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Posted this elsewhere, but would be good to see some other people's reactions from live and online.

Live - I probably just shake my head in dismay and grind my teeth.

Online - Smash laptop a little bit (not too much as I'm not hard enough lol) & tilt in every other tourney, hence why I do not play much online, unable to handle a bad beat.

I never get bad beats so I don't know how I would react.

There's a 5 or 6 different seating spots in our living room. I always like to choose the armchair by the wall on the right, because slamming my mouse on that wall is really satisfying. It makes a loud noise but has yet to do any damage - perfect.

Live, nothing has phased me on the outside for a few years.

I make a hole in my jumper. Same place, every time. So annoying.

I occasionally swear online, but it tends to be a culmination of beats rather than just one. Sometimes shouting fuck when he gets there is just enough.

Live I try not to react at all ever but normally involves going to smoke or quitting if I do react.

Me too. I've had three bad beats over the past few years.

hope it wasn't your best jumpers

Online I will occasionally slightly forcibly lift my mouse of the pad and tap it down and/or say 'Reeeeaaaallllyyyyyy?' if its particularly bad/deep...

Live, well I guess I should ask other people haha :P (Wheres Armani when you need him?)

Just a sigh from me, live and online.

If it's an exit hand, and a fairly rough beat I tend to just stand up, walk away muttering about people who get it all in with 'that' when it's pretty obvious I have them crushed.

On extreme occasions** I have been known to kick over a chair. But I did it softly and my opponent wasn't sitting in it.

If it's mid-game I can generally shrug it off. If it's getting to me I get the music on and just let a spot of Arcade Fire fill my head



** once

My reaction to delivering a bad beat is actually harder to resolve in a way. It's not guilt, but a sense of discomfort and a feeling of embarrassment has to be overcome. The music often appears then too.

Live I try n smile n say nh ,but obv don't mean it ,smashed at least 4 laptops up ,throw em outta the back go outside jump up n down on em kick em kick the bin swear lots ,even the dog vacates the kitchen !

Shock alert, Tighty tilts. Well I never would have thunk it.

I never get it in good

Have been known to use curse words, or say noooooo ffs, usually under my breath.  Even then it is dependent if villian has played it right.  If we get it in with AA vs KK or set over set then I am pretty relaxed about it even if they get the one outer.  If he 4 bet spews it in with A8 off for 50 BBs, or limp shoves the SB with 84 soooooted and hits then it is tougher.  Even then I don't go in for berating people, just so wrong to slag off the fish.

Pretty sure I have never broken anything.  I have been know to spew off stacks straight after, though even that doesn't really happen very frequently anymore.

I tend to be fairly sanguine these days, if I have got in a good position then there isn't much more I could do.  I must admit to giving someone the "wp" the other day after they typed "lol" after they sucked out on the river.  Probably as aggro as I get these days.

I probably handle badly timed internet disconnections worse than bad beats, thankfully my connection has been fairly solid for a few months now.

Live; worst you'll probably see me do is shake my head or say "so sick"

Online I don't think it's safe to post without someone being concerned for my personal safety.

99.9% it's a case of meh, next.

Did once make contact with my desk with a clenched fist to see a glass full of juice go airborne, I lol'd.

Couple times expected the mouse to be broken post smashing it off the desk.

+1 one to internet disco's being much more tilting than bad beats.

+treefiddy

Realising an hour later that you haven't reopened one of your sites just adds to the fun.

in live games i don't tend to react either way, whether i am on the wrong or right end of a bad beat - the fist pumpers need to get a life imo.

at home i just tend to mutter obscenities under my breath when someone gets there after doing something ridiculous, but can definitely see the tilt knock-on effect on subsequent hands for a short while if its pretty bad.

Fist pumpers are 100% more tilting than bad beats imo, it's the one thing I really detest about live poker....

In live games in brutal spots like coolers I act in a way I can't express but will try. I got KK into Matt Frankland's AA in November, in my biggest pot ever, not by a huge margin due to a hand where i flop the nuts in omaha and it went on the river, late into a session but apart from that clear by like £1200 or so. So a brutal pot that really needs the stars to align to happen. Its his first session afaik and I haven't seen him since, combined with the game being nut busting good all night until his arrival. I was in for my most ever at a bit of a bag having been stuck a chunk all night and topping up to my comfort level in accordance to Moby's stack size. I win it all back and we get chunks of bigs in. I stand up, drink my tea, go for a piss come back cash out my pittance and come back only to say "I'd love to chat, but i just can't." and walk out, head down. Dejected maybe?

Sorry for tl:dr I just started typing and it all came out, therapy ftw.

I usually charge around the house, in every room at least twice while muttering about how bad i run. The worst thing for me is that when i tilt, i tilt about tilting!! Never ending cycle when that starts, usually leads to snap shutting the laptop.

I have been known to throw some shapes when delivering a bad beat though, only twice and was both v chat box warriors. The next 5 minutes watching the chat box is usually great as well, especially v the ones who get more annoyed by the fact you’re not replying!   

Used to get angry but now its all very meh, onto the next one.

Do remember 2 years or so when I was under it and I was in some online comp with 30k ftw with 10 left. Got it in with AA v KK and I lost to a straight with an A on the river completing it.  I did throw a cup full of cold coffee at the wall.

Day to day tho, especially online cash its all very meh.  Online I might mutter FFS but thats really it.  Sometimes I get a bit wound up by beats in MTTs but again after a few seconds usually I forget about it.  Helps if I'm playing tonnes of tables.

Don't think i react too much live either but then again I can't see me so can't really judge it!

Live tier by ten change on 8 23 30

Online Tier by ten change on 8 23 30

Live: a sigh and maybe a muttering of well played

Online: raise voice and swear a lot but don't hit/smash anything

I get up say good luck walk away and cry.

May raise an eyebrow occasionally.

Live:

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Online:

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Haha, brilliant! ^

I pure bubbled a comp online tonight. aa v A10. I was kinda proud.

It's "tierce" Paul which is French for "third" as the bet covers one third of the wheel.

The full name of the bet is, "Le tiers du cylindre."

We generally abbreviate it down to just 'Tier'.

But yes, it does mean 1/3 of the wheel.

Live: Sigh. Say gg. Shake hands with people. Leave table. Single bad beats don't bother me, and usually play so few hands/hour live that it would probably take a really sick run of 3-4 beats in a dozen hands or so of each other to tilt me. Just going to happen so rarely. I suffer more from boredom tilt live because I'm playing so few hands, but because I'm a live fish I know if I bring anything with me to stop me losing focus, I'll stop paying attention to the action which is just as bad.

Online: First few beats I'm like "Meh, whatever". After a few beats occasionally get fed up and swear at the computer, play like a total donk (nothing new there) for a few minutes before I realise that I'm tilting and stand.

Disconnecting is way more tilting though. I have a problem on Sky Poker where if I go above like 15-16 tables I end up DDoS'ing myself, Sky Poker disconnects, I have to restart the client and reload all of the tables. Then because the tile button doesn't work properly with two monitors I have to move all my tables back in to position one at a time, while still trying to play all of these SnG's.

once you've played 500,000 hands of PotLimitOmaha on the internet you'll be so immune to bad beats that a really sick part of you actually enjoys them :D

I also have no qualms whatsoever when people jump about and celebrate outdrawing someone in live poker, they looked doomed and they won, they should be happy - well done them.

 

I don't normally react outwardly at all. Usually very good at giving a smile and a "NH" and cracking on.
Have to admit to slipping and totally over reacting to one this week though.
I play a friendly pub game once a week. It's only £3, and it's always mental.

The side action has always been turbo SnGs, but I've been nagging them for a while that they'd be better trying some micro cash instead.
for the last 3 weeks they've started a 10p/10p game and it's beserk and the beats are horrendous.
I'd got myself a really good seat to the left of the two most aggro players who were opeingin for anything between 70p and £2.
Was nitting up, waiting for a spot.
Villain with £13.50 makes it a whopping £3.50 UTG (I remind you this is 10p/10p)
I look down at AA. I have him covered by a couple of quid so hollywood a bit bvefore shoving.
He snaps mt off with J,10
flops a J, turns a 10.
Uncharacteruistically turned the air blue.
Too close to closing time to reload.
Just got to wait till next week to get a refund, but it's like that every week.

Despite being cash, the games have tended to play down to HU with one person walking away £100-£140 up.
10p/10p!
Not sharing location :)

Pretty standard stuff in the pubs round here that still have a poker scene. One of our locals has a 5p/10p evening with a max sit down of £10 that can see over £1000 on the table at the end.

PLO definitely makes you a lot more resilient when it comes to bad beats as there are some horrors out there and they all arrive at your door sooner or later especially when you play online.

Live beats can be a lot harder to take for me anyhow, especially when you have invested nine or ten hours of your time in a tourney, although I try very hard to take them on the chin and not to show any emotion.

Thanks for posting this vid, i just been crying with laughter..  rotflmfao

This is now my goto for all bad beats

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Prob not mine.