I just don’t have time or energy to track my hands. all I know is what I go through everyday on here. some seem to not believe me, its ok, I know I’m not making stuff up, why would I?
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any tips how to stop playing on here? honestly I can’t take this anymore. get depressed playing here. tired of getting bad cards after bad cards and when program does decide give me a playable hand it misses as usual. when it does give me 3 of a kind, straights, flushes it gets beat anyway. used to be fun, but now its just stressful and depressing.
Every time you flop a set, the turn and river make a 4 straight on the board
Every time you flop a flush, the turn and river put trips on the board
Every time you have JJ the flop is AKQ all the same suit
Every time you get it in AA vs AQ the flop is QQx
The only winning move is not to play
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Everyone on this thread should watch this video. If you can’t handle getting AA cracked 20% of the time or getting bad beats on the river, poker is probably not the game for you.
Edit: Also, the 20% of the time is if you get all your chips in with aces before the flop. If you bet 1 big blind and go to the flop with 5 callers, you will lose a lot more often than that.
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not talking about aces getting cracked 20% of the time. talking bout any hand I hit gets beat regardless what I do. its just not one bad tournament/day/week. it happens every single day. it used to be fun, but not anymore.
Variance can suck, no doubt. But it is also what makes for huge wins at times. For example, a good live 5/10 NL player makes 5-10 BB’s per hour. But to end up with an average of winning 5-10 BB’s per hour there are going to be samples within the total data set that are wildly positive and negative (aka variance).
Example log
Day 1 - 5 hours played, +1800
Day 2 - 7 hours played, +4000
Day 3 - 10 hours played, -4500
Day 4 - 6 hours played, -3000
Day 5 - 4 hours played, +1000
Day 6 - 7 hours played, +1200
Day 7 - 5 hours played, +3500
Day 8 - 6 hours played, +1100
Day 9 - 6 hours played, -3000
Day 10 - 5 hours played, +4000
Net +6100
Hours 61
Avg $100/hour
The point of this is to show that variance is the lifeblood of poker and is unavoidable. As players we are going to have stretches where we raise KK and get 4 callers preflop, and have to check/fold on A high flops time after time; or get AA all in preflop against AK and the board runs out 2 K’s or QJT in the only big pot all night. But we will also have stretches where it seems like every time we have AA, we get to 3bet/4bet and our opponents always call with KK; or we have JJ and call 3 bet vs AA and stack our opponent when we flop a set.
Variance goes both ways. And all of us tend to forget this when we are on a losing stretch, when it feels like no matter what we do we can’t seem to win. Every time that I run into a losing stretch like this, I have to remind myself of this, so that I can clearly look back and analyze my play objectively, so that I can see if my losing is running bad or playing bad. Honestly, it always seems to be some kind of a mix of the two.
I am still new to this site, but I think that the players here are the closest to real money players that I have ever seen in any other play money site. And I have outdrawn my opponents just as much as they have outdrawn me on this site.
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lol yeah ok
Why do you think that the stealth algorithm that determines how everyone’s hands will go has singled you out? What would be the point?
And for that matter, how does it actually manage to single players out to mess with without causing statistical anomalies across the board so egregious and obvious that they would even make Mike Postle blush?
I bet if you applied Benford’s Law to the stats that they would pass as legit.
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lots of things make me believe this. I don’t know why, but yeah it singles me out
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last 3 times I’ve flopped 3 of a kind they’ve ended up losing. this being the latest one. in SB 1500 with 7-10, already in payouts figured why not another 1500. I miss, I simply get out of the hand on flop. I get a beautiful flop, I check looking set trap, it worked as someone shoved all, nothing to think about, so I instant called. yup get screwed over. I forgot, I also flopped a fullhouse and course it ends up losing on river
You are going to win that hand 91% of the time, but that means that if you ran the hand over again 100 times, you would still lose 9 times by chance. People seem to lose sight of the fact that improbable events occur frequently. That says nothing about the site being unfair (although it does say something about why limping T7o is a bad idea).
If you go all in before the flop with AKs, one of the top 5 starting hands in poker, and your foolish opponent calls with 95o, they will win a full 1/3 of the time. That is a pretty significant percentage of the time. The skill in poker is making those percentages work for you in the long run rather than dwelling on individual situations, which rely on chance.
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sure whatever, but lets not say how bad idea was for KK To limp in and then suck out . its ok though, I’m just not gonna play anymore.
thank you replay, but the stress and frustration isn’t worth it anymore.
Of course it is not a good idea to limp KK, but that didn’t seem relevant. Sorry to hear that you are stressed.
its relevant because if the player had raised any, I fold, but course not and I hit the flop very good only to get screwed over just like with any hand I hit.
I’m stressed of losing any hand I hit regardless how I play it.
Honestly, if you are limping T7o, I have to assume that sometimes you win with these kind of hands. Don’t focus on the ones you lose and you’ll be able to enjoy the game and quit stressing over it. I’ve been beat by players who trap me (many times)…in the end, I can usually find a fault in my own game that allowed him to get there. 
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its hard to enjoy game when I lose every hand. just exactly was I supposed to do with 7-10? raise pre only to have KK re raised, I’d have to call since most my stack is in middle already. yeah guess should made some bet on flop, but then kk probably just re shoved all in and course I’m gonna call and result been the same.
anyway, I’m just done with it all, yeah played yesterday , straight lost and a flush hand lost.
Been on this site a few months now. Doing ok at the tables. But noticing that certain hands I get always seem to fall the exact same way everytime I get them. Don’t always lose (or win) with them. For example, if I hit a straight or a flush, off the flop, the turn is almost 100% going to be a card that puts a pair on the table. No ifs, no ands, no buts…almost 100% of the time. There’s a 1000 other things the turn card can be, but only that one ever happens. Seems whatever is going on, if you I hit something good straight off the bat, the only cards the turn/river will be are the one’s that give it the most chance of not winning. As I said earlier, I don’t always lose when it happens, but seems bogus and kind of artificial that in that kind of situation, the only cards that fall after the flop, are only the ones that will make it even possible for your hand to be beaten and no others. So would someone please elaborate to me what the devil is going on there…It’s gotten so ridiculous now that I’ve even hit a straight flush once on the flop and lost with it…pretty bogus…
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Started this post as a new topic but they BURIED it in a 3yr old topic. Guess they DON’T want this to be seen or talked about. All I needed to know. Just another bogus artificial poker site.
Well I found it right there on the front page … I’m guessing “they” aren’t as clever as you seem to think.
Hmmm … If “they” can’t even hide a post from a casual observer, how on Earth can we give “them” credit for being clever enough to rig the game?
The thing with all claims that Replay (or any other site!) is rigged is that no-one ever explains who benefits from the rigging.
People who buy chips claim that the game is rigged against them so that they are “forced” to buy more chips. People who don’t buy chips claim that the game is rigged against them for the same reason.
There are only two groups of players - those who buy chips and those who don’t! How can the game be rigged against both groups?
Having said that, I do see a fairly large bias in the way hands play out here. The people who study the game and think about what they’re doing tend to win far more than they lose.
Regards,
TA
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Never said rigged lol as I don’t always lose(or win) as I said before…but sure seems…odd to the point that it makes one…wonder. Having pockets and actually hitting your 3 of a kind on flop…but turn and river put another 3 of a kind or 4 suited cards on the table EVERY time…explain that to me…shouldn’t be EVERYTIME…