Also because people sometimes confound bad beats with miscalculatons or overrating their hands.
For instance, no matter if I hold pocket Aces, my opponent 33, 33A comes on the flop and we both go all-in, his hands was simply better than mine from the start. Hence, no bad beat.
However, if with the same hands and in the same situation, if the flop comes AKK, then 3 on the turn and 3 on the river, then it is a bad beat because the odds were all in my favour and, statistically, the hand was mine at 99%.
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