Originally Posted by bustyou79

OK let me start by saying I have never thought a site or poker was or is rigged against one player or another. I am leaning in that direction now. After having very few options as to where to play online poker after BF I chose to seek out a backing deal in order to be able to still grind online. Having my $$$ tied up on tilt hasn't allowed me to play live as much as i want. So for the past 4 months ive been grinding on merge and i am OK with losing as this is a big part of POKER, however it seems like its a 180 degree turn from the game i loved and once knew from stars or FTP. Now obv there should be minor adjustments made when playing on a new site to get a feel for the software and new players. I find myself now losing everyday in spots where i know im playing good if not great poker. I am not just talking about flips and losing them, i can somewhat avoid these spots by improving post flop play and thats what ive been doing. But im now losing every flip i enter as well as 2 n 3 outers seem to be norm. Ive long said to myself and others play good worry never. I have gone through the ups and downs of online poker for over 3 years now and feel like im in a rut i cant get out of now not sure if its me or something else. Maybe im overreacting to a bad run of cards but i feel like im better than alot of the people that win on merge and im playing the same aggro style that you need to play to win mtts. I feel like i cant win now , not a mtt but a fucking hand!!!! Im looking for thoughts on how you guys feel about the software and board runouts.

My thoughts are : I feel like im playing with a 72 card deck, the people that made this software couldnt have had a clue about poker cause the #s dont add up, if it were really %5 then i wouldnt waste my time pissing and moaning about losing to it but its happening everyday allday. my point here is if im 90% plus then i have a lot more winners in the deck then the 2 or 3 outer that falls way to often. The worst hand flops a huge draw or a pair a very high % of the time and i feel like this shouldnt be the case as often as it is. OBV shits gonna happen im just saying it happens way to often. The way they double up the short stacks that have 5 BBs or less by dealing them AA is a gross display off whats wrong with this software in my opinion as this is not SOP and very rarely happens in real poker.

my thoughts on the people that are winning on merge are what makes these guys so good just on merge cause a lot of them never won shit on the other sites.
how can these people be so (GOOD) but only on merge. Im not trying to offend these people at all im just trying to figure out how you guys win playing the same way i am but your winning and im losing. Now i am completely reserved to the fact that im an aggro maniac and this may have alot to do with the swings that i go through. However i have been a proven consistent winner in this game for 3 plus years now and i know that i can continue to win.

Please feel free to discuss more. would like to hear how some of you regs feel about what ive brought up.

i mainly grinded full tilt pre black friday was just starting to play more on stars when black friday hit, i was mainly a low to mid stakes grinder with a abi of 36ish on ftp and stars, i def had ups and downs on those sites and seen ridiculous stuff, on merge i started out on my own and started off with decent success with a abi of around 35-40ish, but the amount of money to be made in those stakes on merge just isnt enough so i started playing bigger and went on a horrid downswing where nothing was going right, was it just me running bad? no it wasnt i was spewing alot and things that were working in smaller stakes and in mid stakes on ftp and stars just werent working as well in these smaller reg infested feilds on merge even if every reg on merge isnt on the level of the top regs on stars doesnt mean it makes merge softer when almost every table your at has 5 to 6 regs that def are good enough to put u in tough spots, a couple months ago i got backed cuz i couldnt afford the swings of higher stakes and started off pretty rough , continued to look at my own game and mistakes and poor decisions i was making and adjusting to the way merge plays and the oppenents i faced in the bigger stakes, these last 2 months i feel like my decision making has improved alot , and trust me i have went thru ridiculous stretches on merge where i was taking beat after beat, but it is simply variance imo, poker is poker, if u want to look at my first 4 months on opr in 2012 playin higher stakes on merge my results werent that great, and sure i def ran absurdly bad in big equity spots on FTs and FT bubbles but also i needed to fix things with my game, things have turned around last couple months, its the way variance works, there are ups and downs, merge isnt rigged, all we can do is try to work on getting better and long term results will improve , gl

i agree with u elimherr
, bustyou has hit a new low which prev. seemed unreachable but 2 my amazement he has. i guess he thinks that the good players have a secret program that lets them suck out and hold up.... funny. bustyou i dont think u r built 4 this lifestyle...

 

Originally Posted by ferry2187

i agree with u elimherr
, bustyou has hit a new low which prev. seemed unreachable but 2 my amazement he has. i guess he thinks that the good players have a secret program that lets them suck out and hold up.... funny. bustyou i dont think u r built 4 this lifestyle...

Do you even know anything about what you speak? FERRY = a friend of a scammer named Peter Lubrano. No one ever ghosted me to any of my wins but while i backed JOHNG, SOME LEGEND did win a mtt for him and it was his largest online cash. I also know for a FACT that most of your scores if not all, under the SN's BLITZ2187 on PS and FTP were won by PETE and not you. So before you guys lob accusations at me you should make sure your closet is clean. And as far as me being good, numbers on ftp and stars don't lie and no one on your "team Brooklyn" have or will match those numbers. I am very aware of the mistakes i make and try to correct them everyday. As far as backing i don't know the right people that's the only reason i'm not backed for live play. Why would someone not want to back me with the #s I've put up. So keep trying to insult me ferry please i like the attention. And I'm fine with the "karma" i have coming to me i would be more concerned about the "karma" your friends pete and john have coming to them and hope i wasn't around them when it hits them. Thieves can run and hide but reputation follows them wherever they are hiding.

 

Originally Posted by supra1988t

lol who's the ignorant one? Can't believe I have to spell this shit out for you. I didn't even infer you were a break even player, just pointed out that you apparently took a 3k game break even stretch (from 2,500 to 5,000 on the graph below) on ftp in stride, but when you have a run on merge which wasn't even as bad (do I need to post that graph too?) you cry foul.



Sorry merge isn't as soft as everyone told you it would be and before you say I just run good I've had my fair share of downswings.

Hey thanks for the cool graphs man, no one told me merge was soft ever. And everyone has downswings but if your a good enough player you get it back and then some most times. And i guess i never really vented about that break even stretch on FTP cause it would be hard to complain about running bad when i was up over 200k. So flame me if you want IDC , and I'm not crying I'm stating my opinion if you don't like it to bad.

 

Originally Posted by bustyou79

yeah cause i never review HH's or anything like that looking for leaks thx bud for the advice. And what I'm so upset with isn't my bad play i can correct this over time. I'm more talking about getting top 5% hands only to know I'm gonna get 3 outed before the $$$ even goes in, who should i blame for this? You and others are acting like i don't know anything about poker and downswings etc. . Sorry if i find this insulting but i do, I would not say a single word if i felt like it was pure poker and nothing but. IF this is pure variance then where is the other side of the coin cause with the bad comes good and vice- versa right?

Well if you understand variance then why are you claiming that Merge is rigged? Its just astounding that "winning regs" fall so low and let the game affect to such a degree that the only explination they have is that "its rigged". Im sorry but when I see someone post a thread liek this I immediately have to discredit any poker ability they once had.