Thanks for reply Sunday..I am new to Blondepoker forum, but not new to poker.  I agree hands without bad beats are more interesting to analize. I personally like the hands posted where you decide each move on each street before the actual result is posted. I seem to learn more from those as people look at the cards, positions of players, and betting to offer their opinion rather than view the end result.

I did not take offense to your post...takes much more than that to ruffle my feathers, just wanted to point out that even with some bad beat hands things can be learned either by the winner of the hand or the loser of the hand, or both.

Stacey

Not always, but a majority of the time..bad beats are caused by one or more of the players making a mistake in the hand. Examples...didn't bet large enough on the flop, the raise pre-flop was incorrect, you were giving proper odds with your bets on turn because you got greedy with an overpair.

Just because someone may read a bad beat and think morons knew better, does not mean you can not analize and offer excellent and useful advice to one or more of the players in the hand.

We are all here to learn poker from one another and whether it comes in the form of a bad beat hand being posted should be of little difference, imo.

Stacey

Thank you so much for the warm welcome. This site was recommended to me by a great friend and I am looking forward to improving my poker wisdom here.