Re: is there a such thing as an unlucky person???
To underline and expand upon a point that Henke made, as much as we love to see pocket aces, they get cracked more often than we like. (Jones says 1/3 of the time, I think, but it could be 2/3.) But the rest of the time they don't, we take down the pot from some fish betting his pair of tens, and then we forget the hand ever happened. It's when we lose that it sticks with us.
I'm happy to be corrected on the subject of pocket jacks, but I've become increasingly skeptical of their value in a low-limit game. When players hang on with Ax down to garbage like Q7, there are twelve cards out there that can beat you. It doesn't make the game better or worse, but it does change the way we have to play.
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