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Originally Posted by Unseemly2p2Name69
Are all riggies actively trolling? I can totally see it online while playing, for image purposes, and I actually do this quite a bit, but in this thread also?
Absolutely not. I'm sure we have some that do, but I believe the majority aren't.
For starters, I'd be surprised if the thought hasn't at least briefly crossed a lot of players' minds - even some of the so-called "shills" ITT.
I remember that a few years ago when I was clearing a monthly video poker promo, I ran so horribly for a few months that I was starting to question everything including the RNG. But like most logical people, I went for the simpler explanations first. Started by checking to make sure I wasn't making any strategy errors, but all seemed to be well there. Then I took a closer look at the odds, and realized that with so much of my EV tied up in royal flushes, high variance might not be that unexpected. Kept at it, and of course everything righted itself. I didn't just start running at EV, but was lucky enough to run far enough over to end up at or slightly ahead of EV over the whole period of play - before they changed the terms and the promo was no longer worth playing.
I have a good friend that while not a genius, is a reasonably smart guy. In spite of that, he simply can't be convinced that what the player in the "anchor position" at a blackjack table does has no bearing on his results in the long run.
Ever get a new car and then notice there are a lot more cars just like yours on the road that weren't before? There aren't, of course.
How often do you hear people attributing things to "Murphy's Law"? Or claim that bad events always happen in threes?
My point is this - the human mind is a funny thing, and makes us see patterns that simply aren't there. It doesn't surprise me in the least that there are lots of people that are utterly convinced that their poor results (whether they are losing, or not winning as much as "they should") are a result of something being amiss with the RNG.