> My last hand was a pair
> of A's which I split and lost both hands causing me to
> lose 11 units instead of 10. This kind of freakish bad
> luck is very annoying. Obviously, anything can happen
> in this game.

It's not freakish. That will happen to you again and again as you play on ond on. One of the most common faults of newer players is that they don't realize the magnitude of risk that emobodies gambling.