Bad Luck At The Casinos and Tables?

[KatrinaKovell]

I just wondering if it was me or everyone else feeling the casinos tightening? Poker seems to have more people just trying to get lucky and getting there!?

Example today:

Guy raises loose player calls and I reraise him 5x the bet (pocket 9s) the original raiser folds loose player calls..flop 5 3 7 all rainbow and guy checks i put enough in pot to put him all in he calls 5 & 6 of diamonds he gets runner runner diamonds for a turn and river GRRR!!! Really I ask him? He says yeah I say no wonder this is your third rebuy! Idiot!

Sorry Had Vent! On by the way I made trips on the turn 9 of diamonds...

Hoping things change...

[lisa.lisa0302]

Been about a month or two since I was at the casinos in Vegas. It was kinda brutal. I think the luck shifts from casino to casino. Lol

[PCD_O]

Stick with poker, you get bad beats, but the casino can't adjust the odds. If you are a skilled player, you have the odds over time.

[hkk4412868]

Sorry, Kat. We don't know one another but I play a lot of poker in Vegas and we have a mutual friend I think. Anyway, That's a tough beat. But at the same time, if you were playing the hands face up, you would be happy with his call. In fact, you'd take that all day.

Make the best decision everytime it's on you and you'll stay ahead.

I try to celebrate a little when someone plays badly and they suck out. That only increases the likelihood that they keep it up. And I know in the long run luck won't play a roll. And I never discourage people from bad play. After all, I'm not there to teach. Just to win.

See you around the tables.

[`flip]

This is an interesting topic really and I have given a little thought to this over the last 8 months basically since I permanently moved to Vegas. I hit the strip/downtown a lot more or less 4-6 nights a week when I’m home, if I’m home I’m not working so I go out and have a little fun.

As for Casinos tightening and I’m going to base this on Vegas alone. It’s always been tight especially the slots. If you play slots then shame on you and you deserve to be taken for a ride LOL. Tables are different and yeah sure if you look at it statistic side of it sure you could say the house always wins. More or less the more you risk + more you play = better odds for the house. That said you have a much better chance of walking away with some coin if you in fact know when to walk away, and let’s face it most people don’t LOL.

Poker is a whole different beast LOL. The house could care less they get the rake so it’s player to player. Personally I LOVE a table when you got that bad beat asshole sitting across for you yeah sure he might get ya from time to time with a bad beat but if you play your hand to the table and play the percentages you will absolutely take people like that to the hole every time. Trick is when you know you have it better that 85% slow play it a little and let him/her get themselves committed then you put them at risk. More times than not they are hoping for that bad beat and more time than not you will walk away from the pot laughing at them on the inside or if you’re me on the outside LOL. At the end of the day as long as you play smart one of two things will happen they will tighten up and play right or they will rebuy ass out and go home. I’m the last person you want on your table especially on a Vegas daily, if I stand good odds I’ll put the table at risk and having to make a decision as much as I can. Some people get frustrated with this because they are smart enough not to play but are losing their blinds LOL. However more times than not I’ll take that one bad beat asshole to the hole take his stack and send him packing which at the end of the day makes a better table. The way I see it a daily buy in is like 125 bucks at Aria which Aria and the Bellagio seem to have the higher daily buy-ins, that’s really noting in retrospect and if I were to lose it it’s a drop in the hat so I play very hard and aggressive. That said I get on a craps table and I’m dropping 4 to 5 times that just pass line not including whatever I’m feeling for the table. So in perspective the poker side of it for me is just killing time when I’m bored LOL.

When I go out and have a mediocre night I make a phone call and set up some quite time and that seems to make the world right again.