is it just me or does the small stack on stars always BUST OUT

[betgo]

It's not you. Poker Stars is rigged so that the tournaments will finish faster by busting the small stacks.

its me!!!

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just you...

i always seem to do decently well when i'm shortstacked.

doesn't feel like the odds are against me.

(Oh, and you're paranoid)

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just you...

i always seem to do decently well when i'm shortstacked.

doesn't feel like the odds are against me.

(Oh, and you're paranoid)

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STOP LOOKING AT ME!!!!!!!!

[illegit]

When a big stack has a short stack all-in you don't take as much notice when the small stack wins because no one got knocked out as the big stack was not at risk for his tourney life. So it's probably just a psychological thing i.e. knock-out hands get more attention from you and you unknowingly glaze over non-knockout double up hands. I assure if you actually tracked the results of coinflips or 80/20s all-in PF, big stack vs. short stack the results would be exactly what you'd expect.

[Koss]

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It seems like as small stack your days are numbered. There are exceptions. Last night I had gotten down to around $120 in an early round and was able to scratch my way back to around $11000. That has been the exception.


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I was at that table, the whole time thinking "Why do these people just keep GIVING him their chips?" Seriously though, nice comeback. You get credit for the suckout because you were aggressive [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Some advice on your next to last hand. KTo is way to weak to be calling a 4XBB raise from an EP raiser. The guy had been raising his strong hands and limping his mediocre ones, so I think you have to give him credit here. If you're going to bluff on the flop, you have to bet more than that, especially against a loose calling station. But why on earth did you call that river bet when calling left you with less than 1BB? Were you just not paying attention? You've got to either move all in with that one or fold.

online is rigged

[betgo]

If there is one online site I am sure is not rigged, it is Stars. They seem to be geared towards good players, which sometimes makes their competition tougher. I have cashed out many times and do well after cashing out.

[nath]

This post makes no sense. Are the big stacks supposed to bust out when they lose an all-in to the short stacks?

Also, how do you find the time to play billions of tournaments? And more importantly, if you think Stars is rigged, why didn't you stop after the first few hundred million-- wouldn't that be an adequate sample size?

[Jurollo]

I wish I would have seen this thread before there were any replies, I would have deleted it in a second.
~Justin