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Originally Posted by TPTK27
Just the entire flow of the games, massive hands and coolers just more than what I personally think is possible with a random deal.
Massive hands with coolers actually reduce site rake.
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As you've pointed out, I don't have the statistical proof, but as I said in my first post, that is never possible to achieve unless you have hole card info.
This is wrong, you have your own hole card info.
If other players are getting certain cards more than they should (because of some nefarious arrangement) then you
must get those cards less often.
If you're able to notice this from simple human observation and memory, the statistical consequences would be very obvious.
Here's a simple demonstration of this:
1) How many coolers and massive hands do you see every 100 hands?
2) How many coolers and massive hands should you see every 100 hands?
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That said, I'm a strong believer in human instincts- our experiences tell us a lot, I have actually have a point to make regarding the integrity of poker deals.
Human instincts are terrible at randomness, and your belief that instinct is useful here is further evidence of your fundamental misunderstanding of both randomness and human instincts.
In short, our brains are hard wired to identify patterns quickly, and rely upon those judgements. If our forebears saw a lion running quickly towards us, they needed to very quickly identify it as a threat, plot a likely path of the lion, and get out of the way... and if they didn't identify this pattern, they'd die pretty quickly. Consequently, the only people alive today are the descendants of people who were good at identifying patterns.
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I know a lot of people won't have the patience to see this but it is based on customer reviews and how these are reliable-
Whether or not something is popular has no relationship to whether or not it is true.
The fact that there are a lot of people who believe in God is not evidence that there is (or is not) a god. It is simply evidence that a lot of people feel that way.
If most people thought that 1+1 = 3, that wouldn't make it correct. It would just make a lot of people wrong in their belief.
When discussing objective facts (such as whether or not something is genuinely random) popularity and opinion polls are useless.
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Ebay, we make purchaes, sales based on customer reviews/ratings. It is highly effective. If you go into Pokerscout.com and look at the reviews of 888.com, Party Poker and the I-Poker network, you will see that the latter's games are rigged. There is no proof, but there is undenaibale collective experiences which have real implications.
There used to be a review on there that falsely claimed to be written by me on the issue of shuffling at PokerStars. It was a lie. Some people lie. Some people are wrong. Both of those situations have no bearing on the objective fact of this issue.