I couldn’t do anything right tonight on FTP (or should I say I couldn’t do anything to prevent continuously receiving ridiculously bad beats). These are the nights that I honestly wonder what the deal is with the absolutely stupid amount of bad beats in online poker. I understand that you are seeing more hands therefor you are more likely to see bad beats, blah blah blah. I’m not buying that reason.
Besides the bad beats, you might as well not even play a pocket pair of 10s or lower. The number of face cards that hit the flop in online poker is unbelievable. Online, I give hands like QK, JQ, etc waaaaaaay more worth than in real life, because it’s almost a given that you are going to flop some face cards. It’s utterly ridiculous.
If it weren’t so convenient to play online, I wouldn’t. I promise you that. It’s like you are playing a completely different game. A lot of the skill goes out the window because it really doesn’t matter if you have the best hand, because that’s probably not the one that is going to win. It’s kind of like playing bingo. And the players online are willing to chase all the way down to the river.
On my final hand of the night on FTP tonight, I was short stacked with pocket 3s. I limp under the gun and it folds to the BB, who raises it. I call. The flop comes 4 7 8. I check, he bets, I call. The turn is a 2. I bet, he reraises me all in. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have anything so I call. Sure enough, I made the right read, the right call, as he had K 6. Nothing but a gutshot. Then the river came. All together now…… a 4. He hit his gutshot straight on the river to knock me out. Nice.