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

[BeerMoney]

I think some players are luckier than others perhaps over the course of the year. Some people are going to be in the top 5% luckiest, and some will be in the bottom 5% unluckiest. If you were at a roulette wheel, and lost 15 out of 16 betting on red, that would be cruddy luck. It would take a while for that all to balance out.

Look at what can happen in poker..

You can be patient and wait for good hands.. only for them to get cracked..

You can build up some pots with draws that never come in..

Your draws can come in and you still lose.

You can go cold flopping sets..

When you do flop a set no one is in the pot

When you flop a set some chump cathes runner's for a straight..

You run into a bigger set.

You flop a flush and get run down by an ace of that flush.

You raise AK and totally miss the flop

AA gets cracked, and cracked again.

You get a huge hand, only to run into a bigger hand..

You get a huge hand and no one calls..


just chill out man, you can run bad for a long time, and the long run truly is long. However, things will even out. And you will run hot, and things will go "as their supposed to."

My friend won $1100 playing 3/6 in his first week on Party. (He has a good amount of experience playing, he's read books, he's a solid player, IMO.) It looked like he was going to own party poker in another week. And then, the cards stopped coming! He's back down to $350. He's no longer king of the world. He's the same player he was a week ago, if not better. He's just running cold.