[Ray Of Light]

"When it gets heads up regularly the person with the worst hand will suck out and win."

-- Have you ever bothered to check up on some of the odds for many of those hands? Preflop, often times the favourite hand has around 65% (2-1) chance of winning. Even overwhelmingly favoured hands have around an 80% (4-1) chance of taking down the pot. In other words, when the underdog sucks out, it isn't really that big of a surprise. My god, the way some players act, they think that their 'favourite' hand should win 99.93% of the time. This just shows a needless ignorance about the odds of the game.

"This may be because the hand algorithm is so advanced that it tries to make up for the lesser hand to make it competitive but regualarly goes too far?"

-- What are you basing this argument on. Your (seemingly poor) knowledge of poker odds? Sit down with something like pokerstove, and crunch some numbers, comparing hands before the flop and on the flop.

"Anytime I have taken a break and then gone back I have run extremely well, is this because I was fresh or is it because I've been gone for a while and pokerstars wants to get me back again?"

-- Its because you are playing with less frustration and impatience having taken a break, than if you were sitting down to play right after having gone on a 300BB downstreak. There is a reason why top poker players always recommend taking a break from the game when you are having a tough time at the tables.

"Any time I have had to reload I have run extremely well - points back to luck factor?"

-- I find that when I have to reload, I am focused on playing even better poker, simply because I am now glaringly aware that I am losing at that point in time (hence having to reload). So unless I am tilting, I actually play better. Its that old adage, people tend to only work on their game when they're losing, and get lazy when they are winning.


End of the day, whatever a man thinketh so it shall be. If you believe that you are losing because the game is rigged, you are going to make needless mistakes (like slowplying when you should bet and such, which leaves money on the table), because you are always thinking that you are going to get outdrawn or such.

Just play the game, don't let the game play you.