do some people really have better luck?(rant... be prepared)

[elmitchbo]

i've been thinking about it lately. i never seem to win the 50/50. it seems like my AA is the one that gets busted, but when i face AA i lose. is it in anyway possible that some people actually have better luck?

i just played my weekly home game. very frustrating. i seem to come out on the losing end week after week. i know that there's not another player there that could give you an explanation of pot odds, or any other basic poker principle. i do the right things... i bet enough to make others make mistakes according to the theory of poker... but i always get sucked out on. anybody could be playing anything, and call big raises with it all the way to a showdown. it's amazing how often people win playing like that! that's part of the reasoning behind my new 'junk card' theory. bad hands aren't that bad... just be aggressive and you'll be amazed how often you win. but i think lady luck may be plotting against me. actually, i think i may just have a hard time being aggressive enough in live play.

i would like to think that i've gotten used to the speed of online play, and that bad beats in real life are a different story. after all, it's a slow game... maybe 40 hands per hour... so i think it could take a year or more to know who is actually beating the game. never the less, it's hard to not feel like other players are 'luckier' than i am.

sometimes i feel that way online too. do some players have better luck, or are they just better players? i mean, how can you actually be a better player when you call an all-in with 95o and catch a full house to beat KK? it happens all the time. am i too timid a player to make those tpes of gambles? or will everything level off in the loooooonnngg ruuuuuuuunnn? hopefully the latter. poker is a cruel mistress.