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Originally Posted by jason64
I don't think I've ever posted in this thread before, but while I won't say online poker is rigged, it's interesting to watch the final table at the WSOP main event and see few straights/flushes/full houses at the 250+ hand final table. Yet I feel like I see them within every 25 hands online. Coincidence or has this been covered before? Seems odd.
There are a few explanations that can cause two effects: how often they actually happen in a given period of time, and how easily you remember them.
HOW OFTEN THEY HAPPEN
a) In comparing live vs online, obviously online hands happen a lot faster. Thus, in a given stretch of a few minutes, you see many more hands happen online compared to live. This means there are more hands where interesting things can happen.
b) The format of the FT of the WSOP is different to most tournaments. Most obviously, they're typically short-handed. In a shorter-handed game, you have less chance of seeing big hands, because there are obviously less players with hands.
c) Because they're shorter-handed, players don't need as strong hands to win pots. Thus, players are less likely to worry about playing hands that make flushes, and more likely to worry about hands that have high cards.
Compare hand rankings in all-in preflop push-fold situations:
http://sngwiz.com/wp/question/what-a...are-they-used/
to hand rankings in 9-max:
http://www.flopturnriver.com/poker-s...-players-19149
d) In a highly skilled final table situation like at the WSOP, there are likely to be less showdowns (and rivers and turns and flops) than a similar number of hands in a low stakes 9-max tournament
HOW EASILY YOU REMEMBER THEM:
e) When you're playing yourself, you are more likely to remember notable hands a lot more easily, because you're emotionally invested