Recently, I started playing Texas Hold ‘em poker at a casino. (Players get two cards face down, then play with 5 common cards)
I would like someone to confirm (or disprove) to me that the cards I’m getting are just unbelievably bad. Tonight I played for about four hours at a table with eight players.
While other players were getting fabulous cards (one guy got a pair of sevens twice with another seven on the flop). Another woman got a flush and a full house consecutively on the flop.
Me? 2-6, 10-3, 5-6, 6-9…. and so on…. for four hours.
How can this possibly be natural, how can this possibly be statistically possible? It happened the previous time I played too. Interestingly, there were maybe only three hands all night which, if I had stayed in with my horrible cards, could have won. But of course I would have lost many times that amount in the interim.
I actually won a little tonight, but only because I just waited and waited and waited and waited.
So what’s the verdict? If you play for four hours at a typical rate of play in a casino, how many decent first cards could you expect? Also, any good books on poker?
To “Steve”: good answer.
What irritates me is that some players keep getting great hands, time after time after time, while I get cards so bad I dare not even play with them (with one exception last night, there was only one significant bluff).
Has anyone experienced getting wreched cards hour after hour? I’ve been playing in these games for a few weeks now, and some players seem to have just amazing luck. One guy got something like seven straights in 15 hands, many of them on the flop!
