The Conspiracy Theorist

It never seems to fail. Someone loses a hand and inevitably the poker room gets blamed for it. How many times must we endure the rant of someone that got bad beat after getting their chips in the middle? It happens and it happens a lot more than I care to admit to. The fact of the matter is that if you play poker and you play it well you are going to take bad beats. Variance can be a very funny thing in that it swings both ways. For some reason a lot of players don't seem to understand this concept.

Don't you find it amusing how bad the poker room is when a card doesn't fall the way the percentages say it should. But when they catch the one outer on the river to win a big pot all of the sudden variance is no big deal? Amazing how that works. It really doesn't matter how well you play variance will be a factor in the game. You just hope it doesn't hit unfavorably in a large pot. That is the best that any of us can do. Basically all we can do is get our chips in the middle with the best hand and pray. It's the truth!