The ppl cryin about bad beats need to realize that its not some scheme of the site. With tens of thousands of players do you really think that they care if you or someother monkeyfish wins that 40 dollar pot? if that player loses and dont come back, someone else will fill their place. The reason for the bad beats is that tons of terrible poker players with no respect for the odds(and seemingly their own $!!) will call you to the 91st river with a stupid inside straight draw even in the face of an ace or worse. These same people wouldnt dare show their faces in a B&M cardroom. Try playing high stakes or a decent buy in tourney and these beats decrease drastically as most bad rec players will be out of their league. Ive been in some intensely tight games, and seen(and-i admit it)pushed on some really big cheese. Thats poker though. And no, I am not a winning player who is satisfied, I am down right now. I just think that they have enough buisiness with the moneymaker/raymer connection on espn every night, and wouldnt go through that much to bad beat you out of a tiny pot to keep 1 small limit player.