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Your President on Bad Beats!

05-30-2008 04:58:55 PM

Lately I have noticed a lot of people getting very passionate about their bad beats, sometimes players are taking it too far in a negative sense that they are be-rating other people's poor play, especially newer players.  
I get very discouraged by this because, new players coming to the tour is what builds EPT up and brings you more and more players.  This adds to the nightly prize pool, it allows us to give out more seasonal prizes, and even creates more potential for more sponsors to help us all grow together and play for more and more prizes and especially makes your nightly entertainment more fun!  Poker, especially the pub poker level, should be considered a fun social game that encourages enjoyment and interaction.

I remember a lot of players, even our most seasoned veterans who came to our tournaments for the first time completely green to what a poker tournament was, never-mind the strategies involved.  Concepts like 'using a cut-card', 'squeeze play', 're-raise', 'betting into an empty pot', 'under the gun', 'position-raise', 'A-K vs. QQ is only a coin-flip', ect. are all things that we have learned through experience. 
EPT should be used as a means to gain knowledge and better themselves as poker players and have ablast while doing it.  And just maybe get to the WSOP Main Event while doing so!
Don't get me wrong, a bad beat is a frustrating experience, but next time you think to be-rate a less experienced person's play think to yourself:
"Maybe that person would have been the 70th person that night I only won $100 instead of $200."