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Originally Posted by fasterlearner
No, when things turn around I won't think that way. I'm playing good right now. I'm hanging tough. I'm still working on my game trying to improve as its all I can do. But I ran so far under EV today its crazy. I'm actually doing good at PLO, because I can actually make hands with 4 cards. But in NL holdem I have nothing so frequently, which to me is fine because your suppose to, but its the flip side of the coin that is crazy. These guys get so many hands, or more so the regs. I would much prefer the wish to be lucky.
Does anyone think maybe stars has there own shills playing and its rigged.
Like I see the odd fish get lucky of course, but its these reg pros that I see everyday that just run like gods. They can play super overaggressive in ******ed fashion all because the deck smacks them in the face. Its almost embarassing. This ****er Al magelin is the luckiest ***** alive. I was studying hands on him just to try & learn his game a bit maybe help play vs him. But I couldn't even study the hand histories, it made me sick look at this complete nonsense of winning the lottery over like 3 k hands. Its just
so crazy, its like literally 10 times luckier than me. More pat hands than I do pairs. He raises every button but gets the nuts dealt to him there so frequently. Just sick of playing a game where this can happen. He literally gets money handed to him, I have to earn every ****ing cent
Well, this is a psychology subforum, so I will take you for being honest and not trolling.
3k hands is nothing. Not even a variance sneeze. If you try to analyze the players that do well against you for such small stretches, you will always find good runs of cards.
If you like PLO then stick to that. But you should know that some of the best players online have experienced months of bad cards and losing money during those stretches, which are over 100k hands.
Rather than imagine the most popular and secure poker site in the world is somehow rigged against you, I recommend you entertain these two more likely scenarios:
1. (More likely) You are not as good as you think you are YET, even though you are learning and trying to get better. There is more going on at the table that you do not understand.
2. (Less likely) You would be crushing the opposition if you were not experiencing a downswing of luck, which can happen to anyone, and eventually happens to everyone.
If you only study the hands where you lose even though your cards were better, you will only feed your delusions.
Study the hands you win just as much, as well as the hands you folded and assumed folding was correct, and most importantly study the hands that you placed a large bet but in fact held the worst hand.
Nothing more I can say to be helpful.
Good luck,
-Rob