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02-14-2011 , 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
OMG u gotta be on drugs if u dont know the answer to that
If the answer is so obvious, it should not be difficult for you to explain it.
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02-14-2011 , 10:55 PM
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Originally Posted by ferdinand
The problem is the pattern of good runs after depositing and this **** happening day in day out against new depositers after that good run ... I also have hands like these going my way, make no mistake. The problem is why on earth am I always ahead (first week) or always behind (several days in a row till I cash out and move sites)? I have ZERO downswings on online poker sites after depositing in and thats where I built my bankroll. The minute I smell Im getting cheated by sites I leave and keep profiting elsewhere ( I once decided to stay firm and play through the downswing, going progressively down in limits as I saw my bankroll vanishing. Lost almost half the roll beeing overly rolled for the stakes I was playing). On Bodog for instance, on the first 2 weeks playing there I made quads roughly every 1k hands for 10k hands in a row, made a royal and saw other two on the table !! I mean COME ON !!!

This is not a pokerstars specific issue. I see this at pokerstars, full tilt, betfair, titan poker and bodog. Same pattern over and over again ...

The red arrows are switching sites points (Have no HH from Bodog...). This is my graph to date (doesnt include bonus or rakeback):

http://img510.imageshack.us/i/graphred.jpg/
So prove it. Buy HH's for the site where you think this riggedness is happening, buy the first 10k hand histories for say 1000 people from a tracking site, combine them and do the math on AIPF hands with confidence intervals, SD and all that crap, the same style as spadebidder. Pay someone to do it if you don't know how yourself. Should cost you only a few hundred $ but first make this specific request, some tracking sites will oblige I'm sure.

If after that, the numbers differ significantly from the expected outcome, you will have proven your theory mathematically and become a hero, make lots of $$$.

Or if you're on a low budget, just make an account for a tracking site and look at the win-rates for a big number of players on their first say 10k hands (or whatever number you think the run-good stops at)

Or the way of the monteroy, just keep making new accounts where this is happening and run good all your life, make lots of $$$. I mean this last one would cost you nothing and would make you tons, what's stopping you?

Also, +1 to posting that hand + your theory in BBV
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02-14-2011 , 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Josem
If the answer is so obvious, it should not be difficult for you to explain it.
OK ill answer that if u promise to turn my doom switch off after i answer this being that u work for stars
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02-14-2011 , 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
OK ill answer that if u promise to turn my doom switch off after i answer this being that u work for stars
OK Josem 2 reasons why ....if this was a cash hand larger rake/action hand...2nd reason the faster they illiminate players from said game the faster they load another game
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02-14-2011 , 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
OK Josem 2 reasons why ....if this was a cash hand larger rake/action hand...2nd reason the faster they illiminate players from said game the faster they load another game
Surely people going busto faster would lower overall rake (although increase it short term)? Unless of course you assume infinite bankrolls. Martingale ftw
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02-14-2011 , 11:09 PM
maybe it's variance
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02-14-2011 , 11:10 PM
Ok, here is my observations about this subject;

Sites that use bots like UB are obviousely doing some rigging because the very nature of poker is man vs man with the house getting a rake; with a bot you are also playing the house. I do not believe that the random card generators are weighted heavily for the bots because I have won too many pots vs them in the micros where players are generally expected to play worse and therefore not notice the results.

Sites such as Full Tilt, where I have never knowingly played a bot seem completely legit. I thought there could be some rigging after I went on some hellish down swings, but upon further study via pokertracker and 15k hands, I have seen that my pots won, hole card distribution, while slightly different from statistical expectation, were in the expected ranges. My experience has been short rushes and slides of a few hundread hands and long stretches where, I just bounce up and down a hundred to one hundred fifty big bets. The players at my low and micro level play about like live 1/2 players and show down some crazy stuff like bottom pair calling big bets til the river then shoving with a rivered 2 pair. This creats huge swings.
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02-14-2011 , 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by MilkFi5h
Surely people going busto faster would lower overall rake (although increase it short term)? Unless of course you assume infinite bankrolls. Martingale ftw
Knew this was coming ! You have never watched players reload during cashgame now have you?
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02-14-2011 , 11:14 PM
BTW thanks to the shills im increasing my post count!
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02-14-2011 , 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
Knew this was coming ! You have never watched players reload during cashgame now have you?
Yes they do, lots, which is great, but there is a limit right? I also see people instaquit lots to though. Wouldn't the site's want to string it out as long as possible (especially in cash games) so it all gets chewed up in rake.
Rigging it for lots of marginal hands and lots of split pots would be a much more lucrative system wouldn't it?
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02-14-2011 , 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by MilkFi5h
Yes they do, lots, which is great, but there is a limit right? I also see people instaquit lots to though. Wouldn't the site's want to string it out as long as possible (especially in cash games) so it all gets chewed up in rake.
Rigging it for lots of marginal hands and lots of split pots would be a much more lucrative system wouldn't it?
Not if your said action hands were spread out.....what im trying to say is these hands are not going to come up every other hand come on now..that would really look bad !
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02-14-2011 , 11:23 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
Not if your said action hands were spread out.....what im trying to say is these hands are not going to come up every other hand come on now..that would really look bad !
But if they are spread out then that's just normal hand distribution isn't it?
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02-14-2011 , 11:25 PM
FTP really going out of their way to tell me I am not wanted. Getting rivered every hand in O8 and just had AAA cracked with runner runner quads. Yea that is so random.
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02-14-2011 , 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by MilkFi5h
But if they are spread out then that's just normal hand distribution isn't it?
OK milk do you actually see these hands live like u do here...dont give me that you play more hands on the net BS ....i play alot live! You just dont see these hands like u do here & yes i have about 200 of these over the edge action hands saved
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02-14-2011 , 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by banonlinepoker
FTP really going out of their way to tell me I am not wanted. Getting rivered every hand in O8 and just had AAA cracked with runner runner quads. Yea that is so random.
please talk to milkfi5h he will lead you to the water!
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02-14-2011 , 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
please talk to milkfi5h he will lead you to the water!
Now razz is even better. Every time I start with 3 cards under 6 the last 3 cards are always paint. Love ya FTP. Good luck in the US!
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02-14-2011 , 11:34 PM
Question of the day: How many times do you see live players on here complaining about badbeats?
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02-14-2011 , 11:36 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
OK Josem 2 reasons why ....if this was a cash hand larger rake/action hand..
I don't know if you're trying to play some joke on us, but:

a) it wasn't a cash game hand, you just said so.

b) so called "action flops" actually reduce the rake earned by poker sites.

'cause you don't even bother to read the recent discussions about this, I'm not going to bother retyping all this stuff:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=14061
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=14924

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.2nd reason the faster they illiminate players from said game the faster they load another game
Is there any evidence that people are more likely to play because they suffer a bad beat. Do you play more because you suffer a cooler?
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02-14-2011 , 11:36 PM
live poker is definitely rigged every time i have pocket kings an ace flops

Spoiler:

cause theyre ace magnets ldo
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02-14-2011 , 11:39 PM
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Originally Posted by banonlinepoker
FTP really going out of their way to tell me I am not wanted. Getting rivered every hand in O8 and just had AAA cracked with runner runner quads. Yea that is so random.
You must've made them mad with all your accusations. Getting too close to the truth! LOLZ pwned.

Now quick break your computer and save us all from having to read the same bs comments every time you make a post.

Don't worry, it's coming.
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02-14-2011 , 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Josem
I don't know if you're trying to play some joke on us, but:

a) it wasn't a cash game hand, you just said so.

b) so called "action flops" actually reduce the rake earned by poker sites.

'cause you don't even bother to read the recent discussions about this, I'm not going to bother retyping all this stuff:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=14061
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=14924


Is there any evidence that people are more likely to play because they suffer a bad beat. Do you play more because you suffer a cooler?
OMg you want me to believe your BS ...sorry wont happen i have & most here have there own opinions...anybody could write something down & throw some numbers at it to make it look good!
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02-14-2011 , 11:43 PM
It's very plain to see over a period of time that you are on the "Not allowed to win" list. You can go months card dead. Then when you make the perfect play with the right starting hand the donk who can't fold just keeps hitting the miracle on the river. It's so obvious that there is a third party involved and making sure you can't win. It's a joke
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02-14-2011 , 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
OK milk do you actually see these hands live like u do here...dont give me that you play more hands on the net BS ....i play alot live! You just dont see these hands like u do here & yes i have about 200 of these over the edge action hands saved
Well I've only played a little live, maybe 20k hands or so (total guess). In that time I've seen two royals though and plenty of coolers. I had 64s and flopped 664 against someone's 44 last time I played which was pretty awesome I was also sat next to someone who just won a bad beat jackpot in another casino so that must have been quads over quads at leat. This doesn't mean much though of course.

I was just wondering, if these action hands are spread out, isn't that just normal?
Like if you have 200 hands like that in a 1000 hand sample then that definately seems off, certainly worth looking into at least, but if it's over like 20000 hands it's less significant.
Obviously the sites can't rig it so every hand is like that, but how much more often do you think it happens online? 1 every 10k hands? 1 every 2k hands?

Also why is saying you play more hands online bs? I've played 15k hands this week which would take me a long time live. I don't get why that is bs.
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02-14-2011 , 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
OMg you want me to believe your BS ...sorry wont happen i have & most here have there own opinions...anybody could write something down & throw some numbers at it to make it look good!
I don't think you've made any of your opinions look good. Failure to grasp something as simple as:

http://www.wikihow.com/Use-There,-Their-and-They're

doesn't help your credibility.

Surely there are exceptions but I'd be willing to bet there's a strong correlation between the credibility of posters who can handle something as simple as this and those who can't.

In any case, we, the poker playing shills, thank you and your kind for your contributions to the health of the games.
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02-14-2011 , 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
OMg you want me to believe your BS ...sorry wont happen i have & most here have there own opinions...anybody could write something down & throw some numbers at it to make it look good!
What are you talking about? There isn't any sophisticated maths in it! It's just common sense when you actually think about the issues.
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