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Is there the slightest possibility of reigning in the long silly draws please?
Post required? It's all in the headline me thinks?
. . . I can understand why some players do take it a tad personally . . . .
. . . I can understand why some players do take it a tad personally . . . .
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Being the curious type, I've been trying to quantify the succesion of outcomes that have all but wiped out my account balance in the last week or so - there aren't enough diodes on my calculator to display the answer!
Still, game of skill isn't it?
This'll be the last I'll be playing or posting for a while as I'm off to look for a crow-bar to jemmy open the gas meter. I'm also going to read the New York State judicial ruling made recently that in the opinion of the Judge, Poker is a game of skill and not a game of chance. He obviously never played online before coming to that conclusion.
Toodle-pip.
As to the figures, don't you scratch your head just a bit when you hit a series of outcomes that should, in theory, only happen once in "x" hundred hands, but put in an appearance with much more regular frequency? Or are you one of the "it's all part of the game" types who just shrug it off and get on with the next game?
The odds of flipping a coin 100 times and getting 70 or more heads/tails are about 0.004%
Play more
I'm reasonably stoic about losing as a 60/40 favourite, but when the winning hand is one of the least likely to be dealt, and this, or a similar odds draw, has happened for the third time in rapid succession the rant valve blows.
As to the other contributor's response of "play more", he's right. But as I've discussed with BJ players on another board, even when you've finally played enough to hit your EV average all of this variance nonsense doesn't go away - it just represents less of the total lifetime amount put across the felt.
Good cards all.
So last night at the casino on a 50/1 cash table i had JJ.After some pre flop raises its heads up and the flop came J 10 9 all spades. All the money went in on flop ( shortish stack) the guy turns over 78 spades ,so do I think to myself wow he had a 15000/1 chance(made up figure ) of hitting that hand or that pre flop his 67 will beat JJ 22 % of the time.
At no point was your opponent 101/1 to win the hand.
If you start thinking about the 101/1 instead of the 40/60 then you are concentrating on the wrong things and start to think its a CONSPIRACY rather than that in poker it happens both live and online.