Poker

[CuseFan10]

Originally Posted by JohnnyMapleLeaf

Haven't played online in months. Too frustrating. They call everything, and the computer program seems to bail players out more than real games. Does it just seem that way?

Everyone online bitches about this I feel like, but there's a simple reason why it seems so. You see so many more hands online because it's so much faster. I used to play on PokerStars and the retards there call it RiverStars cause they think the hand behind wins some insane percent of the time. It doesn't. There's millions of hands a day, and you just see so many more because of the speed so obviously you're going to come across more bad beats because of the greater number of hands you see per hour as opposed to home game or casino. You can see upwards of 70-80 hands an hour on the computer at one table, nevermind sitting playing two tables or something (or more), whereas in a home game you probably get half that amount per hour.

[JohnnyMapleLeaf]

Originally Posted by CuseFan10

Everyone online bitches about this I feel like, but there's a simple reason why it seems so. You see so many more hands online because it's so much faster. I used to play on PokerStars and the retards there call it RiverStars cause they think the hand behind wins some insane percent of the time. It doesn't. There's millions of hands a day, and you just see so many more because of the speed so obviously you're going to come across more bad beats because of the greater number of hands you see per hour as opposed to home game or casino. You can see upwards of 70-80 hands an hour on the computer at one table, nevermind sitting playing two tables or something (or more), whereas in a home game you probably get half that amount per hour.

Maybe so....and there are more chasers and callers as well it seems, so I guess the number of bad beats will increase as well...just because of the volume of that style of play. When you lose a monster hand that way, I guess it just seems like it happens more often, b/c you don't remember the times you weren't rivered, and the chaser gave up cash in a dumb way....lol