Confirmed: Live poker rigged to create action flops.

Obv photoshop

+1

Everyone says online poker is rigged but I've seen this happen twice now in live poker in 2 months.... (Other on the $250k or $500k cash game in twitch).

Starting to trust online poker again.

Curious about the Macau guys. The Chinese stock market is crumbling and I;m wondering how its effecting Richard Yong and all those guys.

lol Its the 0.1%ers that win when it crashes.

will stars ever add nosebleed stakes, for example Fixed games, 3-6k like old ft days, and 500-1000 in nl/plo games?

no /thread

plan to explain why not? what's the disadvantages against it?

Just looking at NVG's current posts is seriously disturbing!

Seems only way to succed now would be something like this:

1) Buy PLO GTO Bot
2) Make Multiple Accounts
3) Play Huge Volume
4) If you ever play live make sure you angle shoot

Seems legit right

Us secretary of state gambled away $430,000 in campaign funds.
http://www.highstakesdb.com/6114-us-...ign-funds.aspx
lol

Prepare your questions carefully. . .

ORIGINAL from 2 years ago

This had to be to win a bet.

Maybe not as its has the record for the longest place name in europe & 2nd longest in the world. It gets read out every so often & as today was the longest a King or Queen has served(23226 days) on the throne then prob why it was done today.

Aria have missed a trick.

They should run a $51k high roller and call it Aria 51... or maybe they do already, but it's secret.

So much Photoshop potential though.

This must be another example of outrageously funny British humor.

A shame you didn't appreciate it, but I'm not losing any sleep over it.

Hellmuth doing an AMA on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/commen..._brat_and_ive/

"I will begin answering questions here now through September 20th."

Which can only be a good thing for poker

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34320201

The Borgata Bakery had the audacity to close at their listed time of midnight. Minutes later at 12:02 hungry poker tournament players were released from a tournament hoping to acquire some tasty treats. Upon approaching the bakery they were turned away due to the fact that they had just closed and people whose shifts were over wanted to go home. Jonathan Little took to twitter to voice his displeasure with this, going so far as to claim the workers should be fired:

https://twitter.com/JonathanLittle/s...36303643885568

https://twitter.com/JonathanLittle/s...36774324498432

https://twitter.com/JonathanLittle/s...41197637513216

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In the US poker has gained some official recognition in the last few years:

1. Several US state courts have ruled that, since in poker skill matters more than luck (this is called the "predominance test"), it is a game of skill, therefore, it is not gambling.

2. Poker is now included in the game list of the International Mind Sports Association, along with games such as Chess and Go.

3. The US Department Labor list of occuaptions includes Professional Poker Player.

And yet none of these has made any real measurable difference. I'd likely take action on a federal bill not passing within 10 years; I'll lay odds on 5 years.

It's a fairly long article but it's well worth a read, about how a long running cheating method was uncovered at the highest levels of international bridge.

http://www.newsweek.com/big-rich-che...-busted-375414

I'm not up on bridge but read the whole article and the game seems ridiculously easy to cheat.

They have basically been caught for using the same signals in weird spots over and over.

If they were to progress through a set of signals how would they ever really be caught? Yes they could be heavily suspected to the point their peers knew something was up but they could never prove it?

If this is the case what a stupid game to risk large amounts of money on or even play in a competitive setting in the first place

This is sadly spot on (I am a competent bridge player myself and I am friends with several world class players).
One thing is that you don't "risk" money as the money comes from sponsors paying you to be on their team. This supposedly was a healthier way than cash prizes in the tournaments but it turned out the sponsors are very happy to hire pairs with bad reputation because they bring good scores.

It is ridiculously easy to cheat and if the mentioned pairs weren't math illiterate they would never be caught (the simplest way would be to XOR the binary signals with some random stream of bits they could easily memorize before the match).

Additionally even if people don't want to cheat they often convey info subconsciously and it pays off to be easy to read (by the partner).

It's a great game but a terrible competitive game.