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simo1981, I know what you mean, but I don't really think of it as punishment for sitting out, rather it's just another insane beat. You can't get screwed if you don't play a pot. I've sat card dead for 20+ hands in a row lots of times (stuff like J-2o, the hand I hate the most and see the most) and as soon as I pick up something juicy and hit my hand, I'll get beat bad. Never ceases to amaze me that you can sit that long, and someone will still go to the mat holding junk and river you.
I've been playing high-stakes play money on FTP (lol, I know, but at least the players had to have some skill to build a large-sized play money bankroll), and things have been somewhat reasonable. The problem of the big stacks winning the late-stage push-or-folds in the most unreal ways possible is still pretty apparent, though. The biggest pot in the last one was an FTP bad beat special, that I thankfully wasn't involved in. One guy was pretty good, the other not so much (all-in after the flop quite a bit). Flop comes K-6-3 rainbow. The skill guy makes a pot sized bet, the other guy pushes (as usual), the skill guy calls with K-J or something (which was a solid call against this clown). Donk has Q-10 clubs. Turn and river come runner-runner clubs to make the flush. Classic. The guy had a ~8% to win that hand. That means, on average, I'd have to see that situation another 9 times before that happened again. On FTP, no way. Of the absolutely retarded calls I see, there's no way the guy loses 90%+ of the time... not even close.
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