The player often spends hours waiting for a good card to be able to play, often this good hand has no effect, or has a disastrous effect. As the game is online and we often come across artificial intelligence, there is a suspicion that the scenario is being manipulated to make you lose a lot of money - The site leaves the player for hours at a time, without a good hand to be able to play, thus increasing the anxiety and expectation, that, when faced with a good hand, the player doesn't think twice, goes all in and lost everything. Detail, the more the player loses, the more he tends to play, as the human feeling of overcoming and believing in better days makes the poker player a slave to the system.
Having a bad run? Do you realise how that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever? Really think about it. You suggest the
poker sites are in some way cheating. So what would be the benefit of that. They are favouring one player over you? What benefits would they get from that? The poker sites make their money from the rake. They don’t care who wins the game whether it’s you or the guy who bad beat you. It makes no difference to them at all.
Do you know how much money these big sites make and how much their reputation depends on them being secure and doing everything in their power to prevent any security issues or bots from being in games. However, let’s for a second go with there being a bot on your table (or AI player). They are not able to chose their cards, or what’s dealt. The advantage they would have is knowing all the statistics, using HUD to have as much info on each player and how they play hands. They aren’t able to MAKE you lose with AA. They aren’t hacking the software. Do you know how much random data is fed into the software to generate the hands? It’s impossible to affect that. If someone was breaching the software it wouldn’t take long for them to realise and put it right. Their whole reputation is based on the security and integrity of their site and games.
Online you are playing so many more hands than you would live and it feels like you have more bad beats but you really don’t, If you compared hand for hand you’d see the same probabilities of hands being dealt, connecting, losing, winning.
You need to take each hand on its own. Once it’s played forget it. Don’t play the next one based upon your emotions, don’t hold a grudge against a player that bad beat you or called you light, Analyse why they did it. Did you play the hand in the right way? If so it was unlucky it happens. Did they make a stupid call that paid off this time? If so know that they got lucky; but they won’t always hold that luck and you need more than luck.
When I loose big hands; as long as I can say I played it right, based on where I was what came off etc, then I’m good. You can’t win them all but you can learn from all those situations, learn about your opposition, use it to win your money back, but most importantly don’t be in a position where you are risking your whole stack unless it’s absolutely necessary. No one needs to throw 50bb into a 3bb pot.
