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Old 06-26-09, 09:23 PM
buck22 buck22 is offline
 
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Been playing some relatively large stakes single table recently of which the pots are 99% of the time resolved before before the river, rarely all in. I've found that haven't had ridiculous bad beats, still a few, but thought my super unlucky run had taken a turn. My mate asked me to play some $10 games for him and the suck outs were silly. It all came back to me, suddenly AA was gettin cracked constantly, top pairs outdrawn, it just has to be the volume of action that one gets at low stakes.
If people are playing better, there's alot less gambling going on, less variance.
Im playing stars at mo, doing fine, but playing the low stakes just deja vu'd my whole experience with fulltilt.

THEORY: When players are playing better, you win money slowly but consistantly, and when players are bad, you win in huge streaks but accompanied with far more bad beats.

Ultimately bad players are better equity, but you will have long streaks of losing to them. So this could easily be mistaken for a dodgy RNG.