Variance my ass...
Was playing a 10 player Double up tourney today, on WInner.
Player tried to bluff me early, so I doubled up on his chips with a pair of Qs (not pocket)
Then, flopped QQ, hit Q 7 3 rainbow on the flop. bet 5x the big blind
Turn was a 9, guy went all -in. I called
River is a K, twit turns over J-10s
Two hands later flop AA, late position, one raised half his stack.
I put him all-in, he shows 1010
You guessed it 10 on the river.
What is the point of poker if you can't play ANY cards?
Don't give me variance crap. This happens to me every day, 8 games out of 10.
I am usually in with the best and usually lose.
Player tried to bluff me early, so I doubled up on his chips with a pair of Qs (not pocket)
Then, flopped QQ, hit Q 7 3 rainbow on the flop. bet 5x the big blind
Turn was a 9, guy went all -in. I called
River is a K, twit turns over J-10s
Two hands later flop AA, late position, one raised half his stack.
I put him all-in, he shows 1010
You guessed it 10 on the river.
What is the point of poker if you can't play ANY cards?
Don't give me variance crap. This happens to me every day, 8 games out of 10.
I am usually in with the best and usually lose.
Comments
Ur doing it wrong!
No it's for morons like you you have nothing helpful to say, but like to shoot from the lip with no information. Either get your facts straight, or shut up.
'Ur doing it wrong!'
Actually, I am doing it right, it's the idiots doing it wrong that win, though.
UR getting warm tough guy...
And you're getting it wrong.
it's easy, when you react emotionally like this and can't accept that you'll lose like this a % of the time the problem is you, not varience
Edit: I mean you said you couldn't play any cards, there's no way to fix that
If anyone knows the secrets it's them.
Go play backgammon. It will teach variance. It's the ultimate game of probability.
Mark
I've probably been playing poker as long as many of you, I've played 10's of thousands of hands, etc.
I know what 'normal' variance is, and the math is not an issue.
People don't leave forums because the forum lacks sympathy, they leave because the forum is full of idiots that only hang out to pick on other people.
I can see why this forum is so little used.
LOL, no, you clearly do not know.
My bad... didn't know you were trolling....
Heh, missed AGAIN
If you are getting beat that badly, every day, then you are a retard for playing.
However, I assume you mean you get those beats IN BETWEEN the odd win here and there?
Let me put it this way, if you got hit by those beats, as often as I do, you'd be the one typing this.
The problem you all make is that you think everyone is as bad as you are, and therefore complaining about the ORDINARY beats.
I am complaining about the EXCESSIVE number of beats, the 20-30 of them per day over your measly 5-10.
If you really think anyone is dumb enough to come here and ask about NORMAL play, then please, move on.
To add to it, I just played another card dead game, went in (short stack) with K-Js and lost to a 35os. He hit a straight. Out in 5th.
IF you all can't tell me how to avoid the beats, because you can't avoid them either, then I am obviously asking the wrong crowd.
How about this. You pick a day this week and every bad beat you get post it here. Ill post every bad beat ( or at least what i consider a bad beat) and we will compare. I play 1000's of hands a day, if you gonna try to tell me you take me beats then me Id like to see it, variance would suggest I take more as I play more hands then you per day, undoubtingly.
BTW when I say 5-10 Im talking about 5-10 beats where im at least 65% when I get it in, anything less really isnt that bad.
It's not about toatal number of beats, its the RATIO of beats to hands or games. If you play 1,000s of hands per day and only see 5-10 bad beats, your doing a hell of a lot better than I am.
but as I said if you want too see bad beats Ill post them all day if you want. Like clearly you cant handle this game if your actually this upset about losing 3 hands today lol
The fact that you would say something like this shows that you'll have trouble playing this game for long.
So you ran poorly a few weeks? Man up and get over it. if you start feeling the poker sites are rigged, deal with your issues on that too or stop playing. no one here is gonna pretend like you're unluckier than the next guy.
Edit: I've taken the ultimate beat btw ^^' QQ v JJ aipf, board Q73JJ
OP, move up to where they respect your raises!
This post is just LOL ironic
Which is meaningless, since you still miss the point. I consider a bad beat as anytime you go in with the best and lose. That is the definition of a bad beat.
There are of course, worse bad beats than others, but as I have pointed out, call them coin flips,if you want, I still lose the vast majority of even 50/50 hands.
Whether you want to post them or not, is up to you, since you miss the point that I had ALL these paritcular bad beats in THREE (3) games. Now if you want me to I will list ALL my bad beats over the last 60 games, and then you can see if your bad beat ratio is worse than mine. Until then your just arguing without half the information.
As for the rest of you, whether you sympathize or not, if you don't have the numbers at hand, you have no basis to judge my play, and as long as you keep ignoring the fact that I have been playing for many years, online, and I don't have this issue playing LIVE games, then there is no point in talking to you.
You all know your normal variance, and your arguing that mine is the same as yours, yet no one has actually asked any numbers. Maybe mine is the same, I don't know, that is what I am asking.
However, the overall tone of this site is confrontational, not helpful, so I am not hopeful it will be of any use to me.
Oh and you do use Poker tracker or equivalent right? It should be easy to see what's working and what's not.