[Penguinfan]

For the record Chip, I don't think it's rigged, just that you do see some awful funny things happen.

I agree, for the most part with what TP has to say on the matter. I think the biggest reason you don't have those things go your way is you don't donk off all your chips with bottom pair and a 3 kicker in the first place.

I felt the same way recently as the original poster so I honestly got the entire hand history from a SNG I had just played and finished 2nd and felt like I should have won if it weren't for the bad beats, including the last hand where I had AK against 56 that made a straight. Anyway, I went back through and looked at all the hands I played and I honestly thought I got a TON of tough breaks that game, as it turned out I went to a coin flip as the slight favorite 5 times that game when the chips went in the pot (I was big chip leader most of the way at 5-handed) I lost all 4 of those 5 coin flips and won the only one where I went in as the dog (small stack all-in and I was BB and pot committed).

The way I see it I should have won 3 of those coin flips instead of 1 and should have lost the one I went in behind.

All things considered I remember this game as being FULL of tough beats when in reality it was probably pretty normal, if anything I got the short end of it by a tiny bit, but not nearly as much as I thought.