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I just got.....again
Im sick of losing to XXX hands. i was short stacked in a sit-n-go and push all in with JJ and got called with 53 suited, i hit trips on the flop but lost to a flush after the river. I cant believe that i have lost another game of poker to a s**t hand like this. I thought that i was just being paranoid but its happened to me too often now to be coincidence.
I've had so many beats on sky poker that are far worse than this tho, i even lost with four of a kind to a higher four of a kind when the odds of me losing were less than 1%. i'll give sky poker a chance as ive not been here that long but it seems to me that you lose far to often when you are clear favourite to win the hand. If this trend continues i may have to leave and go back to pkr.
I've had so many beats on sky poker that are far worse than this tho, i even lost with four of a kind to a higher four of a kind when the odds of me losing were less than 1%. i'll give sky poker a chance as ive not been here that long but it seems to me that you lose far to often when you are clear favourite to win the hand. If this trend continues i may have to leave and go back to pkr.
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...... Being a favourite gives you a better chance of winning, not a divine right. This is true of all poker sites and i can honestly say i've had my gripes with this site but honesty would never be one of them. The cards ARE random, The game IS fair.
A few things you may want to consider:
1) We never remember the beats we hand out, only those you receive
2) As above we soon forget the good run of cards holding up for us the minuate that we get outdrawn
3) This is SKY, They could not afford to be caught up in a "Scam" case with their site as they have a reputation, and the Skybet, Skyvegas & Skybingo brands to protect.
Like i say, not a pop at you but out of ALL online sites i beleive that you are safe from being scammed playing at this one
just a quick note from me -
I'm sorry to hear about your bad beat but i have edited the title of this thread as it was unsuitable for this Community.
Thank you
Again as i stated in my first post please don't take this as a personal pop at you. i speak far more generally as there are SO MANY of these posts on here (and every other poker forum, for every other poker site, anywhere in the world).
I've done the same as you, been mortified at the calls i've gotten and berated the players that dare do this but at some point in your poker life a switch gets turned on, you stop thinking about the beat and only concentrate on reloading and taking advantage of the weakness you have been shown. Now i'm no master at this yet and i'm still prone to tilt but i'm getting better at seeing the brightside of this as the beats go by. This is why it's important to be rolled for your level, because when they get lucky you want to be able to take it on the chin, reload and go get your's back with a pile of theirs. (another aspect of the game i didn't fully understand at one point but the 2 go hand in hand)
As far as bad beats goes, i've lost to rivered higher quads when i had quads, i've lost with the nut flush Or what i considered to be) to a 1 outer gut shot str8 flush draw and just about any other variation of beat you can think of (but i've also hit a few 1 outers myself)
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not being funny but you do seem to all in every time you think your ahead.
first one if your going all in blind with aq 4 out of 10 wins as you state in the thread is about the right odds imo
2nd one youve put him on an ace youve bet hes raised so its fair to assume he has one and why are you calling the pre flop raise with k8 off?
with the stack youve got your all in or fold never flat call a raise in that situation
So what?? I understand that, my point is that I have been dogged all day long these three examples are just some examples of the beats i've had today. I lost 7 tourneys today when i've went in with better hands than my opponents and still lost. Don't tell me about good calls etc. i wouldn't care to much if hadn't lost all of these games but its happened too often today for me to believe that it is just bad luck. i feel that i have been cheated out of money by skybet. ever since i was chat banned I have been losing badly like this, skybet must have pushed the badboy button that makes me lose most of the time.
cant belive you got chat banned you seem such a calm well balance chap
gl in the future keep the all ins going
However, it doesn't last long and perhaps the next few days will be kinder to you.
GL
this site is the pits. it happens day after day to me , nearly every single game, just read some of my posts, see my comments during games.
dont listen to all these tos sers on here , i dont think half of them play anyway.
keep us updated please .
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Steve... ive missed you mr judge!!! you always crack me up. You sure you wern't a juror once and are getting it confused??
much love x (keep it up)
If you class AQ < JJ and K8 < AK as "beats" then you are deluding yourself.
The final example is indeed a "beat" but given your very small stack size it is a mandatory call pre-flop once he has decided to limp UTG.
I think I may be qualified to talk about bad beats. It's been documented on here before so I won't bore everyone again with the gruesome details, but, after 14 hours of play, I had my flopped Quad Kings beaten by Quad Aces in the WCOOP main event (world championships of on-line poker) 3 years ago. I cashed well enough, but he went on to win the tournament and $247,000.
This kind of thing happens for one main reason - because it can! I've suffered with bad beats on Sky too. Calls with low value cards will hit proportionately and when they do you will remember it. It's human nature, you don't remember each time your AA holds up and wins but you remember when it loses. It's programmed into the most ancient part of our brains that we remember events that cause us pain in order to survive. Three days before my kings were crushed I won a $50,000 tournament. I can't remember a single hand from that game but I'll never ever forget my 'bad beat.'
The information and help given by others here is spot on. I went through a bad patch a while ago and couldn't do anything right, but after a rest from the game it righted itself. Variance causes us to change our approach to the game and not make the best plays. This makes matters worse and we go into a downward spiral and look for other reasons rather than seeing it for what it is.
Take a break from the game, read some poker books, and come back refreshed. It will work wonders I promise you.
the day you signed up for skypoker ,
skyrich was looking after things that day,
you were very unlucky had your name been ,
bill, bob , john , joe or numerous others,
skyrich would have put you in the winning circle list,
you poor thing he does not like guys named sean,
maybe if you reregister and pretend you are a bill , bob , john or joe .
you could get in the winning circle.
i said nothingggggggggg !!!
Are you trying to be funny?? If so it was a poor effort.
AQ V's JJ - Not A Beat - You shove it all in pre flop and get called by a pocket pair. It's a standard Race that you don't win. the fact that you make trips on the flop is irrelevant as is the fact that your oppo catches one of his 2 jacks on the turn to get the house. You didn't raise then take a flop and put the money in while you were infront so it's not a beat.
K8 off - A K - Not A Beat - You call a raise with junk (and the fact that it's a min riase should possibly set alarm bells ringing that he has a big hand and wants you in). You flop 2 pair as does your oppo.... only his 2 are better. At no point in time were you ahead in this hand, you have the worst hand going in and coming out and rightly so
JJ v's 53 suited - There is no player on the site that is not going to call you with any 2 and flushes do happen, a better question is how have you been left with so few chips
Your not happy but on the hands you have posted i can see nothing wrong or unusual. To lose a race, a hand where your dominated and to get yourself outdrawn when you have got into such bad shape in a tournament you have no fold equity is all pretty standard stuff. If you don't understand that then this is not the game for you, if you think the world is against you, your playing great and it's every body elses fault then THIS IS NOT THE GAME FOR YOU..... And if you can't accept beats (although the above examples don't really qualify) even if your having a prolonged run of them then guess what ???????? YOU GOT IT !!!
On a serious note you have to come to terms that this will happen because i guarantee they happen everywhere