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Why do we get moved around after big pots?
Whats the philosophy when moving people off of tables? I understand tables need to be balanced but its really frustrating when you have a bad beat by someone and then they or you are moved straight after? You dont even get the oppurtunity to win your chips back this is something that should be looked into. It'd save me alot of angry threads aswell lol thanks.
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If there is a formula... it sucks!
I know it's a bit annoying but I'm sure it used to happen on FullTilt too because I remember someone on there saying to me that you gotta get a double up early on in the big tourneys otherwise you'll be missing out on playing against the big stacks and youll struggle to build up a big stack playing against loads of short stacks. I'm not saying that's true but it's what some guy said.
I dunno about you but I don't like being moved to a table where everyone has me covered by about 8 to 1 and I get half a dozen callers to my AK shove which means I get knocked out cos its a big family pot and someone hits bgiger than me.
I'm not going to get into a debate about it, but people sometimes believe Posts like that, & that's dangerous.
Poker is not always a fair game, but it's swings & roundabouts. You know, sometimes it works against us, sometimes it works for us. It behoves us to remember BOTH, & that we can't have our cake & eat it.
Do you REALLY expect the rules of poker to take into account the fact you've just lost (or won.....) a pot to a table-companion? Be a neat bit of software, that.
Does a big stack sometimes end up being moved to a table full of Med and small stacks? Yes.
When you take a bad beat do you sometimes get moved? Yes.
If you dominating a table do you sometimes get moved to a table with someone that seems to get the better of you the most of the time. Yes
Etc, Etc.
IMO that is because it is Random.
Is it random that the 'software' here on Sky incorrectly (IMO) moves you AFTER you have just been on the button on one table onto a table where you are/or will be next hand, one of the blinds? In live poker, in most venues at least, is it not the player coming up to his BB to move NOT the button?
This has been brought up on numerous occasions before.
As for the OP, this is random.
I used to be a TD and in my experiance its completely random live and online. I used to have a computer tell me the name of the player to move. It only knew the structure, av stack and names of players and where they where currently seated. Never knew their stacks, certainly live its too much work for anyone to update a stack everytime somone wins a pot.
On 3 seperate occassions i had two tables left, one had an av stack double of the av stack while the other was obviously half.
It happens/
Why do threads get moved after big questions are asked?
Always moves me to the table where the big stacks are.
The biggest stack is always to my immediate left.
It ALWAYS moves me when I have just posted a big blind.
And puts me straight into the big blind on the next table.
If I am totally dominating a fish on my table, it will move him away.
In a bounty hunter it will always move me away from a table of shortstacks in case I win a bounty.
In the bigger tournies I am always up against the top guys.
When I am moved it NEVER sits me in my favourite seat (this is just to try to tilt me)
When multitabling it will synchronize the moves, by moving me on four tables together it tries to confuse me.
It always does this exactly when I nip to the kitchen to put the kettle on for maximum effect.
When I am busy in the chatbox I am always moved away if the conversation is interesting.
And it ALWAYS times it perfectly so my last comment appears on the new table where nobody knows wtf I am talking about.
It is obvious that someone has taken a lot of trouble to write this software just for me, and in some ways I see that as a compliment. Maybe the OP should look at it in the same way...it is just a cross we have to bear !
This really did make me laugh out loud! Its so funny I want to kiss you! x
Edit: Ok I got a bit carried away there, but it is funny.
And why has this been moved to area 51 ya sky plonkers lol, try and at least put threads in there correct place - and this aint it!!!
Come on Penguin please try harder lol
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The size of the chip stacks is NOT part of the software prgramme that deals with Table Balancing, either at Sky Poker, or any other Online Site. Fact.