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vnk wrote about poker stars /// ... BB comes to me before the hand suddenly a player is removed from the table in the middle and another one is seated instead with a stack of about 500-600k. The game begins. I get K8 spades suited on the BB. Everyone folds, this new guy raises 4 blinds, everyone folds, I think, in the end I call. The blinds were probably 5-10k. The flop comes 5 7 10 - all spades. I have a flush. I check this guy puts 90k into the pot all-in 400k. I think what could be wrong with him that he played like that, in the end I put him on AA most likely with one spade, since I have a ready flush I decide to call. We open up, he has KK, so my chances of winning are about 98% and what do you think. turn 10 river 10.

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This is one of many examples of how incomprehensible things happen. Oh well, I'll give you another example

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We were playing 11 - a $ rebuy tournament. There are up to 20 people left. I'm sitting on the button, everyone has equal stacks +-10% I get AA from the first position, another all-in flies from the middle of the table. I'm sitting with AA and thinking, if I bring the hand now, then I'll definitely have enough stack to qualify for the final table, it will be quite comfortable to sit. First place there was something in the range of 15,000-17,000K$. In short, I decide to call, we reveal. The first type is AQ offsuit, the second is AQ offsuit. In total, our chances of winning are more than 95%. Flop 10 JK turn river blanks. So goodbye, come again. Okay, I'll tell you one more hand: The game is a $5 tournament, the field, I don't remember exactly, is about 1000-1500 people. There are 10 people left. Everyone is playing cautiously. My chips are slightly below the average stack. 240-290K. I don't remember exactly. I'm sitting and thinking that I should double up in order to sit normally at the final table.

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The BB comes at me, they deal 99 (hooks) A huge raise of 5 blinds flies from the middle of the table. I think how to play it, in the end I decide to call in anticipation of a set. Or play according to the situation. Flop: 5 9 J my first thought is "there is justice in this world, damn it" I check. An all-in overbet immediately flies at me. I'm sitting there again, thinking and trying to make up his hand, but what is there to think about if you have a set from the flop. I call, we show down to his JJ. Well, no way :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored: what the hell is this. The chances of flying set into set from the flop are 2% and this is exactly what happens to me in the pre-final. PokerStars shows the magic of cards once again. I fly out in 10th place.

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I don’t even want to remember the rest, so as not to remember this pain again... Well, it’s clear that in the early and middle stages I had a lot of such moments. But why won’t the RNG play in my favor in the pre-final? When you sweat for 8-10 hours, and then some jerk punishes you so cruelly, it’s not even about being out, but about the percentage ratio 98% for winning, this is practically a guarantee of success in a normal situation. But for some reason in PS it doesn't mean anything. 50 to 1, well that's just a mockery. How can you not win 50 to 1 at such a crucial moment?. Master-loser.

Made me smile: Played my first session there 1800 hands with minuses of three bucks. Came out in the plus in 5k hands for 14 bucks The goal is to make 300 bucks in 30 days in poker from a hundred bucks ............ fucked up People have nowhere to spend their time?

TTR By the way, I'm incredibly glad that I quit poker, I'll explain why now. I had a similar issue, let's say I had some money, like 10k on bookers. I think - I need to get some money, I deposit 50 bucks - I go to PL100, I lose it in 1 hand - I deposit 200, then 500, then 2k and 5k and I lose all my money. In a casino, I deposit 50 bucks, spin it for a normal amount of time, I win - I withdraw, I lose - I go to another one and deposit the same 50 bucks. Unlike poker, here you can't screw up the result in 1 hand. More precisely, there is roulette and blackjack, so this is like poker or even worse, you CANNOT PLAY them! You can only play slots, where if the casino gives, then you can get a lot even with a small bet. + you also understand that you are playing in the minus and the casino basically pushes, so with a small win - you take it calmly and leave without putty, in poker it is very difficult to stop, for example. For me personally, the casino is 100 times more plus than poker, because I deposit 50-100 bucks and enjoy the game without the risk of losing all the money. By the way, if you get putty in a casino, then you probably don't know that I am 100% sure that there is a putty filter there, when it turns on - you don't win anything at all! Therefore, you should always play in casinos without putty The poker question - closed forever.

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It finally dawned on me that there is no point in playing in a casino at stakes higher than $ 5-10. For a casino, this is the limit. If you want to go higher, you need to find other things

Poker was and is considered the most "dangerous" game in terms of possible fraud. If in all other games the casino client acts most of the time as an observer of the game process (visually assesses the strength of a particular bet on blackjack, since the cards are dealt face up, watches the ball spin in the roulette wheel and tries to "calculate" the fall sector, making bets on the playing field), then poker is the only game in which the player must take the cards in his hands to decide on the fate of the initial bet (ante). It is at the moment when the cards are in the player's hands that the greatest danger is concentrated. It is important that all the cards are above the table in the field of vision of the croupier and the inspector (a casino employee from among the croupiers, whose duties include monitoring the situation at the gaming table). It is unacceptable, having taken the cards in your hands, to get up and leave the table or to hold some of the cards in your hands, and, for example, put the other ones on your lap or give them to your neighbor to hold. Cards dealt to a box with the inscription "Ante" can be taken only by one person (even if a guy and a girl come and the girl does not understand anything about poker, then her companion, explaining what and how to do, cannot allow her to take 3 cards out of 5, and himself to look at 2). Due to the potential threat lurking in the possibility of committing any machinations with the cards, in many gambling establishments there was a "classic" ban on playing poker on 2 boxes.

I didn't feel like sitting at home, so I decided to "check the suit" and have a drink or two to lift my spirits. There was a casino in the hotel five minutes' walk from the entrance to my house. The game was played in rubles. I wanted to stretch out my stay and not immediately put all my money into the game. That's why I chose the most "calm" and leisurely game - poker. There was only one free seat at the poker table, on the last box, and I took it. The game was led by a girl dealer, and next to her, on a high chair, more reminiscent of a royal throne, sat a young inspector. The game was neither here nor there with a slight advantage (quite legal and justified) in favor of the dealer. There were no large payouts, no interesting combinations were shown, and ante after ante our chips migrated to the dealer's fleet[4]. A spirit of discontent began to grow at the table, usually expressed with strong swear words or a whole tirade directed at the dealer. When the girl dealer opened a straight combination (popularly called "straight" - five cards of different suits in ascending order) and "killed" most of the boxes playing in this hand (I, fortunately, did not find a combination in my cards, and did not bluff and simply threw them away along with the ante), the usual muttering under the breath with a list of all the actions that will be or have already been committed with her and her closest relatives, stopped and a crazy scream began. One representative of the Caucasian republics who had played out and unsuccessfully performed in this game (by the way, this hotel, built for the 1980 Olympics, was and is under the "roof" of people from Transcaucasia) very zealously expressed his displeasure and demanded an immediate change of the dealer. A Russian-speaking young man in a gray suit approached the table and tried to calm down those gathered. Having listened to the strict demands for an immediate change of the dealer, he let go as the girl, as well as the boy inspector, and he himself stood at the table. Those gathered did not react in any way to the fact that now the game was being conducted by a person occupying a leadership position in the casino hierarchy. No one had any respect for his jacket. The same monotonous muttering about the hands, face and relatives of the newly arrived dealer did not stop for a second: it would either die down a little or flare up with renewed vigor, depending on the payouts taking place at the table. The guy in the jacket abstracted himself from everything around him, showing with his whole appearance that he did not hear anything and all the words were not about him at all. Meanwhile, my stock of chips decreased a little. Nothing worthy of a good payout came to me, and I had not seen a combination better than a pair of tens in an hour of play. And so, opening the cards, I find a pair of aces there! Despite the fact that it is forbidden (looking at other people's cards, as well as exchanging information about your cards is strictly prohibited!), I am happy to share the joy of my neighbor at the table, who has a pair of kings. His comrade also has a king, but there is also some small pair. Everyone decides to place a bet [5]. There is a "friendly" atmosphere at the table, all the participants in the game know that someone has one queen (one of the dealer's five cards is always put up, and in this deal it was the queen that was up), and almost everyone places a bet. The "jacket" turns over his cards and puts forward a combination - three queens!!! A sigh of disappointment is heard at the table - it is difficult to imagine that someone has something more! Some in their hearts sharply move their losing cards and bets in the direction of the dealer, someone is waiting for the dealer to reveal his cards and suddenly there will be something unseen there. First, the dealer collects the bets that have been recognized as losers by their owners. He has the right not to open the cards pushed in his direction and, before taking them, must check the presence of all the chips participating in the game on this box and first take them, and then only the cards. Further payment for the boxes occurs from left to right (the box furthest from the inspector's chair is paid first). After our croupier performed the pleasant procedure of "hilling" the pushed boxes, he opened my cards (since I was sitting at the last box and it was necessary to start comparing the combinations with me) and made sure that my pair of aces was weaker than his trio of queens, and put the chips in the fleet. I was just about to sympathize with my neighbor with a pair of kings, when - oh, miracle! His two kings multiplied, and there were three of them!!! I could not believe my eyes! I saw his cards! And there were only two of them! How could this happen? In fact, the chest was simply opened. His comrade, as I said earlier, had a small pair. He still had it, only the king jumped from his box to the neighboring one. As a result of this little scam, my neighbors on the left won 2 bets or 4 ante for two and were very pleased with themselves.