Mega Touch, Much?

What pairs did your competition have? What was the full board?

I have a love-hate relationship with Texas Hold'em. Online I have won several 800 seat freerolls and I do quite KK in the micro-limits, in that I succeed in escaping with an even break. However, the off-line simulators give me fits, because the outcome of many hands is as unrealistic as Meg Ryan recovering from her Botox-lips. It just can't happen. Even though there is a statistic chance of being subjected to a bad-beat at least once in every session you play, the chance of getting smacked across the teeth with a bad-beat the next hand is next to nill. Overall, unless you're in a multi-day tournament, the number of personal bad-beats shouldn't be no higher than two. The chances of you being the winner of bad-beats is much higher, oddly enough. Many simulators put you at a distinct disadvantage, not only can you not draw people out on speech, which what I like to do at tables, chatter constantly about anything, or on your behavor, the only thing that you can have going for you is your hand-selection. Lastly, J-3 is not a starterhand, not even suited. First three positions after the BB are A/A, A/K pref.suited, A/Q pref.suited, K/Q pref.suited on a full table. Short handed you can play middle position hands aswell. J-3 pref.suited is a hand you can play while on the BB without a pre-raise in the early to middle positions and with folded late positions. Just check and be ready to fold on the flop, with a view on bagging an outside win. Depending on the skill of the players when the table gets shorthanded, you can play even less probable hands, alternating between being tight-agressive and loose-passive.