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01-04-2011 , 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by wykh
Otatop you have confirmed that you have no understanding whatsoever what a PFAI chart is showing. It has nothing to do with which cards I choose to shove with, only whether the the theoretical odds match the actual odds over a period of time.
So that's not an all in EV chart?
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01-04-2011 , 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Monteroy
Go with it from a different angle.

Let's assume this proves whatever you want to believe it proves. Explain why this is happening to you, the theory behind this, the money the site would make, how many people would be in on it, how much it cost you (you did not specify the stakes). Try to be more specific than "all companies steal" or "they punish good players" both of which belong on riggie anti-capitalism protest march posters.

Provide more details as to your personal plight in this matter (how much it cost you for instance). Plenty of people have charts without mysterious kinks, both winners and losers - how do the sites decide who to kinkify?

Then add how many rooms you think this thing (whatever it is) is happening at and to how many players are impacted (even theoretical guesses are fine).

Also explain why so far only casual riggies feel these issues instead of the tons of hard core grinders who play literally millions of hands each and analyze their databases as well. This has a bit of that UFOs annoy farmers in Idaho thing going for it, and I guess I am puzzled why whatever you believe is afoot with you - why it has not happened to others who are more more adept at using these software tools.

Again, this is all based on the assumption that whatever you want to believe is true, you just need to flesh out the theories a bit more to make them more robust.

You posted a cute graph and think the kink is spooky. Now add some context to this tale. This would be refreshing to see done regardless of what your theories are as you would be addressing the areas that most riggies ignore. You can of course always choose the easier option and go with a "what are they paying you shill" comment as well which completely avoids the topic. Hopefully you will be the first riggie to take on the challenge properly. If so, congrats in advance with whatever you say in response (mean that actually).

All the best.
In my opinion there are only 2 possible reasons why a pokersite should rigg the game.

1. actiongames to increase the potsize and the rake, that would be noticed by regular players.

2. Boom and doom for new players that havent played for a while and just make a new deposit. They have more fun to play, redeposit after the doom and you get more fresh money into the pokereconomy
Regulars would NOT notice something, long term its random, you only have a slightly better run at the beginning....

But anyone is free in his decision to trust or to not trust..to play or better have other hobbies. Poker is not so much fun that it is worth to pay 20-30$ / hour for low stakes. You have to beat the system to make it worth the time.
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01-04-2011 , 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Monteroy
Do yourself a favor and read about the detailed work some people did in the UB/AP scandal, the Stoxpoker softplay issue and the various bot investigations.

Every single hand dealt on Stars and most on Tilt are tracked in PTR, and even the 2 NL and 5 NL games and $1 sit and gos have grinders who are stats freaks (we get math nuts applying all the time who play the tiny games).

You are taking your situation (big score then weaker results) and creating a world around it to try to explain it when all it is is you got lucky in a tournament. Lots of people have spike graphs, and lots have consistent winning and losing (look at the "awesome sharkscope graphs" thread in BBV).

You are not a typical riggie, and you see that most of the throwaway riggie beliefs are of the "all companies commit crimes because they can" variety without any worry about details like whether the crime makes money or is practical (or even possible).

Do yourself a favor to separate yourself from this crowd and before you get further into the "maybe I am doomswitched" belief make sure you do the research I suggest and see for yourself the utterly insane analysis others have done. Add in the billion hand study spadebidder did as well.

Reality is you are very likely a casual micros player who got lucky in a tournament and that is great. If you play casually you can believe in whatever you like if that adds to your fun, but if you want to improve as a player and take poker seriously then do yourself a favor and do the research I suggested and let the true paranoid people and gimmicks hold the riggie fort for now.

If you are an above average player than your concerns that are keeping you in freerolls are actually costing you money.
APPLYING TO.............POKER STARS?, FULLTILT?
come on now, which one do you work for?
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01-04-2011 , 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by TheTruth5
APPLYING TO.............POKER STARS?, FULLTILT?
come on now, which one do you work for?

Even if you are a gimmick, thank you for making my point about what true paranoia is like to the fellow you quoted. Perhaps you will scare him straight (for fear of becoming a genuine version of you) better than I can logic/common sense him to reason.

Regarding my shilldom, I have already made it clear that I am willing to pretend to work for whatever site riggies want to believe at whatever rate they want to make up, so pick a site and a rate and post it and I will say "sure, that is what I make shilling the site in the riggie thread."

After that you can keep quoting the exact rate and site as proof as much as you like as that will greatly amuse me.

I am offering to agree to whatever you like with your shill beliefs, are you going to have what it takes to actually put specifics to your beliefs in that? Riggies hate specifics so this will be a fun battle of forces at work. I expect you will simply ignore it as you do all the time when paranoid slogans get replaces by specifics (even specifics about your future paranoid slogans).

How about it gimmick/riggie? Put a room and a set salary in this thread and I will agree to it, and probably other s"shills" will as well (though I do expect to get a higher rate of pay...)

All the best.
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01-04-2011 , 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by solucky
In my opinion there are only 2 possible reasons why a pokersite should rigg the game.

1. actiongames to increase the potsize and the rake, that would be noticed by regular players.

2. Boom and doom for new players that havent played for a while and just make a new deposit. They have more fun to play, redeposit after the doom and you get more fresh money into the pokereconomy
Regulars would NOT notice something, long term its random, you only have a slightly better run at the beginning....

But anyone is free in his decision to trust or to not trust..to play or better have other hobbies. Poker is not so much fun that it is worth to pay 20-30$ / hour for low stakes. You have to beat the system to make it worth the time.
These are two perfect examples of why the software is rigged. Action games to increase pot size are obvious and noticed, but dreamers dont want to believe it. Example #2 is the norm at all sites, just ask anybody whos played online(with the exception of the dreamers and site promoters).

Plus, youre not going to beat the system at this time being a u.s. player if that is the case in your situation.

ok now, paid site promoter monteroy and the dreamer Wiki, your turn.
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01-04-2011 , 02:10 PM
Monteroy, let me try this again, its really not that hard of a question. You say you have math nuts applying all the time who play small stakes poker. Apply to whom?
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01-04-2011 , 02:20 PM
Inappropriate to post links to other sites at twoplustwo, but some people use enough common sense to use google to for instance google my user name to get a better idea of what it might be about.

Also, if you read banonline's hate posts toward me, he does a good job of shilling for us without intending to do it.

Regarding your faith in action hands, you should look over this thread and see when I posted a very detailed theory of "non action hands" which would actually generate a site more rake and likely be hidden from detection. Obviously nothing can get around the "what about the people who know telling the truth" scenario, but riggies ignore that anyway.

A few of the other shills actually further developed my theory and we did show how a site like stars could make a few million or so per year from the type of "rig" I suggested, but it was hardly worth the risk even for that. They make more than that on rake on a typical Sunday just from a few MTTs they run.

If I posted my theory under a gimmick account you and other riggies would have totally loved it because it had depth and business acumen within it and it did make sense if that type of crime was going to happen. The numbers made it pointless to commit as a crime (too small for large rooms to do and tiny rooms will just steal players money by not letting cash outs happen).

Action hands have been shown to lower the house rake here and elsewhere through the combination of the time they take and the fact that they create a spike in cash flow from one player to another when the optimal rake is achieved with lower spikes in that regard. Kind of funny that more riggies cling to action hands as a rig when non action hands (2-3 players see the flop, and all fold to a continuation bet) as a rig would be far more practical to pull off and lucrative.

Guess riggies look at the world backwards.

Thanks for helping shill what I do as well! I will double your shill salary as a result

All the best.
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01-04-2011 , 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by The+Doctor
This is actually one of the innumerable reasons i play on pokerstars. Because of random input data that is used in RNGs to generate numbers, the player actions is -directly- influencing WHICH card comes out because of the deck constantly randomizing at every bloody phase. So, for instance, if a play waits 5 seconds to act instead of 20, it's directly influencing the outcome (whether it's predictable or not) of the next card. I TAKE ISSUE WITH THIS.

As in Live Casino play, there should be a "physical" shuffle, a set of physical variables, physically moving (and randomizing) cards. Once the shuffling has completed the deck is set. FATE HAS BEEN DECIDED. I take comfort in knowing that at least on Pokerstars, that final card was ALWAYS coming to screw me. That card didn't appear (whether it can be predicted or not) because of someone check-raising in a weird spot, or clicking their mouse in a weird pattern to change the mathematical outcome or WHATEVER.

I have always been unsettled by this blatent difference in software for the #1 (Stars) and #2 (FTP) sites on the net.. It's always just seemed weird to me.
exactly how i feel.
I played FT and another software at the same time same stakes and same style of play. players played totally oppositte on either site. on ft its like they know calling 810 all in on 673 flops bring 9 on river because it does. its like whoever calls there hands turns into money. I get 4bet preflop so i shove all in AK suited k 9 off calls flop 998 im like get the fuq outta here. Then flop 10J3 i got 10 10 10. Ak shoves all in 200 bucks into a 40 dollar pot and turns the nuts im like get fuqn real ....fuq FT riggathon
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01-04-2011 , 02:45 PM
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Originally Posted by pokerxpolice
exactly how i feel.
I played FT and another software at the same time same stakes and same style of play. players played totally oppositte on either site. on ft its like they know calling 810 all in on 673 flops bring 9 on river because it does. its like whoever calls there hands turns into money. I get 4bet preflop so i shove all in AK suited k 9 off calls flop 998 im like get the fuq outta here. Then flop 10J3 i got 10 10 10. Ak shoves all in 200 bucks into a 40 dollar pot and turns the nuts im like get fuqn real ....fuq FT riggathon
And yet you continue to play there.

Presumably this is you trying to make your case to the other players playing there?


Last edited by Wiki; 01-04-2011 at 02:59 PM. Reason: tpyo
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01-04-2011 , 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by TheTruth5
ok now, paid site promoter monteroy and the dreamer Wiki, your turn.
Last night I had a dream.

I dreamed that TheTruth5 had got a clue.

Then I woke up.
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01-04-2011 , 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by WallaceWins
Yes, its rigged. Come on guy use your head.

These sites make money off of RAKE. So the software is "Programmed" to make the sites MORE MONEY.

They let you win some then lose some. Maybe 4% have a strong Positive ROI but research who they are... Hummm

If this site was working I would post a screen shot that shows this on Poker Stars but the image
paste feature is not working...."Broken" sigh ....

Now lock this ridicolus thread and lets talk about playing Real Live Poker..
I googled Monteroy, and am quessing you are the guy at stars?? Maybe the poker blog, too? Anyway, copied this post, and the paragraph in bold probably sums up your success.
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01-04-2011 , 02:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Wiki
Last night I had a dream.

I dreamed that TheTruth5 had got a clue.

Then I woke up.
WIKI, come clean. You HAVE to be chanchp/electricldylnd from covers who got banned, right?
Nobody else could so amazingly ignorant to what goes on with these online sites.
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01-04-2011 , 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by TheTruth5
I googled Monteroy, and am quessing you are the guy at stars?? Maybe the poker blog, too? Anyway, copied this post, and the paragraph in bold probably sums up your success.
Bolded part of quote:They let you win some then lose some.

And tell us, Mr MegaBrain, how do you believe this differs from bricks and mortar poker?
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01-04-2011 , 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by TheTruth5
WIKI, come clean. You HAVE to be chanchp/electricldylnd from covers who got banned, right?
Nobody else could so amazingly ignorant to what goes on with these online sites.
There are hundreds of thousands of people playing regularly on 'these sites'.

Only a complete moron would continue to do that if they believed what you claim.

So, does that mean that the hundreds of thousands of regular poker players are 'amazingly ignorant'? Or are they complete morons?

It must be one of the other.

Please tell us which.
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01-04-2011 , 03:05 PM
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Originally Posted by pokerxpolice
exactly how i feel.
I played FT and another software at the same time same stakes and same style of play. players played totally oppositte on either site. on ft its like they know calling 810 all in on 673 flops bring 9 on river because it does. its like whoever calls there hands turns into money. I get 4bet preflop so i shove all in AK suited k 9 off calls flop 998 im like get the fuq outta here. Then flop 10J3 i got 10 10 10. Ak shoves all in 200 bucks into a 40 dollar pot and turns the nuts im like get fuqn real ....fuq FT riggathon
So if it's that simple, start shoving with your 2 outers and ship the money.

You're like the 400th person in this thread to have figured out this money making scheme and not take advantage of it.
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01-04-2011 , 03:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Wiki
And yet you continue to play there.

Presumably this is you trying to make your case to the other players playing there?



actually i dont play cash online anymore its fuqn rigged . full tilts shufflin after dealing a flop?? RIGGGGGGGGED
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01-04-2011 , 03:14 PM
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Originally Posted by pokerxpolice
actually i dont play cash online anymore its fuqn rigged . full tilts shufflin after dealing a flop?? RIGGGGGGGGED
All the big sites/networks use stochastic temporal information as part of their randomisation techniques.

You are just as affected by the previous actions of other players if the deal is done in one go as if it is done in several stages.

Obsessing about at exactly which point a particular card is decided is nothing more than primitive, unreasoned, superstition.

Letting such concerns inform your playing decisions is little (if anything) short of moronic.
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01-04-2011 , 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Wiki
There are hundreds of thousands of people playing regularly on 'these sites'.

Only a complete moron would continue to do that if they believed what you claim.

So, does that mean that the hundreds of thousands of regular poker players are 'amazingly ignorant'? Or are they complete morons?

It must be one of the other.

Please tell us which.
Sure there are plenty players that beat the system but i have my doubt that there are hundreds of thousands regulars...its more hundred of thousands that play weekly / monthly for entertainmant and pay a few $ for that hobby..and also a few hundreds of thousand in there twenties that dream from easy money..but the most fail to beat the system for significant money.

I have my doubt that more than 100 000 make 100 K and more with poker.
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01-04-2011 , 03:26 PM
^^^ i know players in WA that make 1k a week playing live FIXED LIMIT poker cant say the same about online
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01-04-2011 , 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Wiki
Bolded part of quote:They let you win some then lose some.

And tell us, Mr MegaBrain, how do you believe this differs from bricks and mortar poker?
Love how you left out the second sentence, which is the key to the whole thing. You truly are the dreamers dreamer.
And all those people who play, and the numbers are declining daily, are newbies or dreamers like yourself.
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01-04-2011 , 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Wiki
All the big sites/networks use stochastic temporal information as part of their randomisation techniques.

You are just as affected by the previous actions of other players if the deal is done in one go as if it is done in several stages.

Obsessing about at exactly which point a particular card is decided is nothing more than primitive, unreasoned, superstition.

Letting such concerns inform your playing decisions is little (if anything) short of moronic.
i have had highest 31 FULL buy ins on a table after like 12 hours sitting. i still thik its riggeed
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01-04-2011 , 03:37 PM
Am i correct here:

wiki=ftp rep
monteroy-ps rep
?
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01-04-2011 , 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Monteroy

If you are an above average player than your concerns that are keeping you in freerolls are actually saving you money.
AGREED
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01-04-2011 , 04:11 PM
Guess we are reaching the end of your gimmick account if you are going to quote me and change what I said without even indicating you changed it.

That's a lame tactic even for a riggie. Even you hated it when Wiki did it to you (which granted he does all the time)

I already made you a challenge about my shill career, one that would let you define that world however you liked, however it required you to be specific (and we all know how much riggies love specifics). I see you ignored it as I predicted.
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01-04-2011 , 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by TheTruth5
wiki=ftp rep
monteroy-ps rep
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