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this site is **** fixed
bogeyman75
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Yours in poker
1. It is natural to remember the bad beats and forget the suckouts. No-one loses to the river card 90% of the time. We all have times when it feels like it.
2. The **** in the thread title-is it "finally"?
Not exaggerating? I bet you are.......
First up, mathematically, if you have, say, 2-2 v villain's A-K, for every card that falls on the board, the chances of your hand remaining ahead reduce. It's simple maths.
So many players pluck this figure out of the air, & it's almost always either 90% or 99%. I'm inclined to believe this is not true. "Quite often", yes, 90%, no. It's the way our mind works. We remember the painful beats & forget the occasions when we outdraw others. We just do, it's human nature. And sometimes it's because we play the hand badly. If we check it down because the board looks scary, then of course our chances of holding lessen. Whereas if we bet, we protect our vulnerable hand.
You say you "lost 90% of your hands on the river" the last 7 or 8 days.
Here's the deal then - produce the evidence - hand numbers or Tournament names & dates - & I'll ask the Office to check if you are correct. And if you are, I'll arrange a Free MTT Entry for you. And if you are wrong, you have to post some Hand Histories, & I'll ask some of the better players to review how you played the hand so that you can improve your game.
Can't say fairer than that.
I can say it's definitely - I almost wrote "90% sure".......... - NOT anything to do with the RNG or the software. It's just how poker works.
You might also try playing PLO, or even 5 card PLO, where the best hand pre-flop is meaningless really. In PLO, for example, we can flop the absolute nuts, but the correct play is to fold to any bet. Could you do that?
As someone who has played poker (badly) for a very long time, I completely understand your frustration by the way. However, finger pointing, or blaming the site, won't help us one bit. We have to 1) learn to understand better how poker works, & 2) try to improve how we play. Use the Forum to do both, lots of helpful folk here. Just coming on here & saying "90% of my hands lose on the river" is not going to help because it's not true, & all it does is open you up to cruel jibes.
Come on, work with us & we'll help improve your understanding of poker, & how you can play it better.
Over to you.
Almost certainly true.
But yeah, whatever the % of you losing on the river it's just variance. I've had some brutal variance in PLO over the years I've played it where I have ended up losing flips (or slightly ahead) scenarios 90% of the time. But then I've also had times where it feels like I'm winning those spots 90% of the time. That's just poker, and variance.
I'm in shock.