Usually means: Losing despite holding strong cards.
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General (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bad-beat: Wordnik
  2. bad beat: Wiktionary
  3. Bad Beat (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Bad beat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bad-Beat, bad beat: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bad Beat: Dan's Poker
  2. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bad Beat: Poker Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bad beat)

▸ noun:  (poker) The losing of a hand after being the mathematical favorite to win at the start of the hand.

Similar:
winning hand, cooler, cold deck, made hand, high card, lowball, slowplay, drawing hand, freezeout, reverse implied odds, more...

Opposite:
good luck, fortunate hand, winning hand, success

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Similar:
winning hand, cooler, cold deck, made hand, high card, lowball, slowplay, drawing hand, freezeout, reverse implied odds, more...

Opposite:
good luck, fortunate hand, winning hand, success



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