Hi,

Not a complete beginer here, played a bit online and play in some home games from time to time. I know some basic stuff and I'm ok at maths.

Here's the thing..

Playing online at Party Poker I have now been beat with pocket aces...wait for it... eight times in a row (!!!) when I have seen a flop.

I did win one hand with them, but only because I put in a small raise (2x the BB) on the button, and everybody else folded. Bah.

Three of the eight times I got beat by a straight, twice by flushes, and various other combinations. I even made trip A's on the flop and still got beat... twice.

So if I'm an 80% pre flop favorite that means being beat is 4:1 against, right? So to lose eight times in a row must be 4 to the power of 8 ? ie- 4x4x4x4x4x4x4x4 which is about 65,000 to 1

What I want to know is- Does this sort of thing happen to anybody else online? Or should I just avoid online poker? Because it seems pretty sketchy to me...

Thoughts?