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Don't want to do this anymore......................
I've played on sky now for about a year. In that time there have been good times and some not so good. Recently it seems that I can't win anything on this site and that poor play (not just against me) is being constantly rewarded. In tournaments I am unable to make any progress beyond the first hour. For the past month or so, it has been that any comedian who cares to call me, with any hand, will out draw me. This was no different tonight. I have wondered why so many players seem to be putting all their chips in with such rubbish and then it struck me. They are using the Hot-O-Meter. Tonight I clicked on this and looked at my hands according to the H-O-M. Apparently Q4s is a ''top hand'' as is K7s and Q7s etc........ you see the pattern. The thing is I folded these hands even though the H-O-M said to play them. ........ and they would have won had I taken them to the river. As it was I mistakenly played my usual game, wasn't able to get anyone off a hand and saw my chips dwindle. I then had a double up with AK against A7 (the H-O-M says that one's rubbish) and got back into contention. Then this happened ..........
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalancebrand09 Small blind 100.00 100.00 4527.50 C_B Big blind 200.00 300.00 5255.00 Your hole cards Q A badboy-pj Fold pip614 Fold accccer03 Fold elsadog Raise 600.00 900.00 1690.00 brand09 Fold C_B Call 400.00 1300.00 4855.00 Flop 4 9 10 C_B Check elsadog All-in 1690.00 2990.00 0.00 C_B Call 1690.00 4680.00 3165.00 C_B Show 4 7 elsadog Show Q A Turn Q River 4 C_B Win Three 4s 4680.00 7845.00
Pretty much how all my games have been ending for the past month or so. I don't want to play this game anymore on Sky, I've had enough of it. I know folk will say I need a break etc etc but I don't. I don't understand why this type of play is being rewarded again and again. I've played this game since I was at school (40 years) and online for 6 years and I have never seen anything like this. I've done well on Sky overall but something has changed recently and I don't like it one bit. If this is variance is the weirdest I've seen in all my years playing.
So, I won't waste any more of my time or money playing here, and that's a shame. The community here is brilliant and the inter-action of the analysts and presenters with the players is totally unique. But the poker has become little better than a bingo session for me. I wish everyone well and much success.
PlayerActionCardsAmountPotBalancebrand09 Small blind 100.00 100.00 4527.50 C_B Big blind 200.00 300.00 5255.00 Your hole cards Q A badboy-pj Fold pip614 Fold accccer03 Fold elsadog Raise 600.00 900.00 1690.00 brand09 Fold C_B Call 400.00 1300.00 4855.00 Flop 4 9 10 C_B Check elsadog All-in 1690.00 2990.00 0.00 C_B Call 1690.00 4680.00 3165.00 C_B Show 4 7 elsadog Show Q A Turn Q River 4 C_B Win Three 4s 4680.00 7845.00
Pretty much how all my games have been ending for the past month or so. I don't want to play this game anymore on Sky, I've had enough of it. I know folk will say I need a break etc etc but I don't. I don't understand why this type of play is being rewarded again and again. I've played this game since I was at school (40 years) and online for 6 years and I have never seen anything like this. I've done well on Sky overall but something has changed recently and I don't like it one bit. If this is variance is the weirdest I've seen in all my years playing.
So, I won't waste any more of my time or money playing here, and that's a shame. The community here is brilliant and the inter-action of the analysts and presenters with the players is totally unique. But the poker has become little better than a bingo session for me. I wish everyone well and much success.
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well it saddens me to hear you are going elsa !
as far as weird things go on ,
just hurry back m8 the forum users love you m8y !
i feel for you as i am in the same boat as you, the past month has not been good to me at all (cash tables) i only just scraped a profit from cash last month and the way this month has started i hope i can scrape a small profit.
most of my losses have not been badbeats, everytime i have a big pair i get it HU pre and villan will hit a set or flop a massive draw and they always hit that draw.
everytime i have mid pair do i hit a set? or when i flop nut draw, do i hit? no never, i am also only winning about 30% of any race.
the way its been going i am now starting to play bad poker.
my luck has gotta change soon, any1 no any poker gods names? i will say a little prayer befor bed tonight.
Regards/Respect
Alan
You gave me some good advice not so long ago and even though this will be no way as good, here is mine to you anyway.
PLEASE just take a break! yes I know that is really not what you want to hear right now but trust me, it does help.....ALOT. I cashed in a 50k MTT last Friday on another site where it was a pleasure to play with players giving the odd raise or two the respect it deserves. On here, like you say, there is a large number of 'any two' merchants who seem to hit more times then they probably deserve and I ain't going to bore you with the old variance/probability garbage that other players will come out with but just say.....take a break mate and don't let them get you down. Hopefully, you shall return refreshed and start punishing the bad moves.
GOOD LUCK TO WHATEVER YOU DECIDE. < said with sincerity
soz elsa i checked you out on sharkscope you made over 2k profit
in feb and march this year and lost 250 in april ,
please can i have this bad run on skypoker .
profit 1.75 k over the last 3 months !
i am confused please explain !
Let me tell you something .. go to page 24 of 'Bennys X Files', there's two posts one called , 'The God of Ology', and 'Check Calling' ...
I presume your talking of MTT's, and the thing with this site is, everyone listens to TK and Ed on TV saying,
'You must shove all-in with only 7-10 BB's' ? Now i'm not saying thats wrong but the way people read the message is...
'yeah baby shove all-in, TK says how can they call' ? Which is true in a way, but 95% of players on-line haven't learned the basics of the game, which is chip management in building a stack slowly through the tournament. This principle has always applied to Live tournaments with long blinds ..
It should also apply here but because we play 6 seaters, the hand range is wider and because there's another game to play in 5 mins, some players just shove and if they get lucky fine if not , onwards and upwards to the next game ..... and so we end up with a shove fest of 'bingo' !
The other thing here is most tournaments are speed tournaments around 5- 10 min blinds, so in reality your always playing a crapshoot BUT on the up side your not going to be playing online for hours and hours, maybe 2 , 3 , or 4 hours maximum ..
You cant play a 3 hour tournament without getting lucky at least 8 or more times on the way to a final table but the modern game is played in a way of 'C' bets and 'floating', none of it's new, it's just the new 'lingo' .. the 'IN' phrase .. ...
Get yourself a 'beenie hat' and 'i-pod' .. get real man ... it's a modern world !!
Play cash, u will get what u deserve!
DOHH
'my way' ..'the old way' !
So drum roll for the king of swing,
hand number .... 0255983678 ( i think ) played in the 900gtd Monday
Yet another ' sob story ' don't you whingers ever give up,go cry all the way to the bank. When will you people, (the supposedly? good players) realise it's not an exlcusive club anymore!,you can be beat/knocked out by anyone.Thanks to Sky Poker and the nice Mr Kendal et al,novices/newbies etc now know,that they can beat you at your own game,isn't that nice. As Mr Zimmerman writes " The times they are a'changing ", Kind regards
Very true...thats why good players should play cash and deep stacked tournys for profit (better winrates and less variance) and the main events etc for fun.
hahahaa so did I ... TK knows what I mean, players hear on TV they cant call in this situation it's either Pass or Shove, in the closing stages, so all this talk of shove shove, becomes infectious and before you know it the whole tournament is played with shove-all-ins !! It's the modern way .. (well in some cases)
i had a very bad week last week losing most coin flips etc....
this week has been alot better so far.
just have a break elsadog.
i did for a few days and came back alot more focused.