I will never play on empire poker ever again. (Long read)

[wiggs73]

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I have always had variance at the sit n go's. I understand that fully.

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I read about 1/3 of the way through your first post. I read a couple of the responses. I read the first line of this post.

It's very obvious that you DON'T understand variance at sit-n-go's. I'll try to be polite here because I'm sure you didn't mean to come across as annoying and I'm sure the majority of the responses aren't going to be the nicest in the world. But 12-15 OOTM is NOTHING in sit-n-go's. It's a bad run, but it's seriously nothing. Go search through some threads in the STT forum. You'll see 400 game losing streaks (not OOTM streaks, but 400 game down-swings nontheless). You'll see 20+ game OOTM streaks. You'll see worse than you thought was possible. And this is from winning players.

IMO, you just haven't played enough to get a true grasp of what variance really is. I can tell that from the little of your posts that I did read. It's OK, I know where you're coming from... I've been there myself. But until you accept that streaks like the one you just went through ARE a part of poker, you won't be able to survive this game for very long.

Go search through some old threads in the STT forum. Use the search function. And read this thread too. It might help a bit. My $.02.

- Wiggs

[jwvdcw]

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I have always had variance at the sit n go's. I understand that fully.

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I read about 1/3 of the way through your first post. I read a couple of the responses. I read the first line of this post.

It's very obvious that you DON'T understand variance at sit-n-go's. I'll try to be polite here because I'm sure you didn't mean to come across as annoying and I'm sure the majority of the responses aren't going to be the nicest in the world. But 12-15 OOTM is NOTHING in sit-n-go's. It's a bad run, but it's seriously nothing. Go search through some threads in the STT forum. You'll see 400 game losing streaks (not OOTM streaks, but 400 game down-swings nontheless). You'll see 20+ game OOTM streaks. You'll see worse than you thought was possible. And this is from winning players.

IMO, you just haven't played enough to get a true grasp of what variance really is. I can tell that from the little of your posts that I did read. It's OK, I know where you're coming from... I've been there myself. But until you accept that streaks like the one you just went through ARE a part of poker, you won't be able to survive this game for very long.

Go search through some old threads in the STT forum. Use the search function. And read this thread too. It might help a bit. My $.02.

- Wiggs

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This is a good post here.

Otherside, I have played poker seriously for about 3 years, 2 of which it was my entire source of income. During that time I have had quite a few terrible runs. I won't go too far into detail but I've gone broke twice, I've lost back-to back-to back tourneys on runner-runner bad beats, I've lost over $10000 in a day multiple times.

And you know what....theres a ton of people here that have had it even worse than me.

Many poker players don't realize just how close the line between luck and skill is. Its a lot more luck than you think probably. And thats a good thing because poker contains pretty much the perfect mix of luck and skill that keeps the bad players coming back.

Changing sites is not going to change anything. Moreover, your claims that you never tilt and that you are better at the higher limits because less people outdraw you are completely laughable, and its going to cause a lot of people here to not take you seriously.

Most likely, you're posting this because you want some support. If so, come out and say so. Just make a post asking for help and tell people that you have gone through a serious of bad beats and want some advice on how to best handle them. But you're not going to get much help doing things the way you are now.

If you truly do believe that Stars is "less rigged", then go ahead and make the switch. Even though its a ridiculous idea, if it gives you peace of mind and lets you play without that chip on your shoulder, then go ahead.

[HRFats]

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The purpose of this post is to see if anyone else still plays on empire and how their experience has been.

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I have had EXCELLENT results on Empire since the split. I mainly play $22's but sometimes play $55's (if that's where I see you on my buddy list). I also do better at 55's but prefer to play the $22's because I always see you their and took all your fcking money HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Amid Cent]

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I knew in advance that there were going to be some fools who would try to belittle me.

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"And with God as my witness, I am that fool!"

[MicroBob]

I didn't read the whole thing.
But I'm sorry to hear that you suck at poker.


Wonder how many e-mails party, empire, stars, etc gets that say "I've had it with your site. Fix your random card generator because it's so OBVIOUS that the cards don't run right (otherwise I would be winning)."


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I'm not going to say its fixed, but something doesnt seem right the way the cards have fallen.


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ummmm.....okay.

"It's not rigged. Except that it's rigged."



We really should consider a policy of locking/deleting some of these 'bad-beat/I can't win therefore it must be rigged' type threads.

[Art Vandelay]

For someone that's not complaining about bad beats you sure do a pretty good job making it seem like you are.

Why do people keep posting these threads? You know what the response is going to be.

[Synergistic Explosions]

Until you realize the DOOM SWITCH is real on Empire and take measures to force it to go off, you will continue to lose on Empire.

The DOOM SWITCH is the great equalizer, it allows weaker players to keep their money longer, and generate rake longer.

To mitigate the DOOM SWITCH factor, one must log off and on ten times consecutively.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

[TTChamp]

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To mitigate the DOOM SWITCH factor, one must log off and on ten times consecutively.

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No you are wrong. It is right, left, down, up , A, B, Start to turn off DOOM SWITCH.

Nice troll.

[DrNo888]

I hope I am using this correctly since it's my first time.

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