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Today on Scorepoker

June 16, 2005

A lot of you might be wondering why we did not factor in your opponents' cards or burn cards when we are determining how many cards are remaining in the deck. The reason being is that if you saw what the burn cards happened to be, or an opponent for some reason showed you his hand, you would know that those scorepoker cards are not going to be drawn and you could use that information to process your percentages further. We typically do not know what our opponents have, so we don't even think about it when figuring out the odds.

If you mistakenly expect to get a pat full house every hour, you're apt to feel miserable and cheated by fate. Your scorepoker game will suffer. When you run bad, keep your luck secret. Getting sympathy from a fellow poker player is practically possible. This appropriate exchange of words happened two years ago in Reno. An elderly man slithered up to my friend and asked to borrow $20. "I lost my ass!" he explained.

Nothing is more important to a gambler than whether unexplored phenomena might be influencing his online scorepoker luck. Although I can't prove to you conclusively that such forces don't exist, here is my advice. Get a good grasp of scorepoker tournament probabilities and gamble accordingly. Maybe there are undiscovered forces that guide our luck. But our best shot of winning the money right now is to deal with concepts we comprehend.

There are two main types of people who are screwing up my world: those who claim to have discovered secret psychic answers; and those who blindly proclaim there can be no reality beyond that which they can fathom. Both these groups, the fortune tellers and the tunnel-vision scientists, are suffering from the same insanity. They both need answers (here are the rules of poker). The former makes them up; the latter shouts that luck is understood by equation.

There's one subject that no self-respecting scorepoker regular will discuss. It's the supernatural. Sure, it's easy to say that we have all the answers.

Finally, after years and years of struggling to decipher what the world of poker complainers means by these bizarre assertions, I'm ready to announce my scorepoker hands to the public. What follows is a sample of typical claims you're apt to hear from gamblers, and the truth.

Scorepoker Statement #1

"I can't believe it! I got 14 full houses beat in three hours playing draw poker! I've lost most of my scorepoker chips." The truth: The speaker lost on one full house and on two flushes. Furthermore, he drew to two pair, sevens and fours, caught a seven and would hare had he caught a four, since the opener had sixes full. He's counting this as a loss, anyway, since he didn't hold three-of-a-kind in nearly an hour.

Scorepoker Statement #2

"I went to Vegas over the weekend. Must've played 21 for fifteen hours and never got a single blackjack!" The truth: This person got about 40 blackjacks, perhaps less than his mathematical share. However, he only remembers 10 of them clearly, and these are hardly worth mentioning since he dumped $2000 playing online scorepoker.

"I would've hit the daily double. I had it figured cold, but I got tied up at the office." The truth: The guy's second choice won the first half of the double. The horse that won the scorepoker tournament was a complete surprise. But now, looking back at the Racing Form, he can positively see why he might have picked it.

You see? It's human nature to feel you're running bad, even when you're not. In the past, I showed that the fluctuations for a gambler can be a lot greater than most informed people suppose. There's a lot of luck involved in games like gin rummy, poker and backgammon. That's why it's important to get as big a scorepoker edge as possible.

Scorepoker Statement #3

Every experienced scorepoker online gambler hears this sort of thing all the time. The vocabulary of complaint, the language of misery, is universal. If you're a regular scorepoker player, you can hear echoes of similar tales right now.

Losers like to complain. Losing is a lonely experience. You suffer alone at a scorepoker table. No one else seems aware of your tragedies. After the online scorepoker game, many humans need to share their agony.

Losers exaggerate. That's because they're not trying to convey what really happened so much as how bad they feel scorepoker's school on poker tells. You shouldn't challenge their outrageous claims of misfortune. Merely do your duty as a human being and commiserate.