Joined: Dec '10
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 63 (M)
Posts: 17
Everyone knows I enter a hand with only group 1,2,or3 holdings, most of the time. After doing so well in february,( was well inside the top 100 and came 4th I think in the final), March has been a compleet disaster. I am convinced Full Tilt has cheated, they have set me up so often its a joke. I play so tight its the only way they can get me. I had AA or KK close to the bubble often but every time was beaten bye ridiculous situations. I floped a nut flush on the bubble and was beaten by a full house they were holding rag rag off. I think I may post the hand history, but by yesterday I was so upset with them I could not play properly at all anywhere. I think I need a couple of days off to get my head back. Please run a series somwhere other than Full Tilt I love playing the banroll mob tournies but I can not take anymore FT bullsht!. They are destroying my A-game and when this happens it can take a long time to get your discipline back. At least I made the party final and I suppose, two outa three aint bad, as the song goes. If you made it also SEE U THERE AND GOOD LUCK.
Joined: Oct '09
Location: United States
Age: 55 (F)
Posts: 3
Always happens to me as well on fulltilt..lol as a matter of fact i'm here now and not playing the freeroll out after three hands. I was holding KK and wouldn't you know it I should of folded pre-flop cause some doof went all in with Q/2 off and happen to hit a boat on me. I think the key is to play the rags fold anything good on there. Or better yet play the lottery your chances are better.
Joined: Apr '10
Location: Finland
Age: 50 (M)
Posts: 323
Most of the times I would throw loads of ignorant replys to this kind of threads but now I think you are not alone . I have myself runned really badly at FTP this month ended up losing with nuts pre/postflop action. So you have my regrets and GL to the future! Don´t Give Up
well they did a the bankrollmob promo at party poker awhile ago ,
as for you bad luck and thats all it it is, no one has anythink against you, after all its a freeroll, nothink to gain ,by ripping you off thats just part of poker and makes this game amazing, that any hand can beat any other hand no matter how strong it is till the river, if you have a 99% winning hand chance till the river and they hit there one outa on you, you can not win them all with a strong hand pre flop, just deal with this and will enjoy poker even more , you said it all take a break from poker, and come back fresh minded and you will have a different outlook on poker, you can go on a good run at poker and then go through a bad patch, but by using good bankroll management you will over come this variance, cause that what this is even thou its was in a freeroll, i hope this has helped you see you soon for more posts
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Ireland
Age: 52 (M)
Posts: 476
its like everyone says you go through bad patches in poker,it happen's to everyone,just take a break and you will come back stronger and hopefully get your game back
Joined: Feb '11
Location: Poland
Age: 60 (M)
Posts: 182
You are not alone, guys... such fckn bad-beats happen and will happen to everyone playing poker. At some time I even assumed that they set up some kill-switch on me or either I must played against some bot, when losing my strong hand by incredible way and been suckout from the game short of the final table... And I don't mean freerolls, where play a lot of LAG donks, but serious tournaments.
But this is just fallacy. As @dozn01 said - poker is amazing and unforeseeable game. Besides, you may also drop into downswing and upswing... anytime.
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 31 (F)
Posts: 3
if mega premium hands were supposed to win 100% of the time the game wouldnt be known as texas hold em' it would be known as POCKET ACES. here's my advice i deem as the best bad beat stress reliever. ''THANK GOD THERE ARE PLAYERS WILLING TO SHOVE PREFLOP WITH Q2 AGAINST MY ACES'' because without them we have to pay for our tournaments ourselves sure one day your aces lose every single time. as a mega grinder of micro stakes iv seen it all. but you know when you have a day when you dont get alot of pairs. but you get alot of kq's and hands like that, and you allways seem to flop the nuts? when other days they are useless. well aces and kings have there downfall days. and if that seems to be the case. change your play. if your getting it in with aces and kings. try seeing flops and determining if your going to win the hand smoothly. or if your in trouble with 10 10 on a k 8 5 flop the break is the real gem of course. because when you come back... chances are your going to wipe up the table with ease and get back those lost chips with a solid A game. those donks wont know what hit them! and if they do know what hit them. they'll realize it was a strong player. take your time, maybe read a new poker book. learn some more skills whilst they lose there stacks
And I don't mean freerolls, where play a lot of LAG donks, but serious tournaments. 
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and if they do know what hit them. they'll realize it was a strong player.
