Wow, another "ZOMG online pokerz is rigged! sheeple!" with no facts, no analysis and inconsistent Shift key use. Congratulations on being the 50,000th ****** to make this thread, OP.

Cliff's: You're a loser and a bad player. The site doesn't have to be rigged to make money off of you.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/53...=#post10161383

No discipline. The sites aren't rigged; you're just a degenerate gambler. You play at limits that, considering your bankroll, would bust ANYONE. You're irresponsible with your money like... a degenerate gambler. Why not give your bankroll a chance to run good by playing at proper limits?

he wants to play poker, not have another 9-5.

OP, you just have to have the guts to go for it. If you are ready for the big games and all the micro donks keep sucking out on you... i say go for it.

gl

first of all i never said i was good at poker and that has nothing to do with what i asked in the OP.

and as far as no facts open your ****ing eyes two major sites got popped with being rigged what else could you ask for ******. if two major sites rigged what makes you think pokerstars or fulltilt doesn't?

Superuser != rigged

The issue with AP/UB was superusers accounts, not rigged software.

OP what exactly do you mean when you use the term "rigged"? You seem to be arbitrarily applying it to situations that don't warrant it. When the term "rigged" is thrown around in this forum 99% of the time it's used in reference to manipulating a site's RNG so that particular players come out losers/winners more than they're supposed to. The scandals at Absolute and UB surround "superuser" accounts that gave certain accounts the ability to see other player's hole cards.

So when you say Pokerstars is the most rigged site online what do you mean exactly?

This thread made my day. Donkey Flops's post was soooo lol. Thank you 2+2

I'm somewhat amazed that registration date doesn't indicate weather a person believes in rigged'ness or not.

STFU & RELOAD!

The riggedologist commandments thus far

Commandment 1: Thy shall ask others to prove it false

Commandment 2: Thy shall state an opinion and declare it a fact

Commandment 3: Thy shall hurl personal attacks

Commandment 4: Thy shall assume

Commandment 5: Thy hath no time to test thy theories


Good job OP at following the guidelines of your faith, ye shall be rewarded in the poker afterlife.

theres that and there was another one they were "investigating" i was reading about ultimate bet. they were fined 500,000 and investigating something about them altering the gameplay outcome. ill try and look for it.

Please look hard and be sure not to return until you have it!

Juk

You should read what I wrote again b/c it doesn't sound like you're going to answer what I asked. I'm asking what you mean when you say pokerstars is rigged. In what way is it rigged?

Dear OP,

Many of us, including myself, have been given, for whatever reason, a "Golden Account". This makes us more lucky than you at each site that we play, and allows us to win on a consistent basis. It has nothing to do with the fact that we are better at poker than you.

Many players, like yourself, are just way too good at poker to possibly lose. That is the proof that poker is rigged. Who needs fancy-schmancy mathematics or other actual evidence? The fact that you can't win is proof enough for anyone willing to look closely.

God that's gotta be so dis-heartening to the "riggedtologist's" to have their precious threads merged into this black hole of a thread.

BING BAM

Way to not answer my question which was designed to show you how ridiculously inconsistent you're being.

because your quesiton is ****ing pointless. what do i think rigged means? that they change the outcome of the hand in a favorable way.

for example the tournaments and sit and gos. once they get your money and the rake from your buyin they want you out asap so you can play another game and they get more money. why would they want a ****load of people playing in a tourney all day when they can knock out **** loads of people right away in hopes they join another tourney etc etc.

I guess play cash games then?

It isn't ****ing pointless because you haven't provided any evidence to suggest that kind of rigging is happening anywhere.

That is not one of their belief's commandments, so why expect it?

You should add one or two for the newest recruit. Thy shall not read the thread first. Thy shall equate player cheating with deal rigging. Thy shall make statements about the only scandal ever in online poker without knowing any of the facts.

Those three seem to come up over and over.

I don't think you can call it the only scandal if you count all the small sites that steal people's money by not letting them cash out.

I think its comical how the Regs on this board dismiss the AP/UB scandal as isolated, and that it really does not matter because of their low playerbases.

Are we forgetting that UB was perhaps the 2ND online poker site and used to have 90 percent of the players?

That entire situation pretty much dismissed all of the reasons you guys cited that online poker was legit.

A.) Too much to risk. - DISPROVED.
B.) Impossible to manipulate the shuffle or have users who have access to hole cards. - DISPROVED

I wonder what you tools are going to say once PokerStars criminal activity is finally exposed.

Keep daring us to come up with evidence. You don't think certain individuals are doing just that? These things take time. FBI investigations have known to last for 5+ years in order to gather the neccessary evidence.

They were never shown to manipulate the shuffle, nor has any site ever. That's pretty much the accepted definition of rigging.

There are cheaters on every poker site, they just don't usually have access to hole cards. And sites catch and ban some cheaters regularly. There are also still cheaters who have access to some players' hole cards (but not everyone's) because they create virus/trojan software that people download unknowingly, and it transmits your screen to them and tells them when you are playing. That has nothing to do with any poker site, it's just cheaters and gullible computer users. Compromised computers are involved in all sorts of crime, from credit card number theft to full identify theft, to password stealing, etc. As an aside, I have some business knowledge of preventing that type of crime, and you can currently go to certain web sites and buy millions of valid credit card numbers for pennies each, that were stolen by software that people downloaded to their computers. There are currently bot-nets multi-million-users in size.

The security hole at UB that allowed the cheaters to see everyone's hole cards did not give them knowledge of the cards yet to come, and it didn't manipulate the deal. It was cheating, plain and simple, and UB/AB should have suffered more than they did. But it was not a systemic plan for the company to profit off it's customers, it was cheaters making money for themselves. And they played at stakes you will probably never play, so it didn't affect most players (other than the principle and integrity of the site, and I'd never play there).

One case does not necessarily affect the other. This would be akin to saying something like, "Dahmer was a murderer, so what makes you think all human beings aren't murderers?"

Also, if you are going to accuse any specific site of any specific type of cheating, then you have to define the accusation. For example, one of the common allegations in this thread is a "cash out" curse, wherein newbies are allowed to win until they cash out. This accusation has nothing at all in common with what really happened at UB.