Quote Originally Posted by NeverWinRaces View Post
I've been playing in the carbon poker free rolls for about 2 months now. When I first started playing I cashed in half of my first 10 tournaments and never really took any bad beats.
This was the unusual part. You were running extremely hot during those first 10 tourneys and didn't realize it. Everything else you wrote was the normal part. They don't fold on Carbon, so you're going to take suckout after suckout after suckout when you're running bad. Remember the good ole' days when this type of bad run didn't used to happen to you? That's because people were sensible and folded bad hands...nowadays, it's so hard to win that most people have given up trying so they just play shit hands just for the hell of it and it makes a bad run worse than it should be. If you want to swing back to a good run again, you might have to wait 200 - 300 - maybe even 1,000 tournaments for your luck to change again. Online it takes about 2,000 tourneys just to determine whether you're a good player or not because that's how long variance takes to iron itself out.