I hear people say this all the time...but I don't see any more bad beats online than I do offline. The truth is there are just more bad plays in low level tourneys and freerolls. And sometimes bad plays get lucky and win. Plus most online players see more hands than they would offline. The more hands you see the higher the chances of seeing improbable hands.
I think this is further compounded by people over estimating how much one hand dominates another. For example the OP mentioned pocket Qs losing to pocket 6s despite totally dominating them...but what is "totally dominating"? In this case it means the Qs win, or should win 80% of the time...not every time or even almost every time. And you are more likely to notice when they lose. As I was typing this I got knocked out of a fulltilt tourney when I was called all in with AK spades versus K club 4 spade. Did this piss me off? Yeah? Is the other guy a donk? Yeah. Should I have won that most of the time? Yeah, about 75% of the time. But that was also my 100th hand or so. During which I was hit by only 1 or 2 other memorable bad beats. Eventually you are going to have dominated hands and lose. Some people seem to think it happens more online that it should but I have not seen it. You just notice the bad beats more because the donkeys are worse and you see way more hands.
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