The great "Poker is rigged" debate - Collected threads edition

[Devilboy666]

6 buyins is not a big downswing. How many hands are did you play at NL50?

[Vandalar]

When i played more than 12 hours a day i started to think that its rigged too. Now i think it's not rigged (mostly). Although some little things might be slightly altered. But it is only a guess and i say it because there is a possibity for it. Just like saying that there might be some other life form like humans outside our galaxy or smth like that.
So the point is very simple- if you can't handle the swings- get a bigger roll or move down or stop playing.

[theb00radley]

Originally Posted by gustavv

[ ] sick
[X] standard

Hardly standard, unless you think that a 15000-1 shot is standard.

[theb00radley]

Originally Posted by grindtofreedom

the funny thing about internet poker being rigged is the more you study and practice and really commit to improving, the less and less rigged it gets.

Practice and a commitment to improving does not guarantee results. I've been playing and working on my game for 2 years now but success still eludes me. I consider myself to have a good analytical mind and will usually achieve some measure of success at whatever I apply myself to, but it's just not happening in poker. I understand how people focus on their bad beats and don't remember the suckouts, but after constant analysis of my game i'm pretty sure my luck has not come close to evening out in those 2 years and 100,000+ hands.

I understand how the OP feels, but rather than believing the game is rigged I just believe that even over the long term luck does not even out, and some people are just luckier than others.

[biesas]

Originally Posted by Devilboy666

6 buyins is not a big downswing. How many hands are did you play at NL50?

it was within something like 4-5k hands, not much, dont remember exactly, because i couldn't play more because of bankroll and because have no clue how to play such donkluck poker. then started play SnGs.

[saddu]

that's pretty normal.. and if u think there are a 0.0001 probability of running so bad... some players online is going to run so...
3-4 month ago when used to multy-tabling stt i had a bad run where i lose 96 of 100 coin flip with a nearly 40 buy-in downswing. that s poker and long run can be veeery long if u don't have a monster edge.

[unlucky4me]

I don't think its rigged the way you are saying. I do think they make 2 really big hands come up against each other a lot more often than is should happen.

[BarrySanders]

[x] son will have gambling problems as an adult

[biesas]

Originally Posted by unlucky4me

I don't think its rigged the way you are saying. I do think they make 2 really big hands come up against each other a lot more often than is should happen.

thats the question, how to calculate it? is there any method to do that?

[absolutefish]

To satisfy everyone here.

Yes all poker sites are rigged to "set up" people with little or no skills and reward those who are good

OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT

ps if all these people are getting "sick coolers" then who the XXXX is winning all these showdowns????????????? SOMEONE MUST BE!!

pps hello to all,

[absolutefish]

Originally Posted by BarrySanders

[x] son will have gambling problems as an adult

lol at ^^

[JH1]

Originally Posted by theb00radley

Hardly standard, unless you think that a 15000-1 shot is standard.

lol. It IS standard. People win a 15,000,000:1 lottery every week. It's going to happen to someone and 15,000:1 is going to happen a lot more often.

If 100,000 people play on FTP in one day, this is bound to happen to 7 of them.

[High Time John]

OP sounds like Daniel whining on HSP everytime he would flop the nut straight and lose a huge pot to quads or full house.

[Pokerdemic]

Originally Posted by okiehustler

JH1. What you say I'm sure is probably somewhat accurate.

But I've been keeping a notepad the past two weeks just to see if I had selective memory. Believe my suck outs are about what they're supposed to be -- about 10% when odds are 90% against me. But when I'm favored it's nowhere close to me winning as many times as I should.

You should compile them all in a microsoft word document and then go have a drink with fgators.

[absolutefish]

Originally Posted by Pokerdemic

You should compile them all in a microsoft word document and then go have a drink with fgators.

orrr...compile them in a word document, then delete it, and jump off a building.