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why are there so many bad beats on this site
I have been playing poker for a while now on a few sites and just cant see why there are so many sick beats on sky poker. does anyone else feel like this or is it just me? I understannd variance and all but.....
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Every site I've played on has its share of people on forums some where saying how its rigged, or they've been doom switched, or etc etc etc. Not to mention half the "bad beats" you see them then post are not bad beats but very, very standard outdraws that had a fairly good statistical chance of happening. Poker has its element of luck, and so if it can happen it will happen at some point, and the higher the chances the more often it will.
So unless you have 50,000-100,000 hands as a sample to show as evidence that something is statistically happening incorrectly I'm betting you are like most people that don't relise the human mind remembers badbeats far more than all the times their hand holds up. Very little or no benefit for a site to run unfairly against XXX person as they gain nothing really from it.
Over the Blackpool wkd, I saw J8 beat KK and AA in a 3 way all in by rivering a straight!
Also saw some coolers like a royal flush against the nut house and set over set.
It's just poker innit! Live or online, here or other sites, tis all the same...
But in defence of sky i watched the live SPT Blackpool this what i saw A7 against 10 10
Flop A 10 7 The guy with 10s shoves A7 calls cant remember turn but did not help anyone, River A. guy with A7 wins AAA77 Now thats a bad beat and was live play not something you would expect to see in a live comp.
just keep grinding away and try to play your hands different. Raise is the key on here but not early on in a game just call all the way across if it cheep enough, then see where you are.
Good luck
I blame Fredsgirl for encouraging me to try every flavour of sambuca and coffee flavour liqueur in the world...
Also it was a chance to bust solack!
You've just got to hope that very soon you are the player that hits the miracle beat!
How can people not realise that for every time a bad beat gets received, someone has just given you that bad beat, and in the future it may be you giving as appose to receiving.
Some people see it as a bad thing, but the thing is, the better you get, the more bad beats you're gonna receive and the less often you'll give them out, because you'll be getting it in good more often than a bad player.