Ever feel like giving up.............

[dico]

Entered two MTT's on laddies last night.

Roughly 2 hours into both and approaching the money.........

First off I get dealt pocket 10's. I raise 5/6 x the BB.

I get 2 callers. Flop 2 5 10 - bingo trip 10's.

I bet the pot, one guy folds and the other goes all in. I call he turns over AK.

Turn - J
River - Q

He wins with a straight

At about the same time on the other table some maniac is raising again. He had been doing this with very marginal hands. I get pocket jacks and so put him all in. He turns over pocket 5's and you can guess who made trips

Anybody else ever think the worlds against them

[AJ]

We've all had those days, then sometimes you hit a perfect day when you can do nothing wrong. It's variance, no getting away from it.

Mitagate the bad, maximise the good. You'll be fine over time

[dico]

Originally Posted by AJ

We've all had those days, then sometimes you hit a perfect day when you can do nothing wrong. It's variance, no getting away from it.

Mitagate the bad, maximise the good. You'll be fine over time

I know what your saying mate but I didn't do anything wrong

I don't mind losing when I make a bad decision but I did the right thing and still lost.

I know on another day I will get lucky (swings and roundabouts) and hit runner runner it's just bloody frustrating at the time

I'll be back for more at the weekend

[SteveO]

You do know that Internet Poker's rigged don't you! I remember nearly smashing my system up when I flopped quad 5,s and the guy hit a str8 flush on the turn for a £400 pot. That was nice.

[GotaFancy?]

Was looking last night at the winning (and losing) final hands at the WSOP Main event - there was a period of 7 years where the event was won by the worst hand ..... that's just poker.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series_of_Poker

1995	Dan Harrington 9♦ 8♦	1,000,000	273	Howard Goldfarb A♥ 7♣
1996	Huck Seed 9♦ 8♦	1,000,000	295	Bruce Van Horn K♣ 8♣
1997	Stu Ungar A♥ 4♣	1,000,000	312	John Strzemp A♠ 8♣
1998	Scotty Nguyen J♦ 9♣	1,000,000	350	Kevin McBride Q♥ 10♥
1999	Noel Furlong 5♣ 5♦	1,000,000	393	Alan Goehring 6♥ 6♣
2000	Chris Ferguson A♠ 9♣	1,500,000	512	T. J. Cloutier A♦ Q♣
2001	Juan Carlos Mortensen K♣ Q♣	1,500,000	613	Dewey Tomko A♠ A♥

[SteveO]

Of those hands Gaf statistically is 55 vs 66 actually the worst bad beat?

[GotaFancy?]

No, the AA v KQs is slightly worse (whcih surprises me - I was with you and thought the 66v55 was the worst)

Of course we dont know when the money went in - the "underdog" may have been ahead when the bets were made.....