Is this a coincidence?
Played all night last night at PokerStars. I had an awesome night. Ended up about 25% of my total deposit. I got dealt a lot of crappy hands. It felt like I was dealt crappy hands more often than I am usually dealt on FullTilt. Made folding easy. Am I upset at the bad hands? No. Because when I played a hand, it played mostly as I expected it. I lost when I pushed things too hard. I won when I had the best hand. Sometimes when I had a draw I got it, sometimes I didn’t. They played out at about the frequency the odds say they should (with one exception: I got in about 5 times with open ended straight and flush draws, which should offer better than 50% odds to me on the turn and one won one of them, but that’s statistically possible). I even had pocket aces hold up twice. Ahhh…PokerStars.
One time I had a very good draw and got all in with a guy in a tournament and picked up my draw on the river (I had 7c 8c and the flop came 6c 8h 9c and he had QQ…I hit a 7 on the river for the ugly way to win). The comment window lit up with comments like “that’s just like this site” and “RiverStars”. From my perspective that was a totally reasonable way for the cards to fall. He was overvaluing his over pair and I had a ton of outs. Either way, it did tell me that people believe the same thing no matter where they play and maybe it is just coincidence that I ran bad at FT and am running good at PS. I probably won’t go back just yet either.
