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Poker Tournaments at Ladbrokes Poker contain situations which can often change the shape of your tournament, whether they happen for, or against you.

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I decided to talk a little about this aspect of the game after seeing a terrible bad beat in my online tournament earlier. The flop came down (3,Q,K) and one player made a big raise. His opponent then reraised all in, and after some thought, was called. The original raiser turned over (K,8) with no Flush options, and the other player (K,Q) for two pair. There really don’t appear to be any options for (K,8) to win that aren’t completely miraculous, and this one certainly was that, as the Turn and River fell (8)…then (8). You might feel losing to a one outer is bad, but an opponent needing only running eights with only three of them left in the deck and hitting them, is truly horrifying for our (K,Q) player.

I have had poker players hit running cards for a Straight against my flopped set of Aces before, and one two outer springs to mind also, but there is nothing we can do to prevent this as players. If we live in fear of every outdraw in poker we will end up getting blinded out, so it is best to accept that for every time it happens against you, one day it will happen for you.

If you can maintain composure and continue playing good poker after it happens, you have done as much as you can as far as playing poker is concerned. So just keep getting those chips in when you are ahead, and sooner or later, the odds should work themselves out.