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Originally Posted by burden2
I had to quit stars after the run I've had recently. I know this is a sample size violation but hell I have to share. During my bad run a I played a guy who has an excellent sharkscope record. I was playing in $100 hu sitngos. I mean this guys sharkscope graph just goes straight up with no significant downsings over 4K matches. I plalyed him 4 matches and lost all 4. In the matches one of us was all-in a total of 8 times. He won every all-in despite going all in with the best hand only twice, only once having me crushed with the other being a major cooler. Anyway I didn't think he had any edge on me so I started watching him play some other matches. He won every match. I can't remember how many all-ins I saw him win but it was like 6 and he had the best hand only once going in. When you combined my matches with the matches I watched it looks like he's just the luckiest donk in the world, and there is is sharkscope just steadily climbing like the slope of a mountain. In the meantime its like if I get all in with AQ vs. A6 I am actually shocked to win. I have made money on the site but I believe it is primarily through getting folds and capitalizing when people make huge mistakes.
Play weaker opponents, not ones that have great sharkscope graphs. I am not a HU sit and go expert, but I suspect there is more to the game then just the handful of all in hands you mention. I have a hard time believing he got his results calling 80 BB shoves with A6o on hand 1 of a sit and go. He probably is a lot better then you in general.
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Originally Posted by burden2
You come to a forum like this and read the rational explanations by intelligent people as to why the sites are not rigged. Then you go play and it's like your 98% on the flop and lose lose lose. It's got to the point where when I see the stars poker table I get queasy as if I am going to vomit (I swear it's true) and it was at that point I had to withdraw it all. I really felt like it was affecting my health. Tired of auto-expecting dominating hands to lose. Tired of flopping trips and lsoing every time heads up. Tired of check-callling sets in heads up simply because there is one funcky straight possible then thinking how well I played not to go broke there when, shocker, they have the 85 for the straight. Tired of seeing high quality players come in and posts graphs showing stars has them at hundreds of buy-ins below equity with the damn expectation and actual earnings looking like the damn opening of a crocs mouth.
That **** is over and it feels good.
You did the right thing if you do not have the emotional fortitude to handle these losses when they happen.
We have all been there, and we all have stories like yours. In Omaha DoNs I cannot ever seem to beat the regular who has the freaking Sponge Bob icon (yesterday added a 0-4 vs him with 4 AA hands including AAKK and AAKJ ds). Fortunately he is a 5/0 player so his stack is usually not lethal even if I lose.
I have even been seen saying "I cant beat the DAMN SPONGE!" at the tables. Yes it is annoying, but these things happen and the sponge losses along with a day of being unable to win a coin flip yesterday led to what I call a break even "treadmill day."
I have no doubt that many riggedologists would have confirmed their beliefs of rigged software and house players based on my short term luck yesterday, but these runs happen and how you handle them is just as important to your game as anything else.
Your issue is not that the world is rigged against you. It is that you use poor game selection, lack proper emotional control, and you probably play a lot worse when stressed then you think (and maybe overall as well). If you dealt with these issues properly you might find the world is less rigged against you.
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Originally Posted by burden2
There are many arguments for the sites not being rigged. However these arguments are not found in the trust of the restraint in risk management and ethics of completely unregulated corporations whose only motive is to make as much as possible.
Market forces do a lot more regulation then you might think. You can try to sell bottled water for $100 a bottle to "make more money" but the odds are you will not sell any. You can hire pick pockets to steal from your customers when they enter your store but odds are that will not be a good long term business choice to make, even if you face minimal criminal issues from it.
Anyone who has run a business knows the best approach for LONG term success is to provide a product or service that customers want at a price they are willing to pay.
Not sure why people think this goes out the window in this industry. Hell, it even applies to the street drug trade.