[chipper57AA]

There just happen to be a lot more people out there on the internet that like to "gamble" as opposed to a B&M place.

Amen! Who needs to drive 2 hours, fight traffic, look for parking spots, sit in smoke clogged rooms, have few choices of tables, then drive back 2 hours - when all they really need to do is turn on their computer in the comfort of their own home!

B&M rooms may still be popular but as the internet rooms grow in popularity, the B&M's will have a hard time filling tables (except for tournaments).

[hachkc]

Originally Posted by Timmay

There just happen to be a lot more people out there on the internet that like to "gamble" as opposed to a B&M place. At least that is my experience.

To them, throwing the money down in each betting round is no different than throwing their money into a slot machine or betting every hand of BJ...they are just waiting to "hit".

Agreed.

People that would never sit down at a live poker table are more than willing to play online. Also, how many of us have made calls online that we probably wouldn't make in live home game when we first started playing online. Its so much easier to push the call button on the computer than it is to slide 1/2 dozen chips into a live pot.

Timmay,
I like your analogy to the slots; hadn't ever thought about it that way before.

[SpeakEasy]

Originally Posted by PawNtheSandman

You would call with 6's? after a flop of 3 cards that beat your pair?

I wasn't outplayed, some guy with no clue how to play got lucky.

If I thought you were on a draw and I was in the lead with a pair, and it cost me 150 for about a 500 pot, absolutely I would call. I make plays like this all the time, when the price is right.

I didn't say you got outplayed, I said you made a mistake with your raise by pricing him in. Learn from your mistakes.

[shadesofgrey]

Originally Posted by 99%evil

I don't believe that there are an "true" random number generators. So the cards are not actually random. I think I saw a show on the History channel thart talked about how slot machines are not really random, a computer cannot spit out a random number, it has to be programmed to supposedly produce random numbers, but it cannot produce arbitrary numbers.

True random in a digital world is very tough indeed, but technology today is way more advanced than what was featured in that History channel show. - yes it is true, if there is a pattern (time of day/month) in the seed used to initiate the randon number generator the results may be reproduceable - if you're using a bad algorithm w/ a bad seed.

Consider this, without a "good" random number generator online encryption would be easily crackable & Internet commerce would come to a grinding halt. No more chips, ebay, online banking, trading stocks/bonds on the internet.

I dont know if the online sites use it, but I've seen work on using thermal noise to produce the random seed. Kind of hard to find patterns in noise

Randomness does not just give gamblers a headache. it bothers many other fields of study too.

I'd chalk this up as "poker". I've seen crazier - back to back straight flushes - playing two tables at once online and they each have the same flop (w/ same order).... spooky? maybe... I think the weaker sites have more people trying to suck out & therefore you see more cards.

[boondocker96]

I think Im through playing low $$ S&G's and such on PS.
Probably just tired of lame suckouts and bad beats, but whatever. Im big on knowing when to walk away.
Going to give Full Tilt a try. probably just a different site with the same results....who knows.... Maybe I just suck :cool:

[yeltzen]

Originally Posted by boondocker96

Maybe I just suck :cool:

That's pretty much the conclusion I reached for myself. I would go through, "maybe I should just stick to limit games, I'm better at those". That lasted a week then, "maybe I'm a better SnG player". Next week "okay limit games are defs my thing". "Okay maybe MTTs are where I should be". Around and around and around until you just stop the rationalizing and admit it: I suck! And I'm proud!

[boondocker96]

Originally Posted by yeltzen

I suck! And I'm proud!

WORD

[TheMightyJim2k]

you opponent only made one mistake. Calling on the flop. his initial preflop call was not bad considering pot odds and implied odds if he hits a set on the flop.

His call on the flop was poor as he should have realized he was behind and not getting pot odds, but he made a mistake, and more often than not that is going to pay you off. You want to encourage that.

But with trips on the turn his call makes sense if he puts you on
1. a pair
2. two pair
3. straight draw with a pair
4. flush draw with a pair
5. any kind of draw only

couple that with the fact that if he is wrong and you arent drawing (made straight) then he still has an ass load of outs which probably give him more than decent enough odds to call. He may have had you pegged as "another shitty only player who is bluffing or moving in with trash".

So all in all it wasnt the worst play in the world or even that tough of a beat. You got unlucky, but everyone does from time to time.