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duke3016:
Welcome to world of mere mortals John
pokerpops:
--- Quote from: MintTrav on May 23, 2015, 22:11:55 PM ---
I think I should give up online poker. Just had so many bad beats over the last three weeks or so, especially on Stars. Nearly posted this a couple of days ago, but resisted.
Instead, I joined Party and played that DTD thing at different levels last night and tonight and took three more horrific bad beats, losing a huge stack each time. You would be shocked if I posted them, but what"s the point. In fact, what"s the point of playing when you keep losing your stack to people who make hopeless plays?
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The whole point of playing is so that you can induce opponents into making hopeless plays.
So what if occasionally we experience a run of those hopeless plays paying off? Variance sucks, and it may never even out in your lifetime, but you have to keep playing in the anticipation that it will.
MintTrav:
Hadn"t realised you had replied, David. I have always rolled with your view and spurned the internet-is-rigged argument. On this occasion, I couldn"t come up with any explanation for why the people involved had played their hands as they did, unless they knew what was coming. I played one hand where we had both doubled our stacks to 100k early and were both top ten out of a few hundred. He called a big 3-bet pre-flop, called big amounts on the flop and turn, such that he had a third of his chips in by that stage, holding T6 on a K937 board. The position we were in was not the time to start risking his stack on a wild goose chase. An 8 at the end put me back down to 50k starting stack. I managed to get back up by winning a race and then the same thing happened again, almost identically. I played two other tournaments there and pretty much the same thing happened, with people putting very good positions in jeopardy for no logical reason (and receiving the freak card every time). These tournaments were all satellites for a live DTD event and were filled with DTD regs, which was the main reason I was suspicious. I haven"t played on Party since. Think I"m ready to try again now.
MintTrav:
After the lion, yet another example of how hunters with bows have a habit of not getting the job finished cleanly.
MintTrav:
Damn! I just discovered that Friday was National Orgasm Day.
http://whatnationaldayisit.com/day/Orgasm/
And I missed it.
Only 363 days til the next one. :(
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