I haven’t posted since Tuesday, so I thought I’d give a quick update of how it has been going at the tables. In one word…shitty! The bad beats are coming in from all directions. I flop 2 pair and someone calls me down going runner runner for a bigger two pair. I flop the nut straight and someone hits a 3 outter on the river for a bigger straight. I flop a full house with the hammer and someone spikes an ace on the river with his A7 for a bigger full house. I flop trips and someone calls me down hitting a 2 outter on the river for a full house. These are just a couple of examples. The other day in a span of 10 minutes I got beat on the turn or river 5 times by someone with 5 outs or less.
It’s simply impossible to come out ahead when the other players are pulling cards out of their ass like this. It’s at times like this when it really makes you wonder if online poker is rigged. I know it’s now, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit the thoughts enter my head once in awhile. I can’t complain about the horrible players I guess, but it would be nice if my monsters would hold up to those drawing dead (2-4 outs) once in awhile. It’s extremely hard to recover from losing a 20 BB pot that you were the clear favorite in. Especially when it happens more than once.
Sorry about the bad beat whining, but I needed to get it out of my system somehow. Screaming at my monitor hasn’t seemed to help at all.
Nick Momrik 
I understand that Nick but the kind of stupidity ONLY exists online and the same kind of stupidity can get you murdered at Casinos/house games.
Not even at my $0 – $0 prize money home family game would anyone call one bet with 48 offsuit with a preflop raised AA2 flop. And the first player was out so there wasn’t even a risk of becoming the beer-bitch for the night!
Hey, how about the time when I had TT, he had 99. Flop comes out T9x. Turn: 9, River: T.
I was happy I won but WOW! The poor sucker must’ve just made a cashout. That was early in the days. I am sure he is convinced that IT IS RIGGED.
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Then don’t play!
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I don’t. But I have to warn others.
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Nick2… u are the man…. Nick do us all a favour and SHUT THE FUCK UP! Online poker is rigged.. they do want it all. All these counter-arguments seem less than supplementary Nick. I play ALOT of online poker and about 3 months ago I decided I was hooked so I’d have to test my luck online.
So far I am up around $700 simply because I make an extremly large amount of money by joining a site for the 1st time. *I’ve joined about 5 instead of 1 because of my belief it is rigged. 1st I joined partypoker and made 50$ into $850 in the period of 4 hours. Obviously I was ecstatic so I cashed out $350US.
Y DIDNT I CASH IT ALL OUT? because im a retard.
My strategy online is to place the minimum into a table *it goes against all my poker beliefs* but it allows me to go all in very easily and if I believe I am the favourite. About 90% of the time I was the favourite where the other player would have to hit his card in order to win and he hit it about 70% of the time.
POKERSTARS, PARTYPOKER, ROYALVEGAS, POKERROOM *DO NOT PLAY POKERROOM UNLESS U WANNA LOSE FASTER THAN ANY OTHER
I won 400$US yesterday on Royalvegas cashed it all out except 100US and lost about 90% of hands I was the favourite.
Here is the last hand I will ever play online.
k8 heads up… i raise 10$ *im very aggressive *** THIS WAS HEADS UP
J 8 7 —> middle pair heads up is more powerful than u think
bet 10$… he calls…. turn card is a 4
im all in… HE CALLS
river card is a Queen
he has Q 4. 2 pair.
This didn’t happen twice or 3 times… same shit over and over. People say ride the bad beats. I’d rather prevent them because there is a difference between a bad beat that doesnt make sense and a bad beat where he was chasing something and hits something else.
I’m taking my money and running. I have no hard proof but I know when im getting screwed.
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I’m closing comments on this post. If you losing players want to whine about losing, go do is somewhere else.
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