Being unlucky at poker!!

You are probably like me 'an unlucky sod' as you put it

Hi, randombob,
You might very well be unlucky.

Have a look at this:
http://pokerdope.com/poker-variance-calculator/

If you just go there and see the graph, you can see the influence of variance.
Using the same winrate, standard deviation and sample size, one lucky sod wins 7000+ BB another loses 7000+ BB and a whole host of others are in between.

This is just randomness, though -- I'm sure the graph generator took 72o up against AA a lot more often that either of us would.

But still, SOMEBODY has to be a luckbox.
It seems to me that the luckbox gets passed from player to player, but you never know when it is your turn.

Cheers,
--VS

You only remember your bad beats because that's what the human mind naturally does - remembers when something seemingly unfair happens to the individual much better than common stuff such as your AA holding. Given enough volume, a winning player will win an overwhelming majority of the time. Your time is better used studying the game rather than your bad beats.

Originally posted by NightShadePMC
You only remember your bad beats because that's what the human mind naturally does - remembers when something seemingly unfair happens to the individual much better than common stuff such as your AA holding. Given enough volume, a winning player will win an overwhelming majority of the time. Your time is better used studying the game rather than your bad beats.

I know people tend to remember their bad beats that is why I started to keep a record to see if I was just imagining it or not.

I'll carry on doing it for a while and see how it pans out

Luck is underrated in poker. If you play around with variance simulator you will see samples of like 20 players with the same skill level. You will then see the brown line indicating the most unlucky player. Now no matter how good you are if its your turn to be that guy with the brown line, you will gonna lose or break even at best. Even if you input your lifetime hands with over a million samples, there will always be a brown-line guy, and there is always the possibility that it could be you. This is the reason why even the very best players loses or experience 50-100K hands break even stretches. The same strategy but varying luck.

Its comforting to think that eventually variance will even out and we will win enough in the long run to cover our bad run. But no, poker sites will not remember our bad run. We could be fk on board run-outs, coolers, suck outs, etc. for an eternity and there is nothing we can do.

Only the stubborn winning-players survive so you better be one. ♦

Well, there are three known cures for a bad run: BRM, volume and skill. All are fully controllable.

In poker you will always lose far more often than win, you just need to make the best of with when you have a best hand.

I suggest to not pay attention on bad beats, if you multitable it's even real hard to notice it.

Originally posted by Paakjis
In poker you will always lose far more often than win, you just need to make the best of with when you have a best hand.

I suggest to not pay attention on bad beats, if you multitable it's even real hard to notice it.

Thanks for that, Paakjis,
It will go on my wall next to "Don't Panic!", and "Patience, Grasshopper"

Best of luck,
--VS