They should be calling it donkey or bingostars.First off i personally think the site is fixed.It favors the bigger stacks all the time.Example if someone raises you and you are the smaller stack and push all in and they call you you are almost guaranteed to get the boot.You can have pocket Kings and someone will call with Ace 6 you are almost guaranteed to see an ace or two sixes.You see aces cracked by runner runner or the board straightening out all the time.I saw AA KK and 44 destroyed by Q6 just because some moron had them covered.Coincidence? i don't think so!That happens so much on pokerstars it gets me frustrated.Maybe some people will disagree with me but if you play on there lots like i do you will start to notice the pattern.People will say "then why play there" Well i do cash in quite often.Iam just warning newcomers to that site to be very careful.Even the skilled players take savage beats by the computer program at pokerstars.nuff said.
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I guess my question is, why are you always the short stack and never the big stack? That may help remove the "rigged" element from the game/site.
Cheers and gl. Remember if you need any help with strategy and stuff feel free to post it in the appropriate forum. I will gladly add my own insight to help you out.
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So wrong. I've seen so many shortys luckbox their way into healthy stacks, (usually around bubble time) then ITM.
Hell, I've done it a few times.
Think of all the times your Kings held up and you busted a guy... oh wait, you probably don't remember them because that is what is supposed to happen. The problem is that events that AREN'T supposed to happen stand out way more in your mind which is leading you to this conclusion.
I think I notice patterns too on pokerstars especially it seems to me that I run into a horrific bad beat streak....however there are some days where I will double my bankroll with a little bit of luck and skill, but then the next day will be a losing day. These things do happen but I for one just believe in the math and the probability which is obviously what a computer program (aka pokerstars software) is based off of. Yes it is possible to go on a 4 month losing streak, likely? No, possible? Always. Just remember that as time or hands approaches infinity, your bad and cold streaks balance out to 50%. This is why poker is a game of skill and not luck.
My suggestion to OP would be, stick with it, and remember that every bad beat you get - means YOU are playing well!! NEVER FORGET THAT. Even if you are only 60 to 40 favourite, remember over time if you can keep getting your money in good, you will be a long term winner. Bad beats and cold streaks happen to everyone, pokerstars is not rigged. My belief from that comes from the success stories I hear, on top of looking at sharkscope graphs. There are people out there making thousands of dollars at poker, and I'd bet money that when they started out at the lower levels they took the bad beats just as much as the next guy.
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You really need to talk to Wetts1012. He can explain the math MUCH better than I but, trust me on this, AA vs. Q6 is basically a 50/50 proposition. There's a whole thread discussing it. Might make you feel a little better about some of those "beats."
I'm not sure if this is true, but just what i have noticed watching some ring game tables, and thats that in the higher limit tables 10/20 +, vs the .05/.10 tables...the calibre of players is much greater and therefore i see much better play. On the .05/.10 tables...it's cheap, people will call with just about anything, and why not, for .10 cents to see the flop,leading to alot more bad beats of solid cards, i would call everything as well. But for $10 a flop, i would be alot more selective.
I guess the same could be said for the $1 buy-in MTT's vs the $50 MTT's...on the $1 ones...i see a ton going all-in first hand, and why not...it's only a buck. But on the $50 buy-in MTT's, ya don't see it.
Please be re-depositing....lol