Skypoker software and pocket pairs

RMadrid174

I'm fairly new to poker, been playing the game for 2 months now. it seems every time I have pocket pairs, someone else on the table has pairs (almost 80% of the times and most of the times better pairs than mine)...is the sky poker software deliberately designed this way to induce agressive pre-flop play?? I've never played in a casino under a human dealer but I doubt that odds are near 80% to have two pocket pairs pre-flop aroud a six-handed table.  just less than an hour ago, AGAIN, I picked up my nice pair of tens, only for someone to show AA after I shoved all in, this has happened 3 times today, the other time they had KK and I had tens again. Should I trust this software is truly random or there's something??,  Forgive my terminology, i'm new to the game

percival09

how large is your sample size?

Lambert180

I walked KK into AA the other day at cash 3 times in the space of 15 minutes. It happens, sometimes you'll get a ton all at once, sometimes you won't see it happen for ages. And don't forget, sometimes you're the guy with AA when they have TT, it's not all 1 sided.

RMadrid174

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how large is your sample size?
Posted by percival09

I'm going through the 500 hands or so that I've played and indeed, it seems a lot of times when I've been dealt pairs, there's at least one more pair waiting for the action. I'm not really complaining because ofcourse sometimes it can be good for me if I pick the stronger pairs, I'm just wondering whether the randomness of the software is somehow tailored to tend towards certain action-inducing situations.

Mohican

In Response to Skypoker software and pocket pairs:

I'm fairly new to poker, been playing the game for 2 months now. it seems every time I have pocket pairs, someone else on the table has pairs (almost 80% of the times and most of the times better pairs than mine)...is the sky poker software deliberately designed this way to induce agressive pre-flop play?? I've never played in a casino under a human dealer but I doubt that odds are near 80% to have two pocket pairs pre-flop aroud a six-handed table.  just less than an hour ago, AGAIN, I picked up my nice pair of tens, only for someone to show AA after I shoved all in, this has happened 3 times today, the other time they had KK and I had tens again. Should I trust this software is truly random or there's something??,  Forgive my terminology, i'm new to the game
Posted by RMadrid174

Don't shove with 10 10 perhaps???? Post hand histories in the poker clinic.

RMadrid174

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I walked KK into AA the other day at cash 3 times in the space of 15 minutes. It happens, sometimes you'll get a ton all at once, sometimes you won't see it happen for ages. And don't forget, sometimes you're the guy with AA when they have TT, it's not all 1 sided.
Posted by Lambert180

I completely agree that it's not one sided, but as you may know some people like me will remember the bad times and not the wins...what I'm worried about is if the software is tailored to induce these multiple pair scenarios just to induce more action i.e shoving etc etc. even when I watch channel 861 sometimes, I seem to see these multiple-pocket pairs a lot....surely a human dealt table can't be like that.

RMadrid174

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In Response to Skypoker software and pocket pairs : Don't shove with 10 10 perhaps???? Post hand histories in the poker clinic.
Posted by Mohican

Thanks, i've learnt my lesson and will try not to shove next time but the problem is that I only play DYM sit&go and at one of the final stages, everyone else is shoving and I doubt they all have AA or KK but they do it a lot, almost every hand has a shove towards the end of these sit and gos and I have no chance. even if I raise, say KJ, i'm usually met with an all-in at the bubble stage and more than often I have to fold and keep losing my chips. I usually don't win anyway and funny enough it seems like it's because I'm not shoving as much as the experts on my table. early stages I'm ok.

Spikelad

RMadrid i have only played live a few times but i have seen at a six-handed table 3 players having pocket pairs and those pairs being Aces Kings and Queens.

It does happen and the players who have way more live experience than me will be able to relate a lot more situations like this.Enjoy your poker mate.

jams88

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In Response to Re: Skypoker software and pocket pairs : Thanks, i've learnt my lesson and will try not to shove next time but the problem is that I only play DYM sit&go and at one of the final stages, everyone else is shoving and I doubt they all have AA or KK but they do it a lot, almost every hand has a shove towards the end of these sit and gos and I have no chance. even if I raise, say KJ, i'm usually met with an all-in at the bubble stage and more than often I have to fold and keep losing my chips. I usually don't win anyway and funny enough it seems like it's because I'm not shoving as much as the experts on my table. early stages I'm ok.
Posted by RMadrid174

This is probably why. The hands that you are seeing go to showdown are the hands where somebody shoves with a pair and is called by somebody with a hand worth calling with eg pair or big ace.

In all seriousness there is no way it could possibly be rigged don't panic

Lambert180

Yeah don't worry about it being rigged cos it just aint...

BUT

Don't stop shoving TT cos of what was said above. There are times when it is bad, but there are plenty of times when it is good too, and short stacked and 4handed (a DYM bubble) can often be one of the good times to do it, depending on the stack sizes of everyone involved.

I'd post a hand or two in the clinic and see if people think it's good to shove or not, then at least if it's right, it's right and you don't need to worry about the result cos that's out of your hand.

percival09

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Yeah don't worry about it being rigged cos it just aint... BUT Don't stop shoving TT cos of what was said above. There are times when it is bad, but there are plenty of times when it is good too, and short stacked and 4handed (a DYM bubble) can often be one of the good times to do it, depending on the stack sizes of everyone involved. I'd post a hand or two in the clinic and see if people think it's good to shove or not, then at least if it's right, it's right and you don't need to worry about the result cos that's out of your hand.
Posted by Lambert180

iyo ;-)

day4eire76

I don't think it has anything to do with the software to be honest. It's unlucky to jam with tens twice and come up against better hands. Has there being any action before you jammed was it a bounty hunter where some people treat any ace as the nuts? We have all been at the end of  (bad calls) but poker is percentage game sometimes the 2, 5 , 10 percentage hit. Just unlucky. If the best hand held up all the time poker would be a boring game.

P.S.

I have all the bad beats lately AA vs 9,10, AA v's 22 (ss),  KK v's 46os

But tomorrow is another day. Just keep getting them in ahead and sooner or later it will turn around.

Run Good.

Pay (day4eire76)

jugglegeek

Lol at 500 hands.

You'd think if Sky had the softwear capabilities to set up coolers to induce action, without creating a statistical deviation from the mean. Then they would also have the softwear capabilities to include: auto top-up, re-sizable tables, sit out next big blind, and a client that could handle more than nine tables without crashing.

For the last time. Online poker is not rigged in any way. But after 500 hands you can't infer anything

ALANSK100

Just LOL  And thanks for the laugh this morning