Another weird night at Joke Stars....

kraemer

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So I took my freeroll winings and joined the $1,10 Hotter on "Poker" Stars yesterday...

Within in the first 7 hands I was dealt AA 3 times...

OK, that's unreal but let's be honest... We usually don't mind that if it is in our favor :)

But what went down afterwards was not even a joke anymore.
As soon as You go allin-in with a dominated hand you are guranteed to win.
Ax vs. Ax... the dominated hands won 18 out of 19 pots on my tables yesterday...
Pocket Pair Clash? The lower pairs take 65% of the pots...
Donk calling an All-In with 10 7 off? You bet the flop comes 3 7 7 ....

I know that poker includes losses and bad beats... BUT EVERY SINGLE HAND ???

After I lost my good stack playing 3 dominating hands in a row I tilted...
All-In with 10 6 against A5 suited - Oh look a straight to the 6 !
All-In with 8 5 against 2 opponents - Oh look a full house!

Went from 2300 chips ( BB 1200 ) to 28.000 with 5 completely mindless crap plays within 5 hands... That calmed me down... Started folding hands again. Great... AK suited. UTG raises 3BB... I make it 7BB in SB position. BB calls, UTG folds... Flop comes 6 7 7 and I am ready to lose against a strong pocket pair so I call the All-In.... Clown shows 10 7....

It just went on and on and on and on and on.... Not a single pot won by legit play. The more donk bets people made the bigger their stacks. The more people were a favorite the more You already knew they would lose on the river....

What's going on on "Poker" Stars isnt even funny anymore. It has nothing to do with poker when AK becomes an obvious lay down....
 
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I know your feelings mate.
Happened to me a lot.When the downswing starts never ends.It's too frustrating,especially when hands that isn't suppose to be played beats you.

Just want to say that you should shove there with your AKs.Or at least 3bet larger.

Hope your bad luck ends.
 
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So I took my freeroll winings and joined the $1,10 Hotter on "Poker" Stars yesterday...

Within in the first 7 hands I was dealt AA 3 times...

OK, that's unreal but let's be honest... We usually don't mind that if it is in our favor :)

But what went down afterwards was not even a joke anymore.
As soon as You go allin-in with a dominated hand you are guranteed to win.
Ax vs. Ax... the dominated hands won 18 out of 19 pots on my tables yesterday...
Pocket Pair Clash? The lower pairs take 65% of the pots...
Donk calling an All-In with 10 7 off? You bet the flop comes 3 7 7 ....

I know that poker includes losses and bad beats... BUT EVERY SINGLE HAND ???

After I lost my good stack playing 3 dominating hands in a row I tilted...
All-In with 10 6 against A5 suited - Oh look a straight to the 6 !
All-In with 8 5 against 2 opponents - Oh look a full house!

Went from 2300 chips ( BB 1200 ) to 28.000 with 5 completely mindless crap plays within 5 hands... That calmed me down... Started folding hands again. Great... AK suited. UTG raises 3BB... I make it 7BB in SB position. BB calls, UTG folds... Flop comes 6 7 7 and I am ready to lose against a strong pocket pair so I call the All-In.... Clown shows 10 7....

It just went on and on and on and on and on.... Not a single pot won by legit play. The more donk bets people made the bigger their stacks. The more people were a favorite the more You already knew they would lose on the river....

What's going on on "Poker" Stars isnt even funny anymore. It has nothing to do with poker when AK becomes an obvious lay down....
Why blame the site?
PS didn't force you to call an all-in nor did they force clown into playing a crap hand.
I have been a recreational player on pokerstars for awhile and when it comes the micros, the volume of absolutely horrible play there is actually kind of depressing, but amusing when it ends in your favor.


There are other sites out there which have far less traffic which may suit your needs.
 
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PURE WEEKEND WEIRDNESSS

Strange, but on Weekends I get the most bad beats. Its a part of the game ok, but suckzz:p

More painfull is to sat into 5 bigger MTTs and have no chance to build a stack. Thats hurts man...
 
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While your frustration is understable i can't agree with blaming PS on that.

The behavior of players is in general unpredictable, especially in freerolls and micros where you can always find bingo players. For example, yesterday i played PS school mega freeroll, and my short stack all-in with 66 was called with J6o from a bit shorter stack (the latter won because of lucky river).

As for their RNG i don't think it's any different from manual deck shuffling.

So basically it's just bad luck, and it can affect any player from time to time.
 
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