Party Poker setup? I know it sounds stupid...

[MadNinja]

Without trying to sound like a cry baby I'd like to get some feedback on this. I am very curious about the hands that I get beat with the day following a big payday. This is not the first time that it has happened and I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed a similar pattern.

Yesterday on Party Poker I played a $50 table and got up to over $300. I thought it was kind of odd the amount of Aces I had been dealt, but since I kept winning with them I didn't mind. However, today I was playing and noticed something a little fishy. Every hand I had won up until the river (eg. QQ vs. 10-10, AK vs 99 with K on the board) and every straight I had made got beat out on the river. Not to exaggerate but at least 80% of my straights lost to a flush and every pair I got dealt and flopped a set with got beat by higher set. Not to mention the numerous 2-pair hands that got beat by sets or straights.

I understand that these things happen in the game and am aware of the so-called guaranteed "randomness" of the hands. But in the same breath I am really curious to understand why everytime I win big it sems as though I am "set-up" with losing cards.

Before you go telling me to stop bitching (which is what I would probably say to myself) I want you to know that I played relatively tight and conservative as opposed to too loose and aggressive once I started winning. If you were to examine most of these hands in question I feel that most of you would've made the same calls.

I can understand losing on the river a couple of times a day but I lost EVERY time that I had an all-in call. I'm talking hands I should've won. KK lost to a set of 3's on the river, a nut flush on 4th street lost to a flush on the river, etc. And if this was a tournament I'd completely understand.

I was wondering if anyone else had had the same problem. I have had this happen about 4 or 5 times now. And as much as I know it sounds stupid I honestly feel like it was "set-up". While I know this is probably not the case I was wondering if anyone had any feedback to calm me down a bit (after I unistall Party Poker for the 5th time!!!!). Unless of course this is what they call catching COLD CARDS?

Thanks.

[MadNinja]

Unless of course I am just a complete retard and in that case void the first post.

[Tony Cheval]

well to start with, if you got outflushed on the river, you didn't have the nut on 4th street. Other than that, I can understand how you feel at least, I could start a thread in Bad Beats from the last couple days titled 'KK, Why Have You Forsaken Me?'

[Gordogg]

I don't see the benefit of them setting players up to lose after they win big. You are just running bad man. That was me two weeks ago, second best hand time after time. I'm doing ok now, and you'll pull out of it too. It's called variance. Or maybe your opponents read the "How to beat Party Poker" book shilled on their site 24/7, heh

[Tony Cheval]

Yeah, I've been running very up and down lately. Have to keep muttering my new mantra, 'I will not be Brian...I will not be Brian...'

[Talking Poker]

Looking back at short term results, you can find pretty much any pattern you like. I have friends who insist (Warning: this is not a joke) that Ks and 5s usually hit the flop together on Party Poker. Uh huh, whatever.

It's just a short term random thing. If it happens 1000 times in a row, let us know. But before you do, first come up with a motive for Party Poker to run anything but a clean game. And think for am inute befoe you say something about "money." Think long and hard about how much money they make in rake through running clean games every single day. Then think about how much:
1. It would cost them to develop some crazy system that is out to get you.
2. It would cost them to pay off the programmer who wrote said system because if word of it ever got out.........
3. They would lose everything.

In summary.... It's not only not worth it, but it would be extremely STUPID for them to run anything but clean games.