You have yet to establish that your opinion has more weight than mine (or anyone else's).

My SN is chuckychess; what is yours?

n.b. I should add that my opinion certainly has no more weight than anyone else's, either.

Do you believe that it is possible that Bovada might falsify some of the holecard data so that it looks "fair"?

+1

Of course, there are many regs on every pokersite that have similar stories.

I have to say for a site to give out as much free money as they do I wouldn’t be shocked if they were doing something else to make up for the money. I’ve heard of people sending in over 100k a year in envelopes. So there has to be quite a few doing similar. They have to make up for those losses somehow

I seriously doubt there is something fishy with their RNG that some are trying to claim 'helps the fish win more'. Not only would this be difficult to pull off, many aware players would notice even without the catalog of hand histories. (Tough for me to say this after running bad where my opponents hit every draw or have a higher set everytime I get it in good)

While I like how Global does not keep hand histories to prevent data mining and predatory play, I do think it is important to routinely examine statistics for anomalies. Finding outliers, statistical anomalies, is how super users on Ultimate Bet and other sites got caught.

Looking through this forum you will find many folks who have had their accounts locked for a variety of reasons, this still me that Global does have a method for flagging accounts that could be up to no good like collusion.

They make up for it by not having any rakeback.

It's fine and dandy and wonderful to not give out your SN. This is an anonymous forum, after all.

Having said that, what you can't do (if you believe in intellectual honesty) is to tell us that you are one of the biggest winners on Global, and then not tell us who you are.

By the way, I won a Nobel Prize. (Prove me wrong, Skippy.)

I can't speak for the difficulty of winning a Noble Prize. I won the Nobel Prize.

Since I'm not revealing my identity, you'll just have to take my word for it that i won a Nobel Prize.*

*I actually doxxed myself in the P&S Forum a couple of years ago, so you don't have to take my word for it. But you would have to do a little bit of research, and if there is one thing that almost all riggies have in common, they almost invariably insist that the non-riggies do all the work. The riggies make random accusations of a site being rigged, and everybody else has to prove that the site is not rigged.

Full disclosure: I must confess that I have never won a Nobel Prize. But I did win a nice little plastic toy from a box of Crackerjacks once.

We have various methods to flag collusion, chip dumping, multi-accounting or use of third party tools - all that arsenal of tools is controlled by a dedicated "Game & Platform Integrity" team of specialists who are monitoring games on our platform. Some of these tools are in place as a requirement from a broader business stakeholders but all of the tools/resources allocated to this effort are specifically because our GM believes a strong Game Integrity team is one of the critical pieces required for Global Poker success.

my one interaction with a member of your game integrity team was very positive. They were very helpful.

Can you explain this then? https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...69/?highlight=

How is a known cheat still playing on global poker? And how was one of the players involved (Spork) granted a change in screen names while continuing to play? Why was this not a permanent ban? It is not welcoming realizing that a known cheat continues to play on your site, but is something everyone playing on it should be aware of. You know, to protect against predatory behavior.

Sounds like you got bailed out by a player who they themselves were cheating, and it wasn't anything on your end that actually prevented the cheating itself from happening in the first place. Great work keeping Spork in the games though.

if they showed hand histories it just helps the good players get better if they can study other players tendencies.

Well said.

You, GPA, a dewd and myself expressed the idea that HH's benefit only the strong players at the expense of the weaker players. Bobo isn't buying that explanation, though.

Thank you for sounding the alarm bells, Bobo.

Now that the alarm bells are ringing loud and clear, what plan of action do you propose?

(My own plan is to continue playing on Global as long as I find the experience to be both enjoyable and profitable.)

We will not comment on individual cases because a) we already did that last year when it happened, both here, through emails and on our Discord server, and b) doing so extensively would expose the way we are able to detect such activity.

Suffice to say that we have detected the group proactively and, after evaluating all the circumstances and confidence in the evidence we collected in each case, took proportional actions including game balance adjustments of honest customers who were negatively affected by such activity.

We are always researching new ideas and ways to improve our processes and tools so that our customers get poker experience they are looking for on our platform.

While this thread should just go with the riggy threads, I have one question for those who think Global.Poker us not legit:

What makes you believe something is a fishy with the site?

Losing. They believe it's fishy because they're losing.. ohhhh human bias... poker is a great game ^_^

Not allowing known cheats like Spork to play on your site should probably be #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on the New Ideas and Ways to Improve. Like come on, what are we doing here? What exactly would top this?

I lost all-in's with AA five times in a row.

The donk ALWAYS hits his two-outer on the river.

After I withdraw half of my funds, I go on a long losing streak.

The lack of HH's PROVES that the site is shady.

yada, yada, yada....

BTW, there are a lot of Global players streaming on Twitch. Are they commenting on the "unreal" runouts and stuff?

Our latest riggie, BoboFett, claims that he is one of the biggest winners on Global. Of course, he doesn't provide his SN (surprise, surprise). Obviously, we should just take his word for it.

How do you feel about known cheats allowed to continue playing on Global after taking several thousands of dollars from those playing honestly? Is this more or less important than the identity of Bobo?

Is there rock-solid evidence of this person cheating on Global Poker? If not, stop wasting our time and forum space.

I posted this previously, but here you go again: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...69/?highlight=

I'm not reading through 6 pages of posts. Show me exactly where it proves that this person has used illegal software while playing on Global Poker.

Posts #56/60/67 are likely the main ones.

The link's been posted for a while and if you have time to read and quote a post in here of all places, then you can certainly read through detailed and admitted cheating. It's your choice whether or not to do so, but wouldn't you want to be more informed on something like this rather than dismiss it as a waste of time?