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Originally Posted by Captious but the fact still remains that the odds of that happening are highly highly unlikely.. |
Not true, and that is why the game of poker drives so many people crazy. In this hand you were barely above a coinflip to scoop the pot preflop (53%). Even if if had been your KK vs QQ without the other guy in the pot you'd be at 80% which as far as poker goes is about as good as it gets. the problem is, many people see the numbers and don't really give much thought to what it actually means. It means that 1 out of every 5 times you are going to lose, but people even take that well out of context. It is not highly unlikely that you are going to lose an 80%er, you are going to lose a full 20% of the time.
You started the hand with 20,000 chips so let me ask you, how many all in hands were you a part of previously in the tourny which actually held up? From a simple mathmatics point of view, were you "due" to lose? The reason poker drives so many people crazy is that when they have an 80%er lose, they react as if they unbelievably lost a 10 or 20-1 shot. 20%ers are far from "highly unlikely", in fact they are so common that most poker players see many of them every day.