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Originally Posted by VBAces
Here is a hand I just saw. It has absolutely no meaning of anything, but is indicative of what I see on Global, and goes counter to all the hands that other people have posted that "are evidence" of something or other. I see hands like this all the time, and I'm sure the other posters do, too - they just pick and choose the ones they want to share.
https://play.globalpoker.com/hand/62...df4a0001640aa6
Pretty standard hand for a rec player but context and history really matters. If you had bluffed that player with blockers previously he may have just decided he's not folding the 2nd nuts that time, even if you were in the big blind etc
We're talking more like small blind 5 bet fist pump ape jams A559r preflop vs utg AAKJds and hits quads. Same player 2 hands later smash jams bare bottom pair no draw vs top set on a dry flop, hitting runner runner quads again. Other such nonsense
No doubt the players are generally really bad and PLO variance is crazy sometimes but it's like I've never seen. Real players are just not that bad even as a day one beginner and they just don't hit miracles with trash so often IRL. I'm on the fence. I think it's bad form for an experienced player to be phased by bad beats but I'm seeing some really anomalous stuff myself that, combined with not being allowed to build a hand history db, kinda makes me wonder.
I'm 60/40 "That's just poker/PLO" but.. it's kinda not tho