Have no read on the villain, because...

[gulebjorn]

I just joined the table / He just joined the table

A whole lot of posts are starting out like this recently. (if I am wrong about that part, don't bother reading the rest of my post) Usually, a story of a tough call, followed by a lost hand follows.

Since we play a LOT more hands when we've already sat at the table for some time, against players who've been sitting there for a while, it seems to me like something else is going on. Here are a few explanations i can think of:

a) small stakes NL is so read-dependant that most big losses occur at the beginning of a session, when you have no reads.
b) people post more hands at the beginning of a session.
c) people post hands after a session, but remember their first hands better
d) we don't pay enough attention to the game because we are multitabling/surfing the web/emailing/talking on the phone/watching tv/jacking off, but we just use the standard line cuz we don't want to confess this to our fellow posters

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