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Originally Posted by old_moose
but as always, one bad beat and there goes all the trust.
This is what I don't get. Taking you at your word (this is the internet afterall!) You are in your 70s and have been playing poker for a good chunk of those years: home games, casinos, backrooms, internet, etc. By now, if you've played as much as you've hinted at, you should have a fairly good understanding of the game, and at a minimum, a good feel for the strange things that can happy during a hand.
Then you go and say something like: "one bad beat and there goes all the trust." I don't get that. If you've played as much as you say you have, then you understand that bad beats are part of the game. You also understand that without bad beats no one would really make a profit in poker, because all the fish would stop playing.
You seem like a nice guy, and if I understand your most recent posts, you are less sure now that you have seen rigging going on.
I would recommend you get a program like pokertracker or Holdem Manager (search google, very easy to find) where you can track all your hands (not play money hands, I think, but all real money hands.) They each have free trials. You'll get a much better picture of what you are actually being dealt. If you're the kind of person I think you are, you'll actually get a kick out of analyzing the data.