[AlanBostick]

One answer is: that's why we play this game, because of the opportunities for punishment it affords us [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

Another answer is: If other players are making sevens more often than you are, is this an indication that you're drawing too rough? It's one thing when you spike a ten on the river when you were drawing to 2345 all along, check-call, and lose to your opponents 76542. It's quite another when you catch an eight on an early draw to go with the 7653 you started with and the villain gets two chances to outdraw your roughest of eights.