A bad beat in poker is when you are very unlikely to lose but the opponent gets lucky. I remember playing in a €25 Texas Hold'em tournament in Slovenia. My hole cards were ♠A ♦Q and the flop came A♣ Q♥ A♥. I had gone all-in, and my opponent was almost "drawing dead" with a pair of deuces but he caught the other two deuces on the turn and the river to make quads and eliminate me. The origin of the phrase is apparently 17th century from any game of chance.
If I had gone off in 3NT on this hand from last night I would have regarded it as a bad beat. Some declarers even made an overtrick:
The normal lead here is the king of hearts, but this costs a fatal tempo. The only defence is for East to lead the two of clubs to the ace and another club back to North's king. Declarer can finesse the spades and now has three spades, four diamonds and one club, but nowhere to go for the ninth trick. If he plays four rounds of diamonds, East can spare a spade. If they find that defence against you, it is a bit of a bad beat.
The play after the king of hearts lead is quite pretty. Now East has to find the club switch to save the overtrick. Say that he exits with a diamond. Declarer cashes three rounds of these ending in North and now finesses the ten of spades and cashes the 13th diamond. North and East pitch spades, and declarer plays a club from dummy. West does best to go in with the ace and play another one, but North wins with the king and now leads the queen of hearts. West has to duck that or he will have to lead into the T8 of hearts. But on this trick East is squeezed and has to pitch a club, or declarer makes the small spade. Now North crosses to the ace of spades and sets up his tenth trick in clubs. A pretty squeeze. Stefanie Rohan found that line for a joint top.
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