You do realize that posts like this only seek to undermine your credibility as a site rep in the eyes of the players who read threads like this to be reassured. I find it troubling that this would even have to be mentioned.

This. I’m actually thinking of just screen recording every session for awhile. The deck seems to hit certain users (*cough*SitAndSpin [Poker12]*cough*) like a brick in the face.

Additionally the trend continues that the amount I cash out for I usually wind up being stuck before grinding it back up again or binking a tournament.

My thoughts are super mixed on this one considering I agree that half the difference is that when playing online we’re not going to see people jam the way they would in a live cash game. (At least as frequently.) However, that in mind, I also think what encourages some of that play is that the users see how many times two and four outers get there.

Sure, I could have played J3xx and flopped the stone nuts on a 333 board. But then again, why not wait till next hand when my AA gets destroyed after flopping a set by T7hh on a Ah6d3c board and they call a three bet jam on the flop?


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I'm not convinced one way or another if its rigged or not. I can tell you this though, if it's rigged or not the players are so bad you should still be able to make money overall. I play NL 10 mostly and cash about $100 per week easily. I've seen some really sick stuff on the site of course like everyone else. Losing with nut flushes over and over to someone filling up a full house on the river. Or my favorite one so far was nut flush vs river straight flush. Or how about top set vs bottom set and the bottom set hitting quads on the turn. All kinds of stuff I've never seen live.

Definitely not possible to hit quads in poker. Must be rigged

I have no idea about any on this. One thing I know for sure is that in the first 2 weeks I could not lose. Make the final table in tournaments again and again. It seemed WAY off.

Just wondering if anyone who signed up lost in the first couple of weeks. Did anyone run terrible immediately?

Yes

Very subtle sick brag bro

How do you guys track your results for cash games on here?

Hello Everyone,

First time posting here. Just have a few general questions about variance in Global Poker SnG tourneys.

I’ve been playing on the site for about two months. My win rate on micro-stakes SnG games hovers around 45-50%. I have seen some “unbelievable” beats on this site, like others have mentioned. Quads seem to appear too often. However, I’m not in the “online poker is rigged “ camp. I don’t possess enough data to make that assumption.

This past week I have hit a major downswing in SnG games. For instance today, I placed 2nd in one game out of 15 and didn’t place in the money in any other game. QQ lost all in pre-flop. KK lost three games pre-flip vs A-rag. The last game I played before throwing in he towel for the day was AA. I raised 3x BB in UTG. CO and BT call. Everyone else folds. Flop comes T55. I bet about half-pot. CO shoves, BT calls, and I call. CO shows JJ. BT shows AJ of diamonds and hits a flush on the river.

I know bad beats happen all the time. Not complaining. But today was such a major departure from my usual results and it was just infuriating. Is a 14 buy-in downswing within acceptable norms for this sort of game?

Long troll but ok

You do realize Joey was making a joke, which idk given this entire thread is filled with joke riggies seems in place. And I personally feel it's ok for a site rep to have a sense of humor. I would find it troubling that this would even have to be mentioned, except look at this whole thread and smh not surprised.

I use excel.

I just lost three times to A,A in the span of about four minutes. Including back-to-back hands in the same game where I was given J,J both times. Although, technically, I lost to 10,10 on that first hand.

https://play.globalpoker.com/poker-c...4b057fa1b0f913
https://play.globalpoker.com/poker-c...4b057fa1b0f912

Can one of you veteran whiners finish out this rant for me?

(Although, seriously, does someone know the odds of me getting J,J on back to back hands AND another player getting A,A on back to back hands?)

Not at all. I have a friend who ran great for the first 2 weeks as well. Seemed really unusual but obviously a 2 man sample size is too small and wanted to expand it here.

After the 2 weeks things went to normal and now I am running into flopped flushes, quads, and higher pocket pairs just about every time. Glad to hear some people ran bad right away after depositing. Puts my mind at ease.

I also use excel, in fact if you dig back in these forums I posted a copy of the excel spreadsheet I use. I don't remember the thread title, but I seem to remember it's title was pretty on point, and it was started by me, so you can look at my stats and find it pretty quick.

I have, at various times, cashed in 14 straight MTTs, hit quads two hands in a row, and been dealt AA 4 times in a span of 6 hands.....................................




AT MY LOCAL CASINO! Their RNG must be rigged too I guess. Either that, or poker is weird and unlikely things happen because math.

I saw set over set over set and bottom set rivered quads, WTF Global! Oh wait, that was at the Bellagio in Vegas, my bad. Carry on Global.

Hollywood Park's RNG was rigged one night in my favor, too. Donk called a big PFR with suited connectors and turned the straight flush. The very next hand I flopped quads queens and was paid off nicely by table drunks on both hands. One claimed it was rigged when I flopped quads.

Stupid is not only online, but in real life, too. Makes for good lulz

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You didn't actually say what kind of game you're playing...6 max, 9 max, larger? Swings happen, variance is higher in SnG's, especially the turbo variety.

You know all you guys who are so so sarcastic really crack me up. Like its not even worth asking the question or looking for more information.

Like it is so unheard of that HUGE legal and regulated S&P 500 corporations especially big banks are not constantly being fined for breaking laws and finding any edge they can to squeeze more money out of their customers. Try looking into Wells Fargo behavior over the last 5 years if you have any doubts.

Fraud and cheating is par for the course in the current business climate in the US. I don't blame anyone for being cautious and looking for more information. I'm not saying there is anything fishy here or anywhere but you are truly naive if you do not think most businesses lie and cheat these days. Eternal vigilance is required.

I'm not aware of anyone in this thread claiming that it is not wise to be cautious. If I have missed somebody, please show me the link. What is unwise, in my judgement, is for people to assume evil intent on the part of Global based on anecdotal evidence and emotionalism. (I know that you are not doing that, but some people in this thread are.)

I claimed that people are being super sarcastic on this thread. I did not claim that someone said it is not wise to be cautious. Very few consumers would ever admit they are not cautious yet many are scammed every day.

People are sarcastic due to the paranoid, proof lacking nature of the claims presented. Bringing up Wells Fargo is a false comparison, because that was a situation where there was a lot of verifiable evidence of wrongdoing. No riggie brings forth anything close to evidence of their claims/whines.

No doubt there have been some people on crates on street corners yelling about Wells Fargo before that, but that does not mean they had any gifted insight about Wells Fargo, they just happened to be yelling about a company that did some wrong, and the corner crazies yelling about other companies will hope it is their turn soon.

The dude on the corner yelling about Wells Fargo watching him or whatever likely got a similar sarcastic type of reply that the riggies here get, and if any riggie here actually provided some verifiable evidence about his claim then the response would be quite different. Hope that explains it a bit more.

All the best.

When people come in making ridiculous claims based on a hunch and then stand adamantly behind their hunch vs fact and/or logic, it is tough to take them serious. Early on in the thread, someone had the brilliant idea that the winner of every hand was pre-selected by the system. They offered zero proof, evidence, or explanation of how the system could determine who would even be in the hand. That person then became arrogant in suggesting they were smarter and their 'team' was working on it.

I put up a series of links with proof that he was wrong; yet, he kept beating the drum. As it turns out, he finally admitted that his hunch was incorrect and we could all be at ease due to his 'efforts'. He was a clown, period. There was no back and forth of any lucid argument on his behalf. It was all blabbering for no reason.

Another person suggested that in flipping a coin 500,000 times, there would be runs of 100 straight heads/tails. When shown the math of that ridiculous improbability, it didn't change the assumption that it would happen.

When people come and ask a serious question, they get serious replies. When they make ridiculous accusations and stand by them when they are easily proven wrong....sarcasm occurs. Like when a random poster declares that they 'know' PayPal is looking into Global Poker for circumventing the UIGEA. No, they do not know a thing. It is beyond folly to think that some unconnected individual has noticed something that legal counsel did not pick up on, let alone the fact that VGW reports audited financials to regulatory bodies.

Facts. Facts matter, when someone decides that their hunch has more weight of truth than a proven fact and vocalizes it, then people react in various ways. Laughing at the claim/s via sarcasm is just one way.

My apologies. I misread one of the sentences in your post. Perhaps I should learn how to read before commenting in threads.