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Originally Posted by DedicatedToPoker
If it was at all the relevant portion of my post I definitely would but since it's not, no. I won't.
okay, let's analyze your post.
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Originally Posted by DedicatedToPoker
Ok well ...if the guy can have his AA's beat by garbage 7 times in a row and you yourself agree that this is "standard" in poker, I think we've passed the point where poker is really "a thing". It's popularity is already in the dark ages like it's 1982 again and I don't think very many people have interest in a game where they can beat someone 7 times in a row and yet lose each time. There is no other game on earth like that lol. That's the whole point of a game. The winner wins.
Once again - Never, ever, ever see anything like that in live poker. Only online. How can that be?
I also have to be completely honest with you guys: Let's just take the US by itself. In the US, other than on the internet and specifically this site, I can't remember meeting and talking to one soul who didn't laugh at the idea of online poker and say "it's horribly rigged". So, whether it's rigged or not, do believe that the overwhelming perception in the US is that online poker is rigged and this is a huge part of the reason that so few people play it. There's 350 million + people in America. The vast majority of them don't even know you can still play online poker in 2017 if you're an American. It's in the shadows.
As an aside, 2p2 is the only place that I've ever seen hostility toward people who suggest online poker is rigged. FWIW.
The first paragraph is basically some whinning that somebody lost 7 times in a row with A A. You refuse to post something to demonstate that it even happened. So that's about that with the first paragraph. The only other thing that I would comment about is the phrase " the winner wins". Well, the best hand usually wins at showdown ( since you used this phrase in correlation to AA
supposedly getting cracked 7 times in a row ). Well, if you have A A you're not guaranteed to win by the river. Shocker, I know.
The second paragraph says that you have never seen something like that in live poker. Well, I've seen flopped quad 8's vs aces full live, straights beaten by runner runner full house, top set beaten by runner runner flush or runner runner straight. I can give you many more examples. The thing is, the number of hands played online greatly surpass the volume of live players, hence the more crazy hands. The thing is, when it happens live, nobody thinks oh "I've been cheated", they take it for granted. If online, your As Ks loses to 7h8h all in preflop which is little more than a coinflip, lots of people scream RIGGEEEED!
In the third paragraph you go about US people thinking online poker is rigged. You make an assumption. You say you have never encountered a person that has never said that OLP is not rigged which I suspect to be false. And in regards to your statement that the reasons why americans don't play online poker because they think it's rigged I can only chuckle at it. Have you ever heard of Black Friday ? Stars and Tilt getting flushed out ? Legislation and illegal to play online poker in many states ? FYI, before Black Friday there were americans that screamed RIGGED as you do, maybe even harder and louder than today, but there were a lot of americans that played online poker.
I know that ACR accepts US players and I presume that a lot of them play there.
Your last paragraph is about 2p2 being hostile to riggies. Go to any reputable poker forum and you will be surprised to see the same thing. To give you a similar example, I am European and we love football ( you call it soccer ). Lots of people have the "gut feeling" that matches in the top leagues across Europe are systematically fixed and that referees, Football associations, Clubs, Governments etc. are in on it. I used the word systematically because, of course, if you do a quick search there have been some corrupt referees or clubs that accepted bribe from third parties to fix the matches. The thing is, they've been caught. Am I saying that all football matches are fair ? No. There might be some that are fixed, because hey, human nature, but the idea of an International Fraud system to fix matches with this many people involved in it is totally baloney. The same can be applied to this discussion.
P.S. : Now can you post evidence ?