Chris_TC
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Silver Level
Yes, I'm aware of this. But thanks for pointing it out, the more useful information this thread contains the better!I think you know this but for the sake of others, I would like to point out that there is no such thing as "my luck is due to change because I had terrible cards/beats for a while". It is just as likely to get bad luck tomorrow as it is to get good luck.
I don't expect an immediate upswing or anything. I know that after a terrible session the cards may be just as bad the next day.
I guess the best way to explain what I meant is this: I have gotten dealt all pocket pairs roughly 215 times (+/- 10) over the course of 47,000 hands, but I've only gotten dealt Kings 170 times.
Now I know for a fact that the pocket Kings are going to catch up. They may not catch up in a single day, in fact it may take ages for them to catch up, but they will catch up.
I'm not sure whether patterns are a normal part of randomness, but it does seem that there are often streaks. To go with the example above, I expect a streak of Kings at some point.
There was a time about a week ago where I would catch set after set after set (they got sucked out all the time, but that's a different story ). At the moment however I barely catch any sets.
Since the odds of catching a set are 1:8, one would think that roughly every eighth pocket pair makes a set. But that's not how it works.
There are stretches where you play 35 pocket pairs in a row and don't get a set, and another time you may catch 5 sets when playing 8 pairs.
So, I don't know whether there will big a "big ass upswing" or whether it'll be a "slow but steady quicker-than-average increase" but I just feel that a "big ass upswing" is more likely, once again because everything seems to happen in streaks a whole lot.