What Is A Bad Poker Hand

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In the Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences (1903), the dead man’s hand is comprised of jacks and sevens. Several accounts claim that later, in 1907, British writer Edmond Hoyle (of Hoyle Cards and Poker Hall of Fame fame) called the dead man’s hand jacks and eights; however, Hoyle died in 1769, so this would have been a truly remarkable feat indeed.

  1. Texas Hold’Em Bad Beat Jackpot General Rules 1. The Bad Beat Progressive Jackpot shall apply to the game of Texas Hold’Em only. To qualify for the Bad Beat, a hand of Four Jacks or better must lose to a higher ranking hand that must either be Four of a Kind or a Straight Flush or Royal Flush.
  2. Sep 13, 2011  Poker pot equity refers to you being able to get enough from a pot given your hand prior to making a betting decision. So if you have a good poker hand, but the pot is small, you would be getting.

Tattoos used to be the preserve of sailors and criminals back in the day, but in modern times you’d struggle to walk the length of your street without seeing someone inked up. Of course there are any number of designs you might have etched on your body, but poker symbols are definitely up there with the most popular. But there are tattoos and then there are tattoos!

Without further ado, let’s take a look at the good, the bad and the downright ugly of poker tattoos.

The Good


If you’re going to get yourself inked, try to make it as personal as possible. This version of the ever-popular ace of spades works really well – perhaps a bit on the big side for its position, but nicely done nevertheless.


On first sight from afar I thought this was just an ugly mess until I looked closer and saw what it actually was – a fantastically clever caricature of Motorhead’s late, great vocalist Lemmy Kilmister, encased in his trademark Ace of Spades – warts and all!


Getting the suits tattooed is one of the most popular of all poker inkings, and this one fits the bill perfectly – big, bold and artistically done! Not for the faint-hearted or the shy though; the rib-cage hurts like hell when that needle digs in to bone!



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Here’s another couple of takes on the suited tattoos. The main plus of suits is that they can fit anywhere and have contrasting colours and shapes for the artist (or yourself) to play around with as a design.


For some, big sleeves and bodywork offer the opportunity to show off amazing tattooing skills. This one is expertly done: the shading, the hands and the mirrored sunglasses denote expert tattooing while the moustache looks real enough to touch!


The idea of Jesus playing a female Satan might not be the top of most peoples’ lists, but it allows the artist to go to town and show off his expertise. It might not go down too well when you flash it to your great grandmother in church however!

The Bad

OK, Let’s have a look at some of the worst versions of what we’ve just seen. How can you get the Ace of Spades wrong I hear you ask? Well, take a look at this…

SHOULD YOU PLAY CLASS II GAMES AT ALL?That’s a good question but one without an easy answer. They hired engineers that had worked for major slot machine manufacturers like IGT to develop the in-house computer system to make it work while their casino operations side worked with slots and video poker manufacturers to create games that would work within their system. Tricks to win on slot machines.


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Take a simple design and add everything you can to it – spider webs, a hangman’s noose, rain and lightning (I think!) and split it into three parts. Just awful! And this next one is no better, although I have my doubts if it’s even a real tattoo!

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This is what happens when you let a three–year old draw things and then allow his four-year old sister to tattoo it!

OK, not every tattoo artist is great – and they all have to practice somewhere before setting up shop – but the next two tattoos are downright BAD! And not in a good sense either!


If you can stop what is wrong with this one in under 10 seconds you get a bonus tattoo! Ok, we all know hands aren’t easy to draw – in which case don’t fucking draw them if they are going to be permanently displayed on your arm! Poker who cuts the deck. I’m not sure if the spades are getting any better with practice, but I reckon it would take about 100 arms-worth before it looked anything like the real thing.

The Ugly!

What

I may be being a bit unfair on this next one – after all you’re free to get tattoos anywhere you like and the actual work isn’t so bad – but getting suits on your fingers might not serve you too well when you go for a traditional job.


How about on the hands?


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What

Well, no, just no! Even if the Q 3 A is hugely significant to you, I’d advise a back or arm tattoo instead. However, this next one wins the entire poker tattoo internet image award for UGLY!


What the actual fuck was this guy thinking about when he got a royal flush tattooed on his face? Seriously, you’d have to be grade A ugly to think this would make you look better! If anyone can tell what the script and lettering above and below means then please post in the comments section – it might just make sense of what we’ve just seen!

Ok folks, this is just a small sample of the designs – good, bad and ugly – that are already out there. My own next design is a chess one unfortunately, but if I ever do get a poker pone done, it might be nice to have an ace up my sleeve…


In poker, bad beat is a subjective term for a hand in which a player with what appear to be strong cards nevertheless loses. It most often occurs where one player bets the clearly stronger hand and their opponent makes a poor call that eventually wins with the turn or the river card being dealt in their favor, for example.

There is no consensus however among poker players as to what exactly constitutes a bad beat and often players will disagree about whether a particular hand was a bad beat. A few examples are: quads over full house, quads over quads, straight flush over quads, small full house vs. bigger full house or better.

Types of bad beats[edit]

Any hand that looked like a favorite to win can end up losing as more cards are dealt (with the nuts being the exception), but bad beats usually involve one of two not mutually exclusive scenarios:

  • The player who wins on a bad beat is rewarded for mathematically unsound play. Calling a bet despite having neither the best hand nor the right pot odds or implied odds to call, then winning anyway, is characteristic of this type of bad beat. It can also involve the inferior hand catching running cards when it requires two cards in a row to come from behind to win the pot. For example, catching cards on both the turn and the river in Texas hold 'em that complete a straight or flush.
  • A very strong hand loses to an even stronger one, better known as 'cooler'. This type of beat occurs with some frequency in movies. In the films The Cincinnati Kid and Casino Royale, The Kid and Le Chiffre each lose with a full house to a straight flush. In this situation, it is possible that both players have played their cards well, and avoiding the bad beat could not have been achieved without committing a mistake.

Reacting to bad beats[edit]

A bad beat can be a profound psychological blow, and can easily lead to a player going on tilt. Professional player Phil Hellmuth, among others, is notorious for his pronounced reactions to bad beats. However, suffering a bad beat means that the losing player was 'getting the money in good' and in most instances would win by playing the same hand the same way. Thus, the more stoic poker players accept bad beats as an unpleasant but necessary drawback to a tactic that works the vast majority of the time.

Bad beats online[edit]

In online poker rooms, bad beats often lead to accusations that the random number generator is 'rigged', even though such beats also occur in offline games. Many online poker rooms post statistical data to demonstrate the randomness of the hands generated.[1] In online poker games players have an opportunity to play in 'bad beat' tables where the player who has the best losing hand receives an accumulated prize pool. An additional amount of rake is taken from each hand to fund the jackpot. The largest online jackpot to date was €1.25 million, hit in July 2011 with €443,000 going to the loser of the hand.[2]

Players are statistically more likely to experience bad beats online, since playing using a computer allows for more hands played per hour. Also, online players may play multiple cash game tables and/or tournaments at the same time, also increasing the frequency of hands dealt.Also, tells are rendered moot, so players are incapable of reading clues such as body language in aid of deriving the strength of an opponent's hand.Finally, online poker games (especially freeroll tournaments) are far more accessible to the average player who, being average, is less likely to be knowledgeable regarding the techniques of the game, in turn making it more likely they will bet from the gut or intuition rather than experience.

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Bad beat jackpot[edit]

A bad beat jackpot is a prize that is paid when a sufficiently strong hand is shown down and loses to an even stronger hand held by another player.[3] Not all poker games offer bad beat jackpots, and those that do have specific requirements for how strong a losing hand must be to qualify for the jackpot. For example, the losing hand may be required to be four-of-a-kind or better. There may be additional requirements as well. For example, in Texas hold 'em there is usually a requirement that both hole cards play in both the losing and winning hands, or that where a full house is the minimum (usually aces full of jacks or higher), both hole cards must be used to make the three-of-a-kind in the full house.

Bad beat jackpots are usually progressive, often with a small rake being taken out of each pot to fund the jackpot (in addition to the regular rake). When a jackpot is won, it is usually split among all players sitting at the table at the time of the bad beat with the losing hand getting the largest share, followed by the winning hand, and all the other players dividing the remainder. Generally, only the best losing hand is eligible to win the largest share, even if another hand would also qualify.

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See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^PokerStars: Random Number Generator Audits
  2. ^Boss Media's Bad Beat Jackpot is Finally Hit
  3. ^'Commerce Casino: Jackpots'. Archived from the original on 2006-08-20. Retrieved 2006-08-20.

Books[edit]

  • Bad Beats and Lucky Draws by Phil Hellmuth ISBN0-06-074083-3
  • Poker: Bets, Bluffs, And Bad Beats by A. Alvarez ISBN0-8118-4627-X

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