Joined: Jan '08
Location: Brazil
Age: 44 (M)
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After having the worst bad beat week in my online history, losing over 10K to hands like AQ vs. A7, flop comes A Q 2, opponent goes all in, I call, turn 7, river 7, I honestly give up the online cash tables. It has been one after the other. Losing constantly to maniac trash players who get lucky with runner runner hands or miracle 2 outer rivers going all in on flop and turn with absolutely nothing. I can call this hand I gave the example of luck, right?
I´m truly disgusted at this. It got me questioning if my playing style does not work online, because in live games I do make good money, you know? But when it comes to the online world, I honestly don´t believe how I can lose certain hands. I know that as long as there is at least 1 out, there is still a chance to lose, but come on! This crap has been happening all week long, constantly.
So I have decided to NOT play online cash tables anymore. I´ll play some sit n go´s or just plain old tournaments, but cash games, only live.
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Canada
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 81
It happens, playing online or live for many hands there will be some bad runs and good runs as well as terrible runs (like you are having right now) sorry to hear that, all you can do is play through it and continue to get your money in good Dont give up on cash games, they are great Matt
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Brazil
Age: 44 (M)
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Hey Matt, thanks for the support. I honestly don´t see many calls like those in live games, at least not in the circles that I play in. For now, I have made up my mind that I will not play cash tables online for a long time. Who knows, maybe in the future I can change, but for now this puts my mind at ease regarding online cash game badbeats.
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Australia
Age: 36 (M)
Posts: 19
Hey Fodz,
I know what your'e going through! How many Cash tables do you play @ time? and what limit? what you are going through has nothing to do with your playstyle! unless ure to soft with the bets, witch im guessing ure not...It all comesdown to timing and bad luck! this is a part of poker that WILL pass!!! when i get the neverending bad beats i turn to tournaments my selfe..my bad beat streaks have lasted up to 2-3 months!!!! witch is absolutely normal if you ask any hardcore player..an ide might be to eighter do like me...slow down with the cash play and play tournaments or go down knotch with the limits your playing...even when ive been in a streak of neverending bad beats i allmost allways manage to go + in the end...i play on Pokerstars and ladbrokes... pokerstars for tournaments and laddies for cash...
when u play cash do you play accurding to odds or on feeling?
Joined: Oct '07
Location: Philippines
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For now you can stop playing to let those bad luck pass as all players get 'em, you can just rest for a week or two and when you feel that you're wanting to play online again then don't restrain yourself.
Joined: Jan '08
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Posted by scaL: when u play cash do you play accurding to odds or on feeling?
My main game is live, where I play not only with odds but also with body language. Online I would have to say is for fun, to relax, where odds are present, sure, but feeling based on betting patterns etc. All the beats that I considered bad beats this week were exactly like the one I described above, so I know it will pass, not because people will not hit their 2 outs, but because I believe people will not risk so much money on so little odds.
But hey Scal, thanks for the conforting words and support.
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Australia
Age: 36 (M)
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ofc odds i the key to the game but the odds only covers a sertain range of the game...the rest is all upp to experience and feeling...putting yourselfe in there situation and then acting odds pre flop yes after no that how i se it...with all idiots out there playing i don trust odds any more^^
Joined: Feb '08
Location: United States
Age: 54 (M)
Posts: 407
Im sorry to hear about your bad luck this week Fodz. You are obviously playing at alot higher limits than I play at. I was thinking that if I started playing higher limits , I would get away from such play. But I can see they will call you even at the higher limits. Maybe I better just stay were I am at. You are obviously a very good player , so dont let it get you down man.
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Germany
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 482
Fodz, sounds hard to lose 10k in one week, but if ure that good, that you can efford losing 10k(!) in one week you should have hear of up and downswings, i know thats hard, but the badbeats u re talinkg about are happening to all of us. But i can feel what u mean , u dont get such badbeats often real life. Good luck rippin those onlinekids ;P
Joined: Dec '07
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 43 (F)
Posts: 845
wow fodz you dont sound like a happy chappy right now. As you know and probably would be the first to say we all have a bad run now and again and im sure that sooner rather than later you will come through it but i wouldnt quit playing online cash games if thats what you enjoy doing cause a few ididots got lucky over and over again... dont let them win man. I guaranntee that although it may be at a loss now , they wont hit runner runner or a 2 outer all the time against you and that you will probably take more from them than they will from you... keep ya head up fodz and dont let them win Good luck
Joined: Feb '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
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the thing is i think. online poker rooms must give first time players ateatse of victoryso they get hooked and return i noticed the first couple of times i deposited on sites id do well then it all went down hill
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Canada
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lol fodz you have to take out the soccer ball and dribble it around your house lol cool off and stay away from online poker for a while lol let the streak pass then come back with vengecne and win it all back plus some!!
Joined: Feb '08
Location: United States
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Dannyjon that is weird that you say that. I swear it is like that for me when I first try out a site. I really dont think that is the fact , but it sure does seem like that.
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ive actually notice that myself too tho not so much with the new users on a site but the person who joins a table usually gets a pretty nice winning hand ive notice quite a few times actaully! look for it and see so i kind of use that as a judge if some 1 new comes to a table and bets high pre flop i usually always fold
Good luck 
