This is a terrible thread. It's gonna start and stop real quick like. I wanna give the mods a heads-up maybe to shut me up. But I just have never seen these intense bursts of murderous beats every time you sit or move.

Tonight in 15 minutes after sitting:

Top 2 pair aces up flopped beat by running flush draw.

Set beat by back door flush draw.

Trips beat by bigger trips.

Trips beat by 3-outer trips with smaller kicker for stack.

Here's me just shaking my head as it rains down. It's been going on for three years with murderous, insane intensity. Ten times more intense and ten times longer than ever over decades long career. Only thing I can think of is I ran good for decades and didn't even know it, and this is payback. But the other answer, the real answer, is far, far stranger ... and therefore much more likely to be true.

Been there.

Also **** you for the "ran good for decades" brag.

Your first thread in BBV was bad. This one is a disgrace

I do intense bursts of beats on ur'e mums forehead

A-2 versus 2-J on 2-2-6 flop. I run near zero percent in this situation for 3 years. It's insane and it warrants comment.

Now the posts about mothers ... no disgrace in that. You dig?

OP If you feeling bad,
check out this site, they're very supportive and will understand your situation
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

*Grunch*

Because you suck at poker.

Yes.

How many times? once? Maybe u should think in terms of hands or BB and not increments of time.

Boy you guys are good. How did you think that stuff up? Amazing. Thanks.

Functional brains.

There is an implication in that by the way.

What’s amazing is that you believe the universe is waging an orchestrated and targeted attack against you that manifests itself through poker...and you continue to play poker.

If I thought that the universe hated me but that hatred could only be expressed via sharks, I’d stay out of the ocean.

Not hate at all ... but profound wisdom. You equate a horrendous run of cards with hatred, quite falsely. But I love that characterization about a targeted phenomenon via the deck.

Tonight two hands within 15 minutes vs. same villain:

My A-K versus his K-10, flop A-A-Q. He wins the pot.

My A-K versus his K-10, flop A-K-10. He wins the pot.

My two biggest faves in the session, nada. I moved on pretty well. Just more of the wisdom raining from the cosmos in the perfect place.

For me, 3 things happen.

1) The bad beats COME all at once, live a little, but especially online. I've since learned to quit after 2-3 full buy ins gone... for 2 logical reasons.

EVEN if your head is in the game, other players assume you arent and call VERY light with ANY piece, and it leads to more bad beats (cause normally they'd fold to you, but they just keep calling).

Second, the lower the stake, the more donk calls (duh, im the great reader and I know he has ace high so I'm shoving my 22...ooh, he has AA...YA I HIT THE 2).

THAT SAID, in my experience, the bad beats ALWAYS come in HUGE clumps. Recently, I decided to stick to the game, because I didnt want to leave the donkeys with chips. Over a 4 day period, I have experienced THE MOST bad beats I have ever experienced in 20 years of poker. Here they are, IN CONSECUTIVE ORDER (thats right, 20 bad beats in a row...not 20 hands in a row, but every time I was all in with a favourite, beat)...that exceeds my previous record of 11 bad beats on Poker stars by far.

So poker aint for me anymore:


These are all FULL buy ins, sometimes multiple if we both got deep, within a 12 hour playing session, 5 days in a row. This is not tiny buy ins...its not $5 micro stakes,
AA reraised, other guy jams J7...flops straight
All in with AK on ace flop vs AQ...river Q
All in with KK vs AK...river Ace
All in with KT vs JT (loose player) on T32 flop, turn jack.
All in with A4 on a 44xx board, 2 clubs, flush draw calls...binks (that one stung, triple deep stacks)
All in with AA vs KK, king
All in with QQ vs A8, ace.
All in with AQ vs J8, on AJx flop...jack turn
All in with AJ vs J8 on AJ8 flop, turn 8
All in with QQ vs 99, flop 9
All in with JJ vs AJ, turn ace.
Reraise KK, A5 calls, flop 522, bet, A5 shoves, call, turn 5.
All in with AQ vs 86 on AQ86 board, river 8
All in with AA vs AK, flush.
All in with A9 vs A7 on A97 board, runner runner flush
All in with AA vs KK, flush
All in with KK vs AK, QJT board
All in with QQ vs AQ, AA board
All in with AQ vs 54, on AQ3 board, turned straight (he had a flush draw tho)
All in with QJ vs AK on a 9TKx board, he had a flush draw, so he calls...binks


Before you go on and on about variance, or whatever, I have played poker solidly for years, and series of bad beats have only happened to a few other people I've spoken to. I'm not saying online is rigged, i'm just saying these sort of swings are IMPOSSIBLE to stomach, no matter how much philosophy you swallow. 20 buy ins is NOT variance, it is cursed for life.

All you young kids thinking of poker for a living, DONT DO IT, DO ANYTHING ELSE, the amount of time you put into it you can start a successful business that allows you to play PLEASURABLE WEEKEND poker with no fear. DONT TAKE UP POKER FOR A LIVING EVER, no matter what some degen says to you.

So you think the universe is attempting to express profound wisdom to you through bad beats, and your response is to whine about it and continue to play poker?

Move up where they respect your raises imo

I bursted an intense beat as soon as I opened this thread and I think OPs tears were effective lube

Up to the comma -- correctamoondo. After the comma change "whine" to "communicate" and yes continue to play if being offered divine wisdom (you think no, really?).

Luv it. Mysterious that it does seem to get "stuck" and keep coming in clusters. Thinking about writing an article: "When the 95% and 5% outcomes flip sides and get stuck."

[QUOTE=AlwaysFolding;54904607]I bursted an intense beat as soon as I opened this thread and I think OPs tears were effective lube[/QUOTE

^^^^^ Good quality and I think you are safe from being called down on it.

Is it contageous?

First hand I sit tonight after letting button pass:

I’m A-K up against A-A (pre-flop raiser all-in $40) and 2-10 of clubs. Flop A-2-10. Really? Both get the perfect flop as if you rummaged thru the deck for 10 minutes to find it? Busto for me … no help on side pot v. 2-10. First hand bizarro cooler. Oh, and Mr. 2-10 Doyle Brunson slow rolls it, just turning the deuce up with 10 below covered for about 5 seconds. I show my A-K, he uncovers the 10.

Next hand played I have 2-9 in BB unraised pot. Flop 2-9-K. Bet 50, one call, it comes a king.

The dealer who dealt my jack high in diamonds straight flush LOSER a few weeks ago sits down. He brings it up, not me. So we are describing it to the table when they say, “WHAT??” Meanwhile he deals me 7-10 of diamonds (which I used to say was my favorite hand). Flop is 9c-9d-8c. Checked around. Turn is J of diamonds. So now I have a straight and am drawing to the same straight flush the dealer sitting there talking about from last month. I’m sitting there staring at him marveling at the sequence of card tricks.

River blank, 4h. I bet and he shoves light stack, so I pay it off. He flopped full.

Game breaks. New table. Two hours of nothing. Then A-8 of diamonds versus loose, frequent raiser. Flop comes 8-4-2 rainbow. I check call. I’m up against aces of course. Turn comes a diamond. I bet he shoves. I call the damn thing. And I catch an 8 and win a 800 pot. This is something I’ve been saying the whole streak: when I get way behind on a hand, I win.

Then an hour of folding seriously every hand, blinds coming around it’s late and I’m quitting. I tell the very studious player next to me, “This last hand is gonna be A-K suited.” He laughs. Don’t blame him much on that one, what else can you do when someone has gone crazy? The flop comes A-5-6. Run out is A-5-6-7-8. I fold.

(Is this stuff normal to just keep going on? Answer: No, these are extreme card tricks kind of like the XGames or something. )

Oh, my last hand was ................. A-K of diamonds

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