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I have played texas holdem for ten years, including a period living in LA where I supplimented my income playing at the Bicycle Casino ($3&5 blinds) in the evenings after work and AVERAGED $35,000 per year profit(I kept a very detailed spreadsheet).
I returned to the UK on business and there is little access to live cash games around here, so I started playing on-line. FTP has the best user interface, but boy is it rigged. I literally cannot win. I can take down small pots, but get me into a hand where the chips are all going in the middle and I just say goodbye to them.
For example, take this run of hands from the last couple of days: Pocket Aces beaten by pocket fours (opponent flopped a set) Pocket Aces beaten by AQ (opponent flopped a straight) Pocket Kings beaten by pocket queens (opponent flopped a set) Pocket Aces beaten by 7,8 (opponent turned a straight after calling an all-in bet) Each time heads-up, and without any winning pocket Ace or King hands at all in between. Then to top it all, last night I flop a full house with pocket 2's, end up all-in after the flop - way ahead - and the board goes runner,runner to a bigger full house for my opponent.
Then, finally, just now, had pocket Kings again, raised to three times the BB, got one caller out of position, flop comes 10,4,3 with two clubs.
I bet the pot, he calls,, turn is a blank. I go all-in (3 times the pot), he calls with A,8 clubs. River card is a club.
Just the 5 consecutive pocket pairs beaten in a row where they were 82% to win each time, equates to odds of over 3000 to 1, never mind the flopped full house that was 98% to win as well.
Someone's making money out of Full Tilt, but it ain't me, and when my current buy in is gone, I'm going somewhere else more reasonable. Anyone recommend any sites?
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