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big chip stack v smaller chip stack
Been playing on sky for years but even i am starting to think they are taking the preverbial now.
If you have A K and a bigger chip stack has AQ he WILL 2 out of three times hit his queen when he calls you.
If you have KQ and a bigger chip stack calls you with KJ he will hit his J 2 out of three times.
After just playing yet another game where the big chip stack calls with a lesser hand and hits it's starting to not be annoying but predictable.
trip 7s being called by A 2 with a 4,5 flop is almost garunteed that the 3 comes (and it did).
Fully aware of races against two overs and odds etc but this just DEFy's the ODDS
Every one who plays know you get people who get lucky but the odds over time should not change.I put it to all the people with smaller BR's log the amount of times you are beaten by the bigger chip stack by a lesser hand and it will dawn on you something is not right.Please do not spurt range and pot odds at me i am fully aware of these.AA/KK should win 80% of the time but this does not hold true against a bigger chip stack.Why does the bigger chip stack seem to have an unfair advantage.I know people sugguest it is certain people but i can say i don't find it is the person but the size of the stack.Yet again tonight 2 games busted 4 times by people with lesser hands but bigger chipstacks (rebuy before you ask).Losing 4 times on the trot to lesser hands when all in go's against all odds.It happens most nights now! Is anyone else finding this?I'm no dummy and i'm not a brilliant poker player thats for sure but i do understand odds and this to me does not add up.Now starting a log as i am absolutely positive RNG is broken or i am the unluckiest player ever.
If you have A K and a bigger chip stack has AQ he WILL 2 out of three times hit his queen when he calls you.
If you have KQ and a bigger chip stack calls you with KJ he will hit his J 2 out of three times.
After just playing yet another game where the big chip stack calls with a lesser hand and hits it's starting to not be annoying but predictable.
trip 7s being called by A 2 with a 4,5 flop is almost garunteed that the 3 comes (and it did).
Fully aware of races against two overs and odds etc but this just DEFy's the ODDS
Every one who plays know you get people who get lucky but the odds over time should not change.I put it to all the people with smaller BR's log the amount of times you are beaten by the bigger chip stack by a lesser hand and it will dawn on you something is not right.Please do not spurt range and pot odds at me i am fully aware of these.AA/KK should win 80% of the time but this does not hold true against a bigger chip stack.Why does the bigger chip stack seem to have an unfair advantage.I know people sugguest it is certain people but i can say i don't find it is the person but the size of the stack.Yet again tonight 2 games busted 4 times by people with lesser hands but bigger chipstacks (rebuy before you ask).Losing 4 times on the trot to lesser hands when all in go's against all odds.It happens most nights now! Is anyone else finding this?I'm no dummy and i'm not a brilliant poker player thats for sure but i do understand odds and this to me does not add up.Now starting a log as i am absolutely positive RNG is broken or i am the unluckiest player ever.
Comments
bob
It will seem as the big stack always seems to win if all you remember is the hands were you get busted out! Its called selective memory and lots of poker players seem to suffer from it!
Wondered how long it would be before someone mentioned being a big chipstack.
My post is observational it is what i am observing as i play, or what i have seen as i have played over the last 3/4 months etc.As for trip seven on an A,4 5 flop lol that would be difficult but not actually what my post sais.
I am all for ups and downs in poker and all for AA being busted perhaps three times in a row it should theorectically even itself out over far more hands however I am not just suffering this as a player i am observing it on tables I am railing.Going all in against a big chipstack when you are deep into a tourney is proving to be time and time again "get your coat time".
This is not a bad beat post some you win some you lose,I was quite happy playing 5 quid games but TBH i just cannot coninue doing that under these what i see as present conditions. Back to playing donc poker as i get the distinct feeling something somewhere is unbalanced.My personal opinion of course and not one i have formed over one or two games.I've been watching it happen on games i'm not playing.As for selective memory possible when having been dumped out of a tourney but not really if your monitoring tables.I stand by my point of view and have gone back to playing pound tables while i ponder what to do.Poker is fun but i'm not just throwing money away there are perfectly reasonable charities
On the up side i have found a way to beat the big chip stack.Push all in and cross your arms ,legs,toes fingers and hope he folds.If he calls you are out full stop.
Yes they have the chips to make the call but why does this affect the odds (it shouldn't) and if you are in a race and he has two over cards you are surely 53/47 on and with one over the odds must be more in your favour so why do you lose over 66 percent of the time.
I/m not the only person noticing this by the way i haven't worked out how to include split pots in this either as that seems to happen too much as well.Basically having the bigger chip stack in an all in scenario gives you an advantage but why? Am watching other final tables so as not to seem biased ie it's just my rubbish play.
Not convinced so far and if anything this is getting worse.IMO.If i see this even out i will put my hands up and say bah i was wrong but more and more i'm convinced i'm right.Have yet to work out how the hell this benifits sky poker admittedly lol.Not losing my house and play for fun but somehow me thinks i am going to have to seriously adjust my game to accomodate the phenomenem.hmmmmmmmmmmm
Thats according to my count over the last few weeks in dym and mtt
It's not just me some thing is wrong wrong wrong
please if i go outside and my hair gets wet do not tell me it is not raining.
it's not right it's fixed and anyone who thinks its not an idiot lol
Must have been raining her hair is wet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bScvENc9u8YAs promised called by the big chip stack who has nothing what so ever.
Admitedly you could say the over bet was because i had nothing and may have been a giveaway but he is calling with ten high and a 4d but he submits a major part of his chip stack whilst he has nothing what so ever.
Needles to say i already know if he calls me he will hit.He does call me and of course he hits.He is going to hit over 70 percent of the time.
I don't make this up this happens.
Now my bet is poor and would not have been made if it wasn't for a substantial part of his chip stack I admit it would be a give away if someone is sat on ak kq but calling on 10 4.(he's more than entitled to but commit a large part of his chip stack on ten high and hitting the flush i could have had the 6 of diamonds lol.he has called because he has the big chip stack and knows he has a 70 percent chance of winning.
This is not a conspiracy this is observation.
Most of the night again dumped out by silly calls by big chipstacks always winning(well a ridiculously high percentage of the time)
someone tell me i am wrong here, someone tell me that what i am watching is not happening game after game after game.
Yet again miles ahead big chip stack takes down the pot.Getting just a little bit tired of this.
Seriously i am not noticing this just on my hands i spend the whole game looking for the amount of times the big chip stack takes down the pot when behind.
It's meant to happen less than 50 percent of the time and this is not happening.
if i am ahead then i must be over 50 percent to win the pot so i should win perhaps 51-55 percent MINIMUM
I lose over seventy percent of the time and this is not selective memory as i am watching others doing it all the time.
How when i have trips and a big chip stack go's all Can i not call some one? please tell me how i am supposed to walk away from this.
I Give up
This is very suspect.I can fully understand why you would not print someones name and address but not their avatar name.Do you really think my name is snorky? Or is it because we would see the same old names appearing in the won hand box hmmmm.Not saying i have found this but the big chip stack thing is happening.I don't mind getting beaten by a better hand and i don't mind taking a bad beat every now and again but there is something wrong here by which the big chip stack has an advantage no matter what cards he has.
Please by all means explain!I have waited for someone to sugguest anything remotely sensible but all i get is the sky poker team saying "no honestly this does not happen it will even out".
I play this site six days a week.It does i'm afraid.
Before the world decends and has a pop at me.
1. This is the conspiracy part of the web site and it would be rubbish if I said it was brilliant all the time.
2. I can only go by what i observe.
3. I only ever write on the site when I lose (am far to busy congratulating myself on being the next negrano when i win)
4. I expect to win every game i play
5. If i don't win it is no way a reflection on how i played, it is because you all cheat.
6. I Have already bought into the next game as i have calmed down. Sky now owe me 5p from the last game as i only won £2.25 and the game cost me £2.30.
7. If i don't win this game i am quiting sky for the 3rd time this week.I mean it! i may not even play till boxing day
Man never walked on the moon. I am without doubt the best poker player in my house and I really must see a shrink someday.