bad beat: An event in which a player with a high expectation of winning the pot loses. This expectation may be based on having an unusually strong hand beaten by and even stronger one, or by having an opposing player make an extremely unlikely draw. Bad beat stories are frequent topics of conversation at poker tables. [Lou Krieger]? started a tradition among some players of charging $1 to listen to one.
In some casinos, there is a bad beat jackpot that will be won by the player that loses in a bad beat. Usually, a bad beat jackpot is won by a player holding 4 of a kind and is beat by a royal straight flush.
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