Things about poker I never knew until I started playing FTP

[PJo336]

or...ITS RIGGED

[pokerchap]

my ftp name is pokers rigged.

[tautomer]

Don't forget the 85% chance they will hit their 3 outer on the river when you have them dominated.

[realjaydub]

If you hold 66 and the board comes 6 4 10 and you push all in and get called by ak; chances are the turn will be a j and the river will be a q 100% of the time.

[DLizzle]

poker players have 4 expressions; angry, happy, confused, normal

[Salerosa]

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you're prob a nit, lol wambulance

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This is a silly assumption. I am simply tired of my Sklanksy bucks having no cash value over my last 40k hands.

[Chopper Dave]

Please understand that there is no "doom switch" but there
certainly is statistical variance. It is only when speaking of tens of
thousands of hands that personal statistics begin to approach its
theoretical expectation. For players that play this game for a living,
it is imperative that they keep a very large bankroll to endure such
fluctuation.

It is well known that an excellent player that may win from 1 to 2 big
bets an hour playing limit can lose 300-500 big bets, and a winning
no-limit player can endure a run of 20 or more buy-in losses, again due
to variance. In sit and gos, 20 to 30 session droughts in which a
player
does not cash is not uncommon. These are taken into account, and
professionals are very conscientious of when to move down limits to
lower their risk of ruination to a reasonable level. Knowledge of these
statistics will not make these players immune to bad beats--nobody
is--however, they will react better when these inevitable bad runs do
occur.

Also, these same players are very honest with themselves, analyzing
when
they are running bad, and when they are playing bad. It is often the
level of honesty that separates an excellent player from someone who is
merely above average.

[osiris]

This thread rings a little too close to home!

this is a recent hand from FTP:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, $0.10 BB (8 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: 2+2 Forums)

Button ($10)
SB ($4.20)
BB ($7.15)
UTG ($20.20)
Hero ($5.60)
MP1 ($2.35)
MP2 ($8.55)
CO ($4.80)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+1 with A[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $0.4</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">MP2 raises to $0.7</font>, <font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to $6 (All-In)</font>, MP2 calls $4.90.

Flop: ($11.75) 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Turn: ($11.75) J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: ($11.75) Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: $11.75

Here's the results: (FTR converter isn't displaying them properly)
dnbosiris shows three of a kind, Aces
rocket1331 shows a straight, Ace high
rocket1331 wins the pot ($10.25) with a straight, Ace high
rocket1331: wow
LBurrows: ouch
dnbosiris is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $11.35 | Rake $1.10
Board: [2s Td Ad Jc Qs]
Seat 1: soarsoar (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: Conradicals (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: PokerStuds101 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: LBurrows didn't bet (folded)
Seat 5: dnbosiris showed [As Ah] and lost with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 6: greeny01 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: rocket1331 showed [Kc Tc] and won ($10.25) with a straight, Ace high
Seat 8: leonardo84 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: bennybx is sitting out

[EgoSlasher]

there goes 5.00$ you will never see again

[Lurker.]

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the only reason people think online poker is rigged is because they are playing a bajillion more hands than they would live and only remember all of the so called "rigged" hands....or they suck

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No, it's actually just rigged. Just FTP though. Only some stars players get doomswitched though, so try your luck there.