Re: WPEX is rigged 100%
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So you've been playing for well over ten years; you don't know what "rolled up" means; you joined Twoplustwo today; your first posts are about how WSEx is rigged against you; you didn't bother to find out how to save hands at WSEx; you cannot post one relevant hand number.
You sound like a Pacific Support-guy to me, but I won't pursue that one, and I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are simply being beaten soundly by the players at WSEx.
My opinion is that you have been a self-taught casual social player for your ten years and you have managed to lose only a relatively small amount every month by reasonably cautious play at sites like Party where most of the players are like you.
Recently, you've somehow strayed into WSEx and found that you are not as good as you thought you were, and you have discovered that you are outclassed and outplayed by the better players there, who are mostly condensed into a small number of games.
You like the game, and you are puzzled, so I would guess that you have just googled "poker strategy", or somesuch, and have ended up in the Zoo, (instead of in the strategy forums, where you should be).
I'd bet my boots that you don't have PokerTracker and you couldn't post a meaningful screenshot of your playing statistics.
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Nah.
Forget all that.
Which site/affiliate do you work for?
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"Which site/affiliate do you work for?"
None Sherlock - LOL. But you got some of your post right.
I had thought about the possibility of collusion at the table, and I realize that can occur. No, this had to do with the dealing of the cards. Yes, I should have kept the hand history but hand histories never really interested me, only winning money interests me. But how could I have known in advance this was going to happen. And I've already ackowledged that it's "possible" that I just had the variance from hell. But I mean getting beat by four of a kind twice within five minutes? How often do you see four of a kind at a table? And how often do you stay in the hand all the way and get beat by it? Both times only a pair, not trips showed on the table. Both times the player had it rolled up (I'll say "pocket" from now on so you don't get a heart attack over it - LOL). Both times the last card of the quad showed on the river. But this wasn't all you see...I can't even remember how many flushes and straights I lost to full houses...had to of been roughly ten times - each time the player had a pocket pair. The other players were getting pocket pairs like a pinochle deck was being used for their hole cards.
The part you got right is that yes I've been as you call it mostly a "social" player - but not "casual" as I've played a lot of poker. Online not nearly as much - maybe I've played 1,000 hours at other sites. And this one time at WPEX was around five hours.
I don't like to lose but accept that as part of the game - you can't always win. But I've never seen cards like these ever in my life. It was the "pattern" of the cards, not the losing that bugged me. How much I lost at WPEX is my business, not yours, but suffice to say I have lost and won over ten times that amount previously many times both online and b&m.
It wasn't the money that bothered me...it was the way it was lost. I'd be most happy to plunk $20 down and buy anyone here the first round anytime, but if a thief steals $20 out of my pocket, that angers me. Maybe I'm wrong and WPEX is honest...I would love to play rake free poker but my bettor instincts are telling me that something at WPEX isn't right.
Jim
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