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Originally Posted by AaronT
I've explained my personal motivations before. I'm a scientist. I'm also a member of skeptics organizations. I'm a science fair judge. Etc. If you haven't picked up on the pattern, it's important to me to promote sound, skeptical reasoning skills. This includes important things like being able to discern crackpot medicine from the genuine article. But it's a generic skill you can apply to almost anything. Seeing how to apply the skills here would allow a person to apply them to all areas of their lives.
And it's not the tinfoil hat wearing people reading this thread I expect to suddenly convert. It's the lurkers reading it I hope learn the underlying scientific methods for tested hypothesis to sift theories to determine truth from nonsense. And that IS something I am quite pationate about, enough to volunteer a lot of my time working on.
Short version: it's far more important to me that people learn how to use skeptical reasoning skills when confronting a questionable assertion then coming to a particular belief about the trustworthiness of online poker dealing.
So you're a scientist that promotes reasoning skills! Oh this is amazing! I've been looking for scientists all over the world that just so happen to dedicate their time defending internet poker. Thank God one turned up.
I'm also a scientist that seeks truth and enjoys logic. I'm having a lot of issues with the truth and your logic. Let me explain. Major poker sites (UB/AP) have already been caught cheating their customers. How were they allowed to do this? Well, there happens to be no regulation of these offshore companies at all! Now, which is more likely to happen when there is no regulation and a lot of money involved?
Two things..
1) The owners, employees, and everybody involved in pokerstars and fulltilt regulate themselves and run an honest operation. They even have team meetings every morning and read ethics codes and remind everybody that even though nobody is watching them, they remain honest. Forget the fact that this goes against the instrinsic human condition (greed, power, etc.)
or...
2) There are a lot of shady thing going on with these companies, including cheating their players. After all, UB/AP proved that they could do it and still operate. I mean, the customers are a bunch of degenerate gamblers anyways right? It doesn't have to be a consistently rigged deal. There are many ways to cheat their customers other than consistently rigging a deal. If you can have employee's take down the Sunday million, why not? That's one less honest customer taking money and more for your company. You win two-fold. You now have the degenerate donkey's giving you rake and you still get to keep the main prize in the large tournaments!!
Did you know that one rigged deal that forces a customer to lose a lot of money wouldn't even show up on your million hand sample size? In fact, the larger the sample, the less we'd notice any rigging at all.
So, if there were a way to rig a hand every now and then, explain to me how that would show up in a large sample size? I haven't even touched on superusing accounts. Why would I be ******ed to assume that superusing only happens at UB/AP?
Please enlighten me scientist. I seek truth like you do!