Edges are not tiny after  all. Most players simply don't take advantage of their opponents huge  leaks.

"and that means, that you will lose 30 times out of 100 in the long run. and the long run can be very long at times. in the short run it´s possible you lose 15 or so in a row"

1/(0.3^15) = 69,700,000. So, no you cannot really lose 15 in a row. But you can lose 6 or 7, very occasionally.
 

Don't look only the bad beats, think about other situations. There is probably a lot of hands preflop, you could limp/minraise, but you fold, there are hands, you could light 3bet, but you call, opponents against you can 3bet shove wider, but you don't do it, etc.

that´s a very good answer. don´t focus on random events, but on those things that you have an influence on. and the important thing is to still have fun. i think the main reason why so many micro limit players are frustrated is because they fall prey to the false promise of making a living from playing cards. and when they realize that it´s not that easy, they get frustrated, because there is such a huge factor involved that is per definition uncontrollable. but the luck factor is probably the main thing that makes poker profitable for the good players. simply because bad players are under the false impression they are good, because they run good. that´s why they keep coming back. that´s why they will donate you money. compare it to chess. noone in chess plays for money way above their skill level, because players more or less know how well they compare to the competition. in poker the bad players don´t. that´s where the money is.

If AA, KK and QQ  are rigged, why don't you just call any all in push with 82o? It is hard to run under EV with trash hands as such.

 There're people who say that the best players are the people who can recognize the ''patterns'' on Pokerstars.

if it´s only a half way proper RNG, there are no recognizable patterns. what happens is that you think you see a pattern where there is none. that´s how astrology works for example (include a couple of barnum statements and there you go). the human brain has for survival purposes evolved  an extraordinarily good pattern recognition system. i.e. it´s better to recognize a tiger in the bushes where there is none, rather than oversee one. our brain is programmed to live in a world of cause and effect. randomness has no place in our natural perception of the world. that´s why we see cause where there is none and come up with things like religion, or conspiracy theories, or believe that online poker is rigged.

there´s one thing i really don´t understand about such conspiracy theories: if you think, pokerstars is cheating you, why do you play? is there masochism involved? i really don´t get it.

 I understand that this subject is sensitive. In the past I made some profit at times then lose it , win it back and so on.

I think you can make profit on Pokerstars , there's proof enough for that. But there're times it's like the doomswitch is on.

And the way you make your profit is not with that stupid luck, but by ''normal'' play. For example I win with my TT against 33 and not I win with my 33 against TT.

The reason I still play on PS is because it's the biggest FT is not available in the country I live yet. I am sure there must be a way to make some profit (I did in the past).

The software and bonus you can achieve are very nice and they have a lot of freerolls. And when it's rigged for anyone you can call it variance...lol.

For real...I think PS pokerstars has his own algorithm wich is sometimes very frustrating, and looks like rigged, but why should they? ,making hundreds of million dollars

a year? That would be stupid in my opinion.

So that's why ...I try to improve my game and make some profit again. AND...no I am not a masochist even if I try to...;-)

How big is your sample, and how much is your EV ROI? And post a 10 minute leakfinder video, maybe we find something. :)

DiplKomp pretty much said it.

70/30 means you win 70% of the time and lose 30% of the time. 

Familarise yourself with some statistics, even run some binomial distribution 70/30 simulations to align your expectations with what happens in reality. 

But FlyingMachine was right to point out => these are not the instances you should be focused on. 

The times you get all in as a 70/30 favourite should be seen as successes. 

That said, if your opponent would have done the same thing  if the roles were reversed (eg. you get AK in preflop vs AQ @ 25b), then frankly it doesn't even matter because over time while this play was +EV in isolation, as your strategies interact over time they will net out to zero (or negative due to the rake). 

To engineer a recipricol edge vs your opponents you need to find spots where you play more +EV than your opponent. 

The way most people think about the game (hand strength based thinking) creates frequency imbalances in a lot of spots. 

If you can identify and exploit enough of these imbalances in their strategy you will start to build a sizable edge over your opponents. 

I think poker requires a lot deeper thinking and hard work than most people believe. 

Not sure if you're read it or not, but I would highly recommend Will Tipton's book. 

A lot of books & older videos offer heuristic advice on how to beat game conditions that simply don't exist anymore as the game has moved on. 

Will's book offers a framework for thinking about the game.

At ~$25 it's incredibly good value relative to other sources of information available.

It will take at least a couple of reads to digest the information and reap full value, but I think your framework through which you view the game would benefit from it immensely. 

read again tomorrow and godwin´s law might have kicked in :)

I come here again to apologize about my post!  [...] I was wrong..it's amazing how the perception can be when you are playing.

no need to apologize. you didn´t insult nor offend anyone.

the reason you got such answers is probably due to the fact that most players who make such complaints don´t have the insight and the courage to admit when the are under a misapprehension. admitting that on your part deserves respect. not many people do that actually.

cheers

s.

This is exactly why I called this a whine-thread. It was not because I wanted to hurt or flame you at all, but because, you wasted your time. You could had done the analysis before, but, and I am just asuming, you only did the analysis to maybe proof me wrong.

That we remember hands that went bad remember longer and therefore might get the feeling, that (poker) life is not just, is a scientific fact. Jared Tendler explains his well in his book.

It is pretty much like when your girlfriend breaks up with you...in order to get ride of the pain, you will eventually start thinking about what you loved on her and beginn thinking about what you hate about her. On the other hand, if your wife, which you loved very much, dies, you wanna keep the memory alive and prefer remembering the great stuff about her and it does not matter that, due to the fact that you keep your memory alive, also keep the pain of remembering alive.

If you wanna get rid of your tilt, you need to understand what happens and need to not lose focus. No matter how great a player you are, when you tilt you lose and if things go badly you might end up in a death-spiral that you are not able to escape.