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Originally Posted by enter_issues  Of course poker is how you play your cards, but as I said before, some situations require you to go all in pre-flop (short stacked needing to double up) so it boils down to odds and luck after someone calls you - and for many people it seems (my hand history included) highly favored hands get busted out much too often (refer to my older posts for how much "too often" is...) from bad calls. |
Agreed. It's not about how often you get AA cracked or how often 77 beats QQ.
It's about odds defying suckouts at an insane rate. Suckouts should follow the odds that have been calculated to a large extent. Sure, some nights it will happen more often than others, but we're talking about 10% or less odds against 90% odds hands going up to maybe 70/30.
When you're playing TIGHT, night after night and the odds are more like 80/20 against your excellent hands even AFTER the flop hits you well, somethings very, very wrong. When you can go 20 tournaments without winning an all in when you're playing nothing but AQ or better, and getting called with J8os all night, something is very very wrong.
The real irony is that you'll cruise along making money, hitting the money night after night, then someone flips a switch and your old routine of tight/aggressive just simply won't do the job. Lasts 3 or 4 days, then back to normal.
It's truly a joke on us. And I have no idea how some of them make money. I found a few players that have made tens of thousands on PS so I follow them around a bit and sit at their tables. They play the same poker I play, they just don't get sucked out on nearly as much.