Jun 23 2009
The Kind Of Hands That Make You Want To Stop Playing Online
I hear people complain all the time about how online poker is “rigged”. My standard response to this is “If you think you’re being cheated – don’t play.” This happens to be my stance for a live game as well. I’m a firm believer that online sites simply CANNOT allow their players to be cheated or before they know it they will no longer have players. Personally I think that people complain about these bad beats cause they’re seeing so many more hands per hour. Those kind of hands WILL happen if you play long enough… they just have a tendency to come more frequently online (cause you’re playing more hands).
I’m certainly not prone to these online bad beats – here are a couple from my latest session.
Hand #1
I’m on the button with A7 of diamonds. When it comes to me it’s unraised so I put in a standard “3 times the big blind” raise. I get called by the big blind and we’re off to the flop.
BEAUTIFUL! With the exception of my opponent holding AA in the big blind I’ve just flopped the nuts. He makes a standard bet which I raise and puts him into the tank. He uses just about all of his time before he puts me all in. Hmm. At this point I’m putting him on one of three hands – a 7 with a bad kicker, a big ace or a flush draw. Based on the way he’d played up till this point in the tourney I don’t have him on aces. I call and he shows a pair of twos. Yep… you read that right, twos. Not sure what he was thinking other than maybe he was putting me on a flush draw or a bluff of my own.
As I’m sure you can tell from the title of this post, this hand did not turn out well for me. Of course the turn and river came like this:
I sat there in stunned silence as I got the pop up telling me my tournament was over. I don’t even want to begin to think about what the odds of that beat are.
Hand #2
In another tournament I’m once again on the button and this time getting low on chips. I’ve been trying to play but the cards just haven’t been coming my way. I find myself with KQ of clubs on the button and make a standard raise. This leaves me with just over 3 big blinds. I’m raised by the big blind and I figure he’s making a play at the short stack so I decide to put the rest of my stack in jeopardy. I’m happy to see that I’ve made the right play when he turns over KJ off suit (with the Jack of diamonds).
The board came out and once again I was left speechless.
Sure I had an Ace high flush but he was holding the Jack and once again I was done. This is less of a bad beat than the first hand but they came in back to back tournaments and I had had enough for the evening. As I said in my last post, “The best you can do is get your money in good and pray to the poker gods.” I did just that and came out on the short end of the flop both times but as they say – that’s poker!
See you after the flop!
June 23rd, 2009 at 10:40 am
First hand 99.1% after flop and 97.73% after turn.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
Thanks J.C. Rough I tell you… rough.