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is it esp or negitive thinking.....

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  1. zippyflounder zippyflounder is offline

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    Mar 14th, 2008 (3/14/2008 1:47pm)

    When you KNOW that they will river their flush, or catch that 1 or 2 outer? I have been keeping score, and its running 8 out of 10 times my "oh shit, here comes the _____" to ko me again. Its not a bad beat story, just a observation.
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    Mar 14th, 2008 (3/14/2008 2:12pm) in reply to zippyflounder

    think positive and have faith in your odds
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    Mar 14th, 2008 (3/14/2008 2:16pm) in reply to zippyflounder

    I won a $1 donkament on stars a while back that had like 3000 people in it and everytime I got all in I asked for their card to hit. Went something like K K K give them the damn K cmon K K K yesssssss NO K.
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    Mar 14th, 2008 (3/14/2008 2:39pm) in reply to freeworld777

    ummm faith, well that I dont have. I have done some research into ESP lots of wacky stuff, some serious but there seems to be something to it, hey maybe it would explain why some people just run "good" A LOT.
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    Mar 14th, 2008 (3/14/2008 2:44pm) in reply to freeworld777

    As Doyle Brunson says: “But in the rare situations when all your card knowledge and best judgment leave you in doubt, go with your strong feeling… and not against it”.
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  6. lordxixor101 lordxixor101 is offline

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    Mar 14th, 2008 (3/14/2008 3:56pm) in reply to zippyflounder

    I always wonder what sort of answer the OP is looking for when they ask. Do I buy into that there are some strange coincidences? Sure (I'll say once, I had Pocket Queens preflop, and my 3 year old nephew (who just came over to say hi) looked me dead on and said, your going to lose). I chuckled. I lost the hand, the other guy had KK.

    There are situations like that that make you wonder, but I think you really have to play your odds 99% of the time. If you know your head is on straight and something isn't adding up, then, yeah, go with your gut (I think sometimes that's just your subconcisous picked up on something). But, if you are an 80% favorite + to win a hand, you can't throw it away because you think you can sense what's coming. It's actions like that that begin the 'I've been running horrible for 6 months, barely even winning a hand'.
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    Mar 14th, 2008 (3/14/2008 5:29pm) in reply to zippyflounder

    iuf you really want to think far out shit

    the cards are generated by a computer program
    computer programs run on electrical currents
    electricity is a form of energy
    thoughtwaves are a form of energy (or something)
    and travle atthe speed of light

    therefore... thoughts influence it somehow

    I've called for cards intensely and seem they come..
    and i've also (when running bad) expected to see the beat, and it comes

    i treat all of this with skepticisim, obviously, but i always surprise myself at how often it comes (bad or good)
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