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June 23, 2004
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Well I got another sucker to play me heads up tonight. He put a couple bad beats on me at the 6 max table by doing things like calling raises with K 8 off, so I started trash talking him a bit. He started telling me how bad I was, so I challenged him to heads up and he actually played. This was the first time I've caught a sucker at this limit, so I was happy. Unfortunately he only had $220 in his account, but this allowed me to bust him and get back to my 6 max games before my seat got pulled.
It always cracks me up when people as bad as this guy (his name was dwestgate) think they are some kind of sharks. It is sure a good thing for me I suppose, because if they didn’t they would never play 15/30 heads up. It just makes me wonder how many people out there can really be winners at this game. Pokertracker makes it appear that about 15% of my opponents are winners, yet somewhere between 80 and 100 percent think they are. How can this be possible?
In real life I can see how people can delude themselves into thinking they are winners when they are not. When you win the cash goes straight into your pocket. You buy things with it. When you lose the money comes straight out of your pocket. No paper trail involved. When you run out of cash it is simply because you spent too much, and you go to the ATM and get a refill or two. You have no account balance to look at everyday (as you do on Party).
Online however all of the information is right there in front of you. The only thing I can think of is that the average person buys in and cashes out so many times that they lose track of how much they are in for. The history function only shows you the last 20 transactions or so making it easy to forget all of those buy-ins.
In related news I got a sucker to accuse me of being a house shill today. Apparently I won every hand (despite the fact that I got pocket kings 4 times there in one hour and won zero of them) and every draw I had (which in reality was the best hand on every street, but improved on the river) came in. This is why this player (Hollidaydoc) loses on Party Poker, not because he never ever presses the fold button.
This leads me to a theory I came up with the other day. It is that there are 3 types of online poker players.
1. People who actually win.
2. People who lose but think they win.
3. People who think online poker is rigged.
If you find someone who is outside of this group please let me know. Until then I’ll be playing heads up 15/30 with the members of group 2.
Posted by themaroon at June 23, 2004 8:33 AM
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There are even some people who are in both groups 2 and 3. They lose, but think they win, and think they would win more if the game wasn't rigged.
These people can't remember all the times that the flop hit no-one and everyone folded to the one person who decided to put out a feeler bet with ace high.
Posted by: phriedom at June 23, 2004 10:22 AM