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Looks like I'm quitting online poker.
mbelsky
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excuse me but that almost exact thing happened to me at the Borgata in Atlantic city in a LIVE $100 rebuy tourney. I had AA and so did another guy and a third had KQ suited (dont know why he called? - fishermaaaaan 
) but i ended up hitting a flush on the river and tripling up early in the tourney. Now while it is a very lucky thing to happen it just annoys me when people whine about ONLINE bad beats...live bad beats happen just as often (percentage wise)if u think about it. Consider how many hands u are playing online...forget about that..think about how many hands are being played at pokerstars at any given time. Bad beats are seen more often simply because MORE HANDS ARE BEING PLAYED / MINUTE. Think about it..if the odds of some hand beating a hand that totally dominates it is like 1-5% (for example) . The more times these hands go against each other...the more times the dominated hand will win!! Obviously it wont win a higher PERCENTAGE of the time but it will win a bigger NUMBER of times (quantitatively). Thats y everyone complains about badbeats online (Oh,that and the fact that players are in general looser online (in my opinion) so u will get that call from the worse, dominated player more of the time too)
) but i ended up hitting a flush on the river and tripling up early in the tourney. Now while it is a very lucky thing to happen it just annoys me when people whine about ONLINE bad beats...live bad beats happen just as often (percentage wise)if u think about it. Consider how many hands u are playing online...forget about that..think about how many hands are being played at pokerstars at any given time. Bad beats are seen more often simply because MORE HANDS ARE BEING PLAYED / MINUTE. Think about it..if the odds of some hand beating a hand that totally dominates it is like 1-5% (for example) . The more times these hands go against each other...the more times the dominated hand will win!! Obviously it wont win a higher PERCENTAGE of the time but it will win a bigger NUMBER of times (quantitatively). Thats y everyone complains about badbeats online (Oh,that and the fact that players are in general looser online (in my opinion) so u will get that call from the worse, dominated player more of the time too)
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aliengenius
Cardschat Elite
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Thanks V., I <3 you.
J
joeeagles
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Silver Level
Yup, bad beats never happen in live poker. This is a hand from the ME, I copied it from cardplayer.com :
John Armbrust raised to $700,000 from the big blind. Lee Childs had limped from the button, but now reraised to $1,700,000. Armbrust quickly went all-in for approximately $5,000,000. Childs seemed unsure about what to do, and took several minutes before he eventually decided to call with the A
Q
. Armbrust revealed his dominant A
K
and the two went to the flop with Armbrust's tournament life on the line. The flop was a nightmare for Armbrust, bringing the J
7
2
. The pause before the turn must have been agonizing for Armbrust, but not nearly as painful as when the 10
hit the turn. With that he was drawing dead. Armbrust took 18th place and $381,302.
Like I said, it never happens live.
John Armbrust raised to $700,000 from the big blind. Lee Childs had limped from the button, but now reraised to $1,700,000. Armbrust quickly went all-in for approximately $5,000,000. Childs seemed unsure about what to do, and took several minutes before he eventually decided to call with the A
Like I said, it never happens live.