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Who else can predict the bad beats when watching the WSOP coverage, much like predicting a bad beat when playing online?

well you can say that you have a good guess but watching poker on tv is not playing online poker.

well u are going to get a lot of more calling stations.fish and donks when playing a 5/10/25 bucks game online than when ppl play 10,000 buy in thats for sure.

Poker on TV is generally heavily edited. They like to show bad beats, good reads, big pots, and knockouts. Whatever gets the ratings.Playing poker online does not mean you are going to have bad beats any more than playing live. Except you see far more hands, so you are going to see more of everything that way, and if you have a problem with your game, it is likely magnified.

If you see a hand between two unknown players on the WSOP you can be pretty sure it is a bad beat or they wouldn't be showing it.

Well it's a live game versus an online one which means the pace is slower and they can actually see you when you play in person so tells is a lot bigger thing. The play also tends to be more loose aggressive partly because these guys will read your play a lot more readily, and the TV games tend to be shorter tables, so you have to vary your play more than you would at an online game. Whether they play too loose though is a topic for another day but you'll get kicked around for sure if you just play plain vanilla poker. As far as predicting a bad beat well there's a lot less of them live because there tends to be a lot less people in the pot at showdown.King Cobra Pokerhttp://kingcobrapoker.com

Watching the World Series on TV is just watching.No, it's not like actually playing online.Sometimes I watch the World Series of Poker on TV while I'm playing poker on-line, and I know that I'm doing two different things, and I don't get them confused.