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Originally Posted by otatop
What motivates the sites to bad beat people? I can understand coolers, since that stems from live play, but how do bad beats help the sites out? Do they get more rake when they let someone hit a 2 outer?
MONEY motivates them. I guess when one really thinks about it, coolers and bad beats are the same thing. Coolers tend to happen pre-flop and after the river because both players usually try to slow play the nuts/2nd nuts the whole way, as opposed to bad beats are when players are all in on the flop/turn and get outdrawn. The classic cooler would be AAvs KK preflop and then it turns into a bad beat if a king hits. That would only be considered a bad beat if they were all in preflop, though which still makes it a cooler considering its AA vs KK preflop. Its basically a double edged sword and it slices both ways.
When AA vs KK get to a flop, turn, and river then its no longer considered a bad beat or cooler considering both players had ample time to convince the other player that they had at least 2 pair or a set. Calling an all in at any point with just an over pair would just be overplaying premium hands like many amateurs normally do.
Basically its possible, that online there is a program that can generate AAvsKK or something like it x amount of times within a given timeframe to force action and all in situations. This same system can also detect the size of the pot and decide whether or not "bad beat" cards are neccessary to insure an all-in situation. When this happens often, more money is deposited and away the profits go. That't just hypothetical, but if I was an evil gambling exec that's what I would do. More action creates more action ect ect ect.
Execs have all the best excuses in the book to cheat people. They can just tell victims that, "It's just poker." When a game involves billions of dollars, of course evil people will do what they can to ATTEMPT TO INSURE HONESTY WHILE THEY EXPLOIT YOU WITH A
SMILE ON THEIR FACES. It is poker after all, the most highly debated game of when skill and luck factor in.
Also, when 10s of millions of players are playing hundreds of millions of hands who is ever going to complain? Nobody goes any further than just being mad about their bad beats/coolers. They deal with it and fall back in the cycle. Few come out with large profits. I admit poker is fun and many play it just for the fun of it, but fun always turns into dependancy or just the need to win.
Many have the right mindset to think "If this guy can win at poker then so can I" which is true because nobody is above another human being, but that mindset should be for a something to do that is good and better for themselves and society.
Last edited by aaaaa45; 09-27-2009 at 07:20 PM.