Hey Matt, welcome back. I was wondering if you would show up again or not. Disappointed in the new screen name choice though, you had upped your game, but it seems on the decline now.

With all of that said, I love the fact that in this entire post about how Global is like the worst thing to ever hit the internet, yet even you have to point out they do pay. Seems like a solid tag line for Global:

"Even the people who know our site is rigged admit we still payout"

Thanks for the heads up though. Thank you for your unfounded wild speculation that this site is bad and we should stay away. If it wasn't for first time 2+2 posters warning of scams, where else would I get my daily chuckles.

This guy needs to take his downswings like a man! This site is great. No problems so far just money in my hand!!! #plo #thegreatgame

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TL : DR

That feel when you fold to 3 or 4 BBs in a tournament and complain. LOL.

1. Many things could explain this line of play, could be as simple as someone playing multiple tables and not looking at chip stacks. Could be someone who is new to poker and doesn't have a strong grasp on ICM or money bubble strategies. Could be collusion, although I highly doubt that in a small SnG like you're likely playing. Collusion occurs in live games as well, but I digress.

2. Have you ever been dealt a Royal Flush? Personally, I've had a fair share online and two that I can remember from the live setting (I don't play much live poker anymore). Point is, Daniel Negreanu has only one documented Royal Flush in his career and admitted a few years back to never having been dealt one. Is poker rigged against him, or is it simple mathematics based off the number of hands someone has played. Play online, play more hands per hour, see more premium hands (although that was your thesis and main argument proving poker is rigged, so guess I'm delusional).

^^This. And mildly amusing he doesn't recognize it, although a bit boorish as that's always how these threads go.

Was this a $1.10 buy in?

The proper crazy tin foil hat word is sheeple, not sheep. If you plan to be the crazy guy everyone laughs at at least use the language of those more experienced than you at that craft. As played you are an amateur at everything with regard to quality.

All the best.

"Now onto Number 2 and this is where I believe COLLUSION has happened. A couple of hands later after I picked up a few more chips, the suspected GP employee is now in the BB with only 110 chips behind with 200 chips in the BB. I fold the button with about 500 chips and hope the big stack with 8,000 chips just simply min raises 110 more chips to force small blind all in and hopefully knock him out so we cash. But low and behold, the big stack folds for absolutely no reason. I don't care who you are in poker, you're playing 72 there. EVERY TIME."

I see this happen quite literally dozens of times every day. People aren't colluding. People are dumb.

Signed,
poker12, Global Poker Employee of the Month

Edit: all you have to do to crush SnGs is to play tight. That's it. God I love America.

Let's see. Some anecdotes about how Global and other sites are all rigged, backed up by stories of two hands that are supposedly proof that it's rigged, and one that there's collusion.

Um...that's pretty much the textbook "oh online poker is so rigged" rant.

People who are genuinely here for their first ever post on their first account don't usually feel the need to mention this, as we can all see how many posts you have.

Fine, I have no proof that it is in fact rigged, but let me ask you all this: does anyone have any proof that it's NOT rigged? Or at least not entirely random like it's supposed to be. I don't necessarily think it's rigged against any one player, I just don't believe it to be truly random.

There's not a poker player on this forum who hasn't questioned the legitimacy of this site. And that should be enough to wonder. I understand you all WANT it to be legit, or at least want others to think it's legit so you can continue to make money off of them. That's just greedy and not real poker. Poker used to be a game of respect and now it's a bunch of greedy losers who never leave their homes.

Someone give me proof that it isn't rigged, that there's no collusion, and that it's completely random and I'll rest my case. Until then, I will never actually trust the site and this post was just to share my opinions to others who are on the fence about the site.

Lastly, I don't want the site to be the joke that it is. I want to find a legitimate place to play, but GP just isn't it. It's unfortunate.

Howboutdah?

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Then maybe my beef has less to do with global and more to do with online poker in general. I don't care what anyone says, an RNG will never be the same as a random real shuffle. Why? Because it's a computer. A computer built by man could never be random. That is why true A.I. will never exist because a computer cannot think for itself or produce any true randomness.

I guess the fault is my own for trying computer poker again. It really doesn't matter which site it is, I have always questioned the randomness of it. Whereas I never leave a casino and say man, that REAL dealer and REAL shuffle had it out for me and that wasn't random at all.

Regardless if it's a certified RNG etc. it still doesn't prove that there's no cheating and/or collusion which has happened at every poker site. If you're willing to risk your money knowing those possibilities exist then all power to you. Again, this isn't just limited to Global, it could happen at any site. It just seems like GP is much different and worse and many others have chimed in on that as well. Hopefully the model gets fixed.

I have a right to my opinion and maybe I wanted people to agree and disagree so I could get multiple viewpoints and see where I stood. Start a conversation and see what happens. Maybe I just want someone to prove me wrong and make me look like an idiot so I can actually feel comfortable playing at GP or online poker in general. (;

Instead, I got bullying, condescending replies from people who only survive by the "safety in numbers" rule. Although there were a couple of you who had mature neutral responses, so thank you for that.

You misspelled "I guess". I fixed it for you.

The issue is the initial post. Declaring something is a sham or fake when there are thousands of posts saying otherwise will always get a slew of bad replies. Then adding in claims of obvious collusion....just ramps it up.

Voicing frustration is one thing and we have all done it. Joining and suddenly posting a warning/psa for people that have been on the site for 9+ months is another.

To be honest, you didn't get anywhere near the hate that some riggies do. Global has issues, no question. They've even been pretty good at working with the players here, although seem to be MIA the last several weeks.

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I completely agree actually. After seeing the negative responses I realized my initial post was the catalyst. I was venting frustration and my opinion, I just did it in the wrong way.

You're not wrong. I can only blame myself

I just hope the term "computer poker" catches on.

I should have just started the thread as a question and not a statement. The statement came purely from frustration and venting.

Yeah, it definitely started bad and went downhill from there, lol.

Keep in mind, there are tons of people on Global that don't actually play poker. They got their free $2 from FB or one of their contests. They are just goofing around and that's why so many showdowns are multi-player pots.

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This is exactly where my frustration comes from. After black Friday, it has been incredibly hard to trust any online poker site. I have been screwed countless times and frankly it just gets old. So this leads to overreacting. If it barks like a dog, it's a dog right? Well, GP is barking and due to so much BS from poker sites the last several years, it's extremely easy to jump to conclusions and say yes, it's a dog. Maybe I'm wrong, hopefully I am. But I hear barking.

Maybe it's just a cat meow?

Oh man, people do collude in sngs. It happens on every poker site. I mean common, you should expect it sitting with 8 or 5 random guys that some of them might actually be on the phone or something like that. But when they do collude you won't really see it as they won't make it as transparent. And yes in online poker you see much more hands. Playing 6 tables at once it happened so many times to me that people are going allin pre with random junk like Q7o and hittin QQ on the flop against my KK or something. So ****ing what. I do want them to go allin like this every ****ing time. If you do proper BR management you don't even notice those bad beats. Actually every time these guys win I want to thanks rng gods as they will give me this and even more later. I don't think I ever played on site that soft as GP. Back in days I was playing FT for NL10 and I didn't have even close to the winrate that I had here. Ffs 30bb/100, are you kidding me? I will take every bad beat I can get to have a win rate like this on higher limits.

And yes, having 4bbs and not going allin with it flopping FH. whatthe****iswrongwithyou

Let me go back to the posts many many pages back. Where there was talk of GP being a sweepstakes site and as long as you stayed in the hand you may have been predetermined to win the hand (sweepstakes. Then the RNG certificate came out and put that theory to bed but....No where on the certificate does it say the RNG is for the deck of cards. The RNG could be used to randomly generate the seat number of the person who will win the sweepstakes, provided he/she does not choose to leave the sweepstakes before winner is determined (fold hand). And yes the board can change to determine a new winner of the sweeps if the predetermined winner folds. So the RNG could be not referencing the deck but the random seat number of the potential winner.

This is not my belief just a theory for people to knock around because when I need a laugh I always come back to this conspiracy thread.

Haha see ya at the tables.