Re: Pokerstars Is Fixed
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When playing live I've never felt like I could call with anything and end up making a full house, or that I would lose with AA or KK after flopping trips with them again and again. H
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How much have you played live? If you take into consideration the amount of hands you see per hour live vs online, and the fact that your win rate in most live cash games is more than a comparable online game. It should be extremely easy to see why your seeing these results.
The last time I went to Vegas, I won 140bb's in two days, and lost it all in 6 hours. Playing the same stakes. Against the same level of players. Surely you've experienced something similar.
On a similar note, and to expand on the comment I just made. The win rates online are in most cases much lower than the same game live. For instance, if I played 5/10LHE live, and won less than 5bb/100 I'd be shocked. When I play online, 5/10LHE, if I won at 1.5bb/100 I'd be thrilled.
When you have a lower win rate, your standard deviation goes up, as does your variance. This will cause you to have amazingly ridiculous swings all the time, because the players are better, and you are not given the opportunities to expand on your edge. My personal guess is that your "true"(if you played infinity hands) win rate online is very small compared to your live win rate, therefore; when you combine that with the number of hands your playing per hour online(2-2.5x PER table) your swings seem huge in comparison.
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