat.When you have the best hand to only get beat by your opponent making a better hand by the river is what most call a bad beat . It has a tendency to put players on tilt when this happens to them.

tilt = letting your emotions cloud your poker judgement, it's called going "on tilt." Often, when a player suffers a bad beat or a losing streak, they will go "on tilt" and start playing badly.