Here is an intersting part of an article I read about the perfect hands being played in online poker. It seems to happen all the time when there is a hand with AA vs AK vs KK. Or flopped sets vs straights. It not that it does not happen in real games but that it happens a far more times online then in live game.
Ku
http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/archives/mark-burtman43.htm
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Let me get back to the internet, which is what initially inspired me to write this article. I have seen much discussion on the streakiness of the internet. I have certainly experienced it first hand. Despite reassurances from the official poker pundits that these are just normal variations that are magnified by the increased randomness of the shuffle and shear volume of hands dealt, I just don't buy into that theory. Let me give you an example. I was playing two tournaments simultaneously on Partypoker. In the pot limit Omaha tournament I was doing fairly well. Then I caught Quad Jacks. It resulted in a perfect hand as I trapped some poor fool with a big fullhouse. On the very next hand I again was dealt Quad Jacks. I couldn't believe my good fortune. That is until the board put a pair of Aces up as well, and I found myself staring down Quad Aces. As I was writing in the chat section how strange things like that happened on the internet, to which I actually received a dissenting opinion, I was dealt Quad Queens in my hold-em tournament. Thus in the span of ten minutes I was dealt Quads three times. In each hand I had another person all-in with me. And I only won 2 out of 3 of the hands, but the pundits all say that that's just a product of normal variance magnified by the shear volume of hands...IN TEN MINUTES? How many times do I get Quads in a year in live action? And then with callers... I think it comes back to perfect hands. What do perfect hands do? They generate action. Card rooms make money when there is action. Computer generated card rooms program the action. Suppose a 9-8 is in a hand with an A-K and the flop comes A-2-6. What happens? A-k bets and 9-8 folds. House has very little to cut from the pot. But what if the flop comes A-9-8. Fireworks fly, pots grow, profits soar for the house. But why generate that kind of action in a tournament? That's easy. Once the tournament entry fees are collected the house doesn't make anymore money until players are busted and brought back to another tournament or the ring games. Nothing helps get a tournament over faster than perfect hands trapping competent players. These tournaments are commonly starting with over 1200 players. That's a lot of players that the website needs to bust before the tournament ends, and before they start putting their money in play elsewhere.
Ku
http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/archives/mark-burtman43.htm
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Let me get back to the internet, which is what initially inspired me to write this article. I have seen much discussion on the streakiness of the internet. I have certainly experienced it first hand. Despite reassurances from the official poker pundits that these are just normal variations that are magnified by the increased randomness of the shuffle and shear volume of hands dealt, I just don't buy into that theory. Let me give you an example. I was playing two tournaments simultaneously on Partypoker. In the pot limit Omaha tournament I was doing fairly well. Then I caught Quad Jacks. It resulted in a perfect hand as I trapped some poor fool with a big fullhouse. On the very next hand I again was dealt Quad Jacks. I couldn't believe my good fortune. That is until the board put a pair of Aces up as well, and I found myself staring down Quad Aces. As I was writing in the chat section how strange things like that happened on the internet, to which I actually received a dissenting opinion, I was dealt Quad Queens in my hold-em tournament. Thus in the span of ten minutes I was dealt Quads three times. In each hand I had another person all-in with me. And I only won 2 out of 3 of the hands, but the pundits all say that that's just a product of normal variance magnified by the shear volume of hands...IN TEN MINUTES? How many times do I get Quads in a year in live action? And then with callers... I think it comes back to perfect hands. What do perfect hands do? They generate action. Card rooms make money when there is action. Computer generated card rooms program the action. Suppose a 9-8 is in a hand with an A-K and the flop comes A-2-6. What happens? A-k bets and 9-8 folds. House has very little to cut from the pot. But what if the flop comes A-9-8. Fireworks fly, pots grow, profits soar for the house. But why generate that kind of action in a tournament? That's easy. Once the tournament entry fees are collected the house doesn't make anymore money until players are busted and brought back to another tournament or the ring games. Nothing helps get a tournament over faster than perfect hands trapping competent players. These tournaments are commonly starting with over 1200 players. That's a lot of players that the website needs to bust before the tournament ends, and before they start putting their money in play elsewhere.
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