What is the point! The nemo's always get the luck

[MartyMcG_1967]

Played a satellite this afternoon on William Hill, $3 buy-in to gain a seat to the $10kGTD at 4 oclock. 60 odd people started with the top 6 gaining access to the $27 dollar buy-in tourney. Play pretty well and my good hands hold up at the right time and manage to qualify for the tourney. 2500 chips, 15 min blind levels so plenty of time to wait for good hands. About 20 minutes in, after not really being in any notable hands i get a decent hand. Blinds are 15/30- i see KK, raise to 120 get two callers. Flop comes 9c Jc 7d The pots around 400, I'm first to act so i bet about half of that. Player 1 re-raises me just over double to around 450. A bit worried about trip 7's or 9's but pretty confident im ahead. Player 2 then goes all in for around 2650, we all have pretty much the same amount at this early stage. From what ive seen of player 2's play he isn't a good player and while I'm worried about trips he could make his move with a few hands that i have beat. With KK on this board I have to call and do. Player 1 also calls the all in. Cards are turned over Player 1- QQ - one of the hands i would have put him on and delighted im ahead. Player 2- J 10 o/s !! Couldn't believe it. How can he think that hand is good. Inevitably the turn is a 2 and just as im about to celebrate trebling up in a big tourney, the 10 comes on the river giving him 2 pair :puke I mean the Q would have been sickening but I could have handled that, you can see why he thought QQ was good on that board, but J 10 is beaten by so many hands especially when there was a raise pre-flop. AJ,KJ,QJ all legitimate hands we could have had or 77,99, QQ KK or AA. I know bad beats are a part of poker but that is just sickening, time and time again nemo moves get rewarded. The guy is sitting at just under 9,000 chips with a chance to do some damage from there and make the money while after slogging it out for over an hour in a satellite i get done on the river and get 0. Think I'll pack it in for a bit its just too frustrating and time consuming when a crap player can outdraw you at any time :sad

[GaF]

Re: What is the point! The nemo's always get the luck You know you were only about 54% when you called the all in? You'll win about half and lose about half.... Board: 9c Jc 7d Dead: equity win tie pots won pots tied Hand 0: 13.843% 13.84% 00.00% 125 0.00 { QcQd } Hand 1: 54.928% 54.93% 00.00% 496 0.00 { KhKs } Hand 2: 31.229% 31.23% 00.00% 282 0.00 { JsTd } In the short run (e.g. 1 game) there is relatively little skill in poker. The skill in poker comes from consistently achieving small edges which over time will mean a profit. The more time you measure results over, the more skillful you need to be to win....