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Old 05-05-2008, 02:25 PM
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Default Little facts about bad beat

I decided to put down a few of my thoughts on all the bad beats people are always complaining about at online poker rooms.

In my opinion, most bad beats online can and should be blamed on bad players .. not bad software. Putting yourself in bad situations is usually to blame, or the donkey that calls everything and gets lucky.

I mean .. how can u blame software for a donkey winning a hand on the river when he should have never been in the hand in the first place. Bad play caused this to happen, the software had no idea he would call all the way to the river.

Or allowing yourself to get short stacked then going all in to get called by the BB who has nothing and wins. This person almost has to call the small raise to protect his BB and take a chance at knocking a player out of the game. This isn't the software you allowed this to happen.

Or raising the minimum raise or a small raise with a monster pocket pair. When you get outdrawn is this really the softwares fault? or your bad play that caused you to lose?

My point to all of this is to try to get you to look at the situation and really think, did I play that hand the best way I could have?

Also keep in mind that even 27 off suit beats AA 13% of the time. That means that 13 times out of 100 your AA will get beat by this 27os. And we all know those 13 times you lose are the ones you remember and stick in your mind, not the other 87 times that you won with it.
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