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lasted 2 hands only
my last little bit of cash entered a bounty hunter lasted 2 hands had AA raised 5 x the bb 1 caller with 89 off flop has 2 9s on it next hand raise up with KQ againn big fav against Q9 K high flop i go all in for last 600 he calls and hits runner runner for flush cannot play these hands any different and will play them the same everytime no lectures as im simply fed up to the back teeth with online poker and flops that are all too common aginst massive pocket prs all im gonna say is it happens far too often anyway enough moaning i gotta live game tonight down the pub in which i do very well and will do again tonight playing no differently as i do online nice knowing yall bye
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If you do play live fairly often, you know that badbeats happen there as well. Maybe you don't see them as often in your live game if the standard is as high as you say, as better play normallly means less badbeats because of less bad calls. You can find thousands of live pro badbeat stories on youtube etc, or see them yourself live. Fact is we just love to remember the bad things that happen to us while not so much on the good.
I mean I can remember badbeats I've had from 2-3 years ago virtually card for card, but do i remember all the times my hand held up fine? Nope. And it's the same for everyone else. You can only really get a good overview of online poker via a large sample size of hands, which is kind of impossible to do with skypoker.
You get the rigged theorists on all sites. Hell the rigged thread on Fulltilt is about 610 pages deep, but not one of the posters there has every actually collected their hand historys to show anything. Just the usual one or two badbeat hands to show their claim is valid, which is ridiculous.
"I mean I can remember badbeats I've had from 2-3 years ago virtually card for card, but do i remember all the times my hand held up fine? Nope. And it's the same for everyone else".
Yes to that and pretty unhealthy it is too. It's strange how poker can make us bitter almost and for most of us, all over a few quid. I have never seen it in other activities as much. Maybe if you missed a pen in the champions league final or something. Poker seems to tap into a very primal part of the brain that is as vulnerable as it is aggressive. It seems so personal.
It would take a very strong-minded person to always reconcile these things. Sometimes i think it's the simple love of gambling that spurs most people to continue. I read a book called The Luck Factor by Richard E. Wiseman to try and understand what luck is and how people perceive it. It's a good read and quite reassuring actually. Also not some esoteric textbook yet very thorough and scientific. I'd recommend it to anyone, not just poker players for example.
Good posts Kam and Shelski, alas they will fall on deaf ears as far as Bullyfish and many others in Area 51 are concerned - they don't post here to learn and improve their game, merely to have a whine and a conspiratorial moan like bad losers generally do.
Simples really
I think it was Wagner from X Factor.
And you're right Bully, I'm very disappointed you're not a total loser.