Joined: Jun '08
Location: Canada
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 188
pacific poker is ridiculous and it does seem like the cards follow the chips. I have done well in tourneys and seen amazing starting hands 90% of the time when I have alot of chips and when I got down below starting stack the cards were horrible. You have never seen so many 49offs and J3offs.
Joined: Jun '08
Location: Italy
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 411
I've been playing at Pacific Poker for 3 days but standig at what i've seen so far i would say hands are spectacular but i don't think it's rigged, because sometimes you get a bad beat and some times you beat badly your opponent.... it's just poker. The good thing about Pacific is i haven't met a good player so far..
Joined: May '08
Location: Netherlands
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 6197
Pacific is not rigged, its the same as any other online pokerroom. You have bad beats offcourse but not only at pacific. I played at full tilt 2 months ago in beginning i only had bad beats, but it has also sometin to do with betting, if slowplaying AA or KK offcurse you can be in trouble.
I never slowplay big hands, thats asking for a bad beat....
Joined: Jun '08
Location: Canada
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 188
Never matters to me how I play big hands I lose with them on any poker site because other people do not make the lay downs that I consider routine.
I know that I do try to mix up my betting patterns to throw people off and avoid becoming predictable but if I raise out of 3rd position to 3x the bb and you call in 4th position or go allin with some random garbage hand that's why and how bad beats happen.
If you didn't play to get your money in behind by making stupid calls and raises you wouldn't need to suck out on people.
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Croatia
Age: 49 (M)
Posts: 1308
Low limits and freerolls are just that. Lots of weekend players and poor players so it is usually a bad strategy to play over you bankroll on those limits. Yes flops sometimes do follow poor players but i would really like to see some examples of those because some players, not pointing at you at this time, mistake good draws with bad beats or forget the fact that they are inferior in stack size when making big bets and person at whom they are firing at may be a full time poker proffesional just warming up on low limits. I have even encounter poker pro on play money tables warming up at Pokerstars. Sometimes strong pockets are worst hand you can get into the hand with and people then go around and tell badbeat. Size of a 4 player reraised pot could at first look like it is offering you a great pot odds if you are holding A-Ko but think twice. At least 1 other player is holding A or K thus lowering your pot odds and not to mention that it is quite possible that 2 players hold A or K and one might even hold A-A so your pot odds dont look so good after all when you are chasing only one straight. This is only one example out of many.
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