{"id":498,"date":"2010-05-28T07:49:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T11:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?p=498"},"modified":"2010-05-30T21:18:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T01:18:18","slug":"surviving-bad-beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/surviving-bad-beats","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Bad Beats In Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody, even the best professional poker players in the world, wins all the time. Everyone has bad beats now and then. However, it doesn&#8217;t pay to quit completely just because you have a losing streak. Just play through, wait for it to pass and you&#8217;ll start winning again eventually.<\/p>\n<p>How do you keep a positive attitude when nothing seems to be going your way at the poker table? For some players the best way to get over a bad beat is to just stick with it, use smart strategy and wait for a win. When you win one hand your spirits should lift and the positive attitude will help you win again and again.<\/p>\n<p>Other players just can&#8217;t focus when they are on a losing streak. If you are one of these types of players then continuing to play high stakes games will only eat away at your bankroll. A good way to get through your bad beat without taking a chunk out of your poker bankroll is to start playing free poker or very low stakes poker game until you get back on track. This is a great way to keep your skills polished and avoid bigger losses. Once you start feeling better about your game you can go back to the high stakes games.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember, everyone goes through losing streaks every now and then, but everyone gets out of them. Try to keep a positive attitude and you&#8217;ll see that your next winning streak is right around the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody, even the best professional poker players in the world, wins all the time. Everyone has bad beats now and then. However, it doesn&#8217;t pay to quit completely just because you have a losing streak. Just play through, wait for it to pass and you&#8217;ll start winning again eventually. How do you keep a positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[197,10,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}