I've told you guys before why it happens
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Originally Posted by FinK It always happens to you because it always happens to everyone. Newbie, fish, donkey, average Joe, Mr small profit, above average Joe and the pros. And the reason that it happens so often is simple. You can talk about odds and averages and everything else all that you like, but odds in poker are small. The vast majority of times that you get your chips all in preflop with the best hand (be it KK vs Ax, AK vs AT or 99 vs 66) it only takes one single card for your opponent to win... and there are 5 cards to come. |
but let me add a little to that... the majority of you are playing in low buyin MTTs (I play them too, nothing wrong with that), and while I know that the beats happen at every level you have to understand that the majority of the 2500 people who are playing in that $3 MTT on Stars are not (and have no interest in) playing "serious poker". Call them idiots, donkeys, fish, call them whatever you like... they don't care. They haven't read the books you read because they are simply forking over the $5 buyin to have a little fun. They didn't fold to your overbet of the pot because they have no idea what pots odds are and wouldn't give a damn if they did. They are there to play a game, they are there for entertainment... You can't take advanced poker logic and try to institute it into a $1, $2, $3, $5 buyin tournament. Well ok, you can to a point... but once you start calling that guy who paid a DOLLAR to get into the tourny an idiot because he called with a flush draw, I am here to tell you that you still have an awful lot to learn. Because that Advanced Poker Strategy book you just finished wasn't written with $2 online tournys in mind. If you are still shocked when someone calls your all-in with A3s, maybe you simply just have a problem realizing that people do in fact play those hands... I mean, you've seen it 25 times in the past week, the shock value should have worn off a very long time ago. When you fold before the flop and see a board come consisting of an A and 4 hearts, is it an unbelievable board? Is it shocking? Of course not, it isn't exactly a rare event. So why the shocked tantrums when the same board hits simply because you hold 2 black aces and your opponent has KQ with the Q of hearts?
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