Those beats are NOT standard. The RNG is fucked up at FT. I know you want to believe its random but its not. Phil Ivey would have lost if he played your cards and he would have probably played the same way. (except the AK pre flop shove) IMO the only way to make money on line is to multi table and not see the results until the session is over. It’s really not poker but its a way to make money long run due to the number of hands you are playing and the odds playing out long run. The problem with FT is the one table, two table etc. takes longer to get the odds to play out, odds wise. Is it “rigged”? Fuck if I know, but I will say this, I win regulary or break even or take a loss in a session live. Over the long run, I am a winning player at all the local games, including tourneys. Sure I take my beats but its not consistently hand after hand after hand like it is on FT. On line, welp I am just like you, I play really solid with lots of people sweating me and you know what? Thats right I lose session after session after session after session. One outers and turned sets are the norm on lin. That rarely happens to me live. Sure people hits sets and I will lose a good size pot when I flop two pair, however I can get those chips back during the session with good solid positional play. Now you can believe me or not, I can’t force you either way. On line if fucked up. I only play live and I’m fine with that. For the longest time I kept telling myself I can have similar results on line as I do live. I now only play live and I am happy about it.

PUMA

Try not to go too ballistic tomorrow.

I can hear the Titanic music already.

I got a Lions hat with your name on it.

When you talk football, you’ve been harping on the fact that you can’t reach any conclusions from an non-representational sample.

If you think 16 games isn’t a good enough sample to gauge the talent of a football team, you’ve gotta know that 7k NL hands is meaningless over the long haul.

Yes, being on the wrong end of the variance in the short term blows, but if you’re confident that you’re getting the money in the middle at the right time, that’s all you can do. Sh*# happens . . Bad Beats happen.

I’ll deny giving the advice later, but you should think like Hellmuth . . . if there wasn’t any luck involved, you’d win alot more (maybe not ‘all the time’ like Hellmuth thinks . . but more).

BTW . . . Lions are going to pwn the Pinkskins Sunday!! You should hear what they’re saying on Detroit sports radio!!