When I first started playing cards (Omaha high) on Bodog.com, I ran quite a few chips real quick.  When I was asked what I thought, I said that the beats on there are ugly.  It seems that way too often, 1 person flops the nut straight, another has a nut flush draw, and another has a weak flush draw, and another will flop a set.  Then they will throw up the flush card on the river, and then the full house card on the river.

I know, I know what you're thinking... that's Omaha, yes, and no.  When you go play live, someone don't always have the nut flush when it hits, someone don't always have a fullhouse when the board pairs, and someone don't always flop the straight when 3 to a straight show up.  On this site (and a few others) it seems that it's that way over 80 percent of the hands (if it's a loose game).

Now to my gripe, after about a week of doing ok, taking a few swings here and there, and ultimately dropped down to my original buy in and prompted me to cash out and write this article.  In the passed week, I've gotten beaten by quads more times than I've seen them playing live probably in the last two months, and that's no joke.  I've gotten beat by quads on this site in the week I've been on it over ten times. And that's not counting the other people I've seen get beat by them. And not only that, but most of the quads that I've seen on the site, were flopped, now what's the odds on that.

I had the feeling about it from the get go, just the whole feel and flow of the games, but that's not all, On my last down streak (in about a total of 7 hours over a 24 hour period), I flopped the nut straight about 8 times, and it held up 1 time (everyone folded).  I flopped the nut flush 3 times and it held up zero times.  I've flopped a full house 4 times and was good once (everyone folded), 2 of them were beat by flopped quads, and one nut full house.  In most of these situations, I was able to take a breath and throw my hand away on them, but high fullhouses are hard to get away from, so I lost big on those.  You don't ever expect them to have quads.

Now what's the odds on that?

But that's not all.

Out of all my big draws where I had 9 outs or more on the flop, I hit about 15 percent of them, and of those that I hit, I was outdrawn or boated on about 50 percent of them.  Granted I'm not sure if they hit for sure one some of them because of folding, but when someone comes over the top of you for all their chips, you can be pretty sure they sucked the nuts out on you.
The rule was, I would only draw if I was getting good odds on my draws, but I always made sure and gave my opponents bad odds on their draws.  Of course, they hit their draws on me most of the time.

And even as I wrote this article, heads up against the chip leader in a cheap sit n go, I flop top pair, they put the flush card up, I tried to represent it with all my chips, and of course he has it (placed third).

All the hands I would have won big with in this period, were crap hands that I wouldn't even consider playing.  Just because they would have won, doesn't mean I should start playing them, so I didn't.  I think it's a ploy to get you to play crap hands, but I didn't fall for it damn it.  So when they can't get you like that, they just crush your good hands when you play them.

Point is, I had the feeling about the site even when I was winning.  All I can ask is... what's the odds?