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Originally Posted by Pokernutz1954
I try not to be one of those "online poker is rigged" guys, but I just went on an epic bad run on bovada the past few days. I kept getting bad beat after bad beat. I had KK all in pre flop against QJ type hands and would lose one after another. I have heard many in the bovada chat complain how bovada wants the rec donkey to win and since I had been winning a lot lately and putting in massive hours I can't help but think they are now "balancing it out." It must be my imagination, but I will be staying away from those type of sngs for now at least.
The other day I also felt similar, so I decided to back my emotions up with my actual database. Filtering my range of hands to only include AA, KK, and QQ, the percentage of times I've won the pot (showdown or not):
Lifetime: 77% (2.03bb/hand, 800k hands)
Bovada: 73% (1.95bb/hand, 60k hands)
While my sample isn't that big just yet, those numbers are comforting enough. The variance on Bovada is absolutely insane.