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Originally Posted by vwpunk  I actually stumbled upon this site because I was looking to see if people could give good recomendations on poker sites. I'm a little unhappy with Fulltilt, it seems completely unrealistic, that everytime someone has a pocket pair, there are usually 2 other pocket pairs on the board at the same time, or how often you can be 90% favor and the river flushes you out of a game. Just seems like it's a little predictable with the bad beats.
Anyone else get that? Is there a site that doesn't seem like the hand is predetermined?
For instance I am playing mid pockets 99, My opponent has AdQd
The Flop comes 9d 2d 7d
I just flopped a set and knowing the Flush is out there, but i'm short stacked and probably got my best chance to get back in it, I push all in and of course get called to reveal he has just flopped an A high flush. And this is a very consistant thing with Fulltilt. It's as if Fulltilt is trying to force the play and get the tournaments or sit n gos to go quicker by giving a great hand only to let the larger stack take it down to reduce the playing field. If it happened just once in a while I would think it's just poker and I took a bad beat, but it's every single sit n go I play in, sometimes I'm on the good end of it, but it's just completely unrealistic that it happens as often as it does...
any insite on this? |
As with any poker game and with any site, bad beats occur on a regular frequency. This is called variance. Bad beats occur usually by the betting pattern. If you were the short stack depending on the blind levels and who's left to act, pushing ALL IN before the flop gives the person holding AQd one option rather than seeing the texture of the flop first before he or she decided to call your all in on the flop. Also study your players consistently, your given a section to place notes on every player you contend with. Bad beats occur no matter what. A pair of nines, you're slight favorite to "Little Slick" but using "race odds" before the flop by going all in as the shortstack might've caused a fold. It depends on who're your playing. This goes with taking notes on your opponents in the event you play them again. Taking notes on players, allows you to know their betting pattern, and the range of cards they do play verses the range of cards you would play against that particular opponent. Your objective in Sit N Go Tournaments is not elminate players but simply play straight clean poker. Online poker, there's too much bluffing, because of this factor alone will allow you to monopolize a table, to do this will require you to continously monitor your opponents even when you're not involved in a hand. Watch what they played, how they played it and their position when they played it. I tend to beat many opponents because of note taking its taking those notes that serve as a reminder that I played "this opponent" before and how they play allows me to manuever around them and out play or set traps to double up or cause them to reconsider their hand against mine.
