I personally play at Pokerstars, if only there was
rakeback with them
Even 1000tournies is still a pretty small sample of hands. My point wasnt making mistakes in play, was more giving a leadup to the point that people treat losing differently to winning. You could play a session perfectly and play one hand terribly - the thing you'll remember is that cockup. Same for these 'bad beats' - when you AA against KK allin preflop, and the aces hold, you think nothing of it - "AA SHOULD beat KK!". But KK will win roughly 1in5 times, but you notice them more! It feels like a travesty of justice! How can KK win there!?
Just as a totally extreme example, take a massive hurricane somewhere that kills thousands. It happens so rarely, but sticks in people's minds so much. We take for granted that nothing will happen today, but why so? We never think about when a disaster DOESNT happen do we? I guess it's just the way the mind works or something
And if you're multitabling online, you're gonna have more 'bad beats' hurtling at you left right and centre. And most of these allin fests are really badbeats at all. I mean something like QQ only beats A9 and TT say, about half the time
Re: Absolute, there was a 'superuser' account found, which meant some guy could see people's hole cards, as far as I remember