I had this 4 hour session of SnG bad run, and I still can't believe it.
I finished just out of money in all of 11 SnG's I played (all 4th), and my chips were all in with the best hand every single time.

AA loses to A6 (guy hits trips),
AK busted by A10 2 times (10 on the river both times)
QQ busted by pocket 10's (10 on the turn)
AQ busted by AJ (J on the river)
KK busted by 2 8 (yes, 2 8 offsuit.. he flops two pair)..

I did not tilt and donk my chips away.. I was on the bubble on all of 11 SnG's playing great till 4th, and I did not win a single one. I never questions pokerstars, but I had to question this run.. after a while, I was even able to predict what was going to hit. The opponent's card on the board. I was right all the time.

Just had to post and express my frustration, as I never had this type of bad run in my 1 and 1/2 year poker life. I seriously questioned the cards.. I was forced to go all in with the best hand, and I got cracked every single time. I finished 4th on all 11 of them, and cards were designed to make me go all in.. for example, I would raise 3-4BB preflop with AQ. Someone would call, board would show Q x x. I would go all in (on most cases, since I didn't have monster stacks) and opponent will catch something every single time.

I know I know, online poker is not rigged. But I'm having hard time calculating odds of this happening.. This is something more than a bad run.. I'm a winning SnG player (33% overall ROI) and I haven't changed a thing. Anyone ever experience something like this before?

thats nothing out of the ordinary. sure it sucks, but its not rigged, you cant predict the cards, this is just why you should have PLENTY of buyins, 30 minimum for whatever level you are going to play.

Well I'm glad to know that ppl do experience such thing..
I know it's not rigged, but cards were just so ridiculous and seemed fixed.. you know that feeling when you are running incredibly bad.
I always have 30-40 buyins for SnG's, and I ended up losing about 12 buyins yesterday. However I won 1 and finished 2nd twice today (100% ITM), and finally things are turning around.

that is quite out of the ordinary.. to be busted most times on the river and to bubble 11 times in a row isn't that normal. I found that hard to believe but apparently it's ordinary so ill jst assume you're not fibbing

It isn't ordinary, right? Thought so.. if you were there with me watching the cards fall, you would've said "dude, there is definitely something weird going on". Not saying it's rigged, but it was definitely a weird experience. However, I played 8 SnG the next day and cashed in 7.. I guess this was an extreme case of variance. I played all these SnG's in a same way..

yeh.. iv had some serious bad runs but that just seems pretty odd. Just wait till you get the reverse and a good run comes around like that!

dude seriously...I dont think pokerstars is called riverstars for no reason.

Ive played there before and never ever do I win like I do in other sites.

and about knowing wat cards fall out...after a while I always seem to know when the cards are coming as well...its a wierd feeling.

say i have QQ and the villian has something like a6

flop will come like KJ8...ill have the most fucked up feeling the ace is coming before it hits and instead of sighing some relief...I tense up knowing that ace will pop up on the turn...and WTF do uknow there it is.

call my psycho but i hate pokerstars

I think every site I've ever played has had players with a "pet name" for it because "you get more bad beats here than anywhere else".

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So true.
I had trouble on pokerroom and after playing there for a couple of months I was down $600. I moved to pokerstars and in 6 weeks I've turned $50 into $2600. At first I thought it was the pokerroom site, much like manguydude thinks it's pokerstars, but I now realise that my biggest problem was playing under rolled. Pokerroom seems a lot more fishy than stars and I would suffer more bad beats but because of my BR, I couldnt afford the hits I was taking. I found myself blaming the site for all my losses instead of blaming the donkeys and my poor BR management.