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Seriously, though, ta for the seat. I'll be sure to promptly redistribute my tenner amongst the wider sky player base.
the highlighted bit im not sure what your meaning. are you suggesting people were raising pre thus not allowing others to limp along for 4p?
well done to those that have been selected this month
Same time next month? ;D
My £25 will soon be made available at the Sky Poker tables on a first come, first serve basis.
Let me firstly clear up the fact that I never said that Sky Poker was rigged. If you feel you need to make a point that it is not rigged that is your choice. If I thought it for a second that it was rigged I would have left Sky Poker a long time ago.
I am merely frustrated when I make the right decisions and probability doesnt back my decisions often enough. I am a firm believer in the mathematical side of the game although I am aware that everyone needs a bit of luck from time to time, and I also am capable of a bit of creative play at times. I am also aware that sometimes you do have to get your chips in when youre behind, especially in drawing situations, but the situations i was referring to were getting all of my chips in pre flop and 9 times out of 10 having the better hand than my opponent and winning less than 5 out of 10 times which cant be right in anyone's book. I just used the last few games as an example as it happened 3 times on the spin.
Im not trying to get lucky. Just dont want to be unlucky. Try not to have to rely on it, but it seems to go a bit too far the other way for my liking.
I am a decent enough player to make a bit of money at the level I play at and if the correct decisions I make
in these situations are supported by the odds which shouldnt be too much to ask then I should do fine but this just doesnt happen.
I cant complain about the last two tables I just played at( I didn't play my best poker ever) and to show that I'm being honest but still not having much luck here are the 3 hands which took me out 5.50 Double Ups:-
Table 1 - All in pre (1700) from the button AJ suited blinds 200/400. BB calls has me covered AQ. Both hit trip As. Lost to kicker. Not great fortune but cant complain.
Table 2 - Button all in pre JJ 1600. Blinds 150/300. Me on BB called had him covered with 2000. I have AQ and pair As on flop ahead. J on turn for his set. I lose. Not great fortune but cant complain.
Table 2 - Down to 400 chips. I shove on the button 8 6. SB folds. Blinds 150/300. BB rightly calls with 44. I flop straight ahead, he hits set 4,5,7. Turn 4 he hits quads. I lose. Cant complain with starting hands but still! Come on!
I play live poker too and although this happens on a very rare occasion, its pretty damn rare. Not every time you sit down at a table. It's not just me it happens too. Just had to say something after seeing it happen too often for too long.
Be good to hear from you again. Cheers!
The first hand: Unlucky. Nothing you can do there.
Hand two: I'm not a DYM expert and it depends largely on how near we are to the bubble but there will be many situations where this call is a mistake. Since we have only to make the top 3, calling is never something we really want to be doing. If we're still 5 or 6-handed then I expect this should be a call but if we're on the bubble it's almost certainly a fold with our stack even if we think we're way ahead of our opponent's range. If you could find this hand in your hand history and post it in the Poker Clinic section, that would probably be beneficial. With the full information you'll get better feedback from more knowledgeable players than me. It may be another cooler but the way DYM's play means it may not be.
Hand 3: Without knowing how you dropped to this stack size it's difficult to say how you've been playing but the truth is that this hand isn't the biggest reason that you lost the DYM, falling to such a short stack is. You needed to survive multiple all-ins to win, so the odds of a particular hand were not the odds of you making the cash.
How the run-out of this particular hand happens isn't relevant. Yes he hit quads but the only odds that matter are the ones when the money goes in. I don't think you should even be shoving this hand, to be honest. You could fold and get at least one more hand before the blinds and chances are it would be better than 8-high. Ultimately you know you're not going to win without a showdown, so 92 would be a better hand to shove with.
Those are 3 particular hands and, as I say, I'm far from the biggest expert on DYM's. However, the one or two "mistakes" you made in those hands (in my opinion) are likely to be ones you're repeating in other games.
When you say that you're only winning 5 out of 10 times when getting it in as a favourite, obviously I can't know if that's just how you're perceiving things at the moment because you're on a bad run of results or if that's actually how it's been. However, I would say that people are predisposed to remember the times we lose more than the times we win and this is particularly true when we feel a sense of injustice. You may be overlooking winning the flips or winning when you're a favourite because that's unremarkable to your mind.
It may also be that you are in fact running below expectations at the moment. However, winning only half of the time when we're a favourite isn't that unusual over a relatively small sample, especially since much of the time we're only getting it in as a 55%-70% favourite anyway. It's unusual for us to get it in as a bigger favourite than that and runs of variance like this are, unfortunately, natural to the game. This variance only really evens out over the course of a very long period.
I know what you're saying about this not happening every time when you play live but you have to remember that when you play live you probably play a third as many hands as you would per table online. Also, recreational players tend to play a lot tighter when playing live. Usually the games they play live are higher stakes than those they play online so they don't want to risk playing weaker hands. This means that you don't see so many confrontations when playing live that don't involve big hands. Online you see plenty of those hands and sometimes the weak hand does win. I would also assume that you don't play DYM's when you're playing live since I've never seen a live DYM, lol. This would also go some way to explaining the difference.
I've heard it said a thousand times that online poker isn't the same as live or the odds aren't the same. I've never seen anyone produce any evidence and if that evidence existed, I don't think the poker sites would survive for long. There are things to worry about when playing online poker, especially in formats like DYM's, but the fairness or integrity of the software really isn't one of them... unless you used to play on Absolute poker/Ultimate Bet.
Thanks for the polite response. As I said, most people posting this sort of thing don't tend to be reasonable.