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Waiting To Be Moved To The "Bad Beat" Section

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  1. pockets1975 pockets1975 is offline

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    Jan 30th, 2010 (1/30/2010 11:59pm)

    Does anyone else find the results they're getting on Bodog and/or the manner in which they're busting out to be a bit odd? Before you pigeonhole me as a losing paranoid player, let me stress that I bought in for $200 back in April of 2007, and I've cashed about $8000 in checks that Bodog has sent me, and I currently have about $2100 on there still. I'm doing alright there, in other words, but - I know enough about percentages, and what makes sense mathematically, to realize that something stinks.

    I was typing in my text box at a final table recently that I had been THE bubble boy on three tournaments in the past two days. "Grow some balls," the guy I was talking to typed, but this isn't the problem I am facing at all. I am repeatedly busting out in weird spots with decent chip stacks in situations that make no sense whatsoever. In one example, we're three hours into a tournament, and I've been sitting beside the guy for at least the past hour of it. I have 20 big blinds and he has 40. I go all in unde the gun with A-Q suited and... he calls, with 8-4? He hasn't done anything weird or crazy the entire time I"ve been sitting there. It just so magically happens that 8-4 is one of the few hands that can bust me, as the cards play out? One spot off the final table and the money, here I am again.

    I could go on and on with similar tales, but this one pretty much sums it up. I complain to Bodog occasionally but their explanation always is that because they have a casino on their site, it attracts "gambling" players. But no, this isn't it at all. I am getting weird calls by guys who've been rocks as far as I can see up to the point of busting me. I refuse to believe someone would or even could invest three hours of his time into a tournament, and arrive one spot off the money with 40 big blinds, having folded every hand pretty much for the past half hour, then suddenly believe that calling an all in for half his stack with 8-4 is a great idea. Also, I should mention that in making it this deep into a tournament, it's always 75 percent familiar faces, but unfailingly one of these weird calls is by someone I've never seen before.

    If anyone else has anything else along these lines I'd really like to hear it. Is it really too ridiculous to question whether a site would plant its own employees at a tournament to bust people and "collect" at least some of the money spots?
  2. odstore odstore is offline

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    Jan 31st, 2010 (1/31/2010 12:35am) in reply to pockets1975

    wtf does this have to do w/ hand advice?
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