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View Poll Results: Is Online Poker Rigged?
Yes
3,502 34.89%
No
5,607 55.86%
Undecided
929 9.25%

11-27-2011 , 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Wiki
I disagree.

The fact that there are, seemingly, hundreds of people who rabidly believe that OLP is rigged and there are hundreds of millions of hand histories available and yet not one of the 'OLP is rigged' brigade have ever managed to show that it is is, in itself, pretty solid evidence that it almost certainly isn't.

Rather in the same way that no one has ever provided evidence that lead cannot float in water and yet we know id doesn't because with all the lead around and all the water around we know that if it did someone would have provided evidence that it did.
well do a * real test* done by * real scientists* Don't have someones shady uncle frankenstein doing the floating led experiment in a back office in diluted salt water where everything floats. Online poker is all about appearences. Not realities. Paying extra money to give the appearence oif something is far more profitiable in the end. Online poker is comparable to watching a taped David Blaine magic special. Its real isn't it? The network says its real. The producers say its real. They hired a few yahoos to go around and preach its real citing all the reasons why. Ya! Must be.. Must be
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11-27-2011 , 05:17 PM
I liked the part where you quoted and replied to yourself, and replied to the same post Wiki made twice, all within 6 minutes.
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11-27-2011 , 05:19 PM
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Originally Posted by JPFisher55
So shouldn't all the posters in this forum demand that all poker sites present audits of their hand histories performed by reputable third party auditors that show that all hands are dealt by a fair and random RNG?
Why would you trust a company you believe is cheating you in a manner you can't discover to not alter evidence given to an auditor?

All an audit does for a site is cost them however much the auditors charge, it's not going to change the minds of any riggies. Hundreds of scientists have confirmed the US moon landings, so there shouldn't be any morons who think it was fake, right?
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11-27-2011 , 05:19 PM
are people really that naive without financial obligations to believe companies that will lie and cheat federal banks and break federal LAW are honest and fair and not cheating us with an rng. LOL. How naive are people
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11-27-2011 , 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by SawyerAnthony
Pokerstars is rigged. For some. It's selectively rigged. **** running 20BI's under EV in 200 heads up sng tourneys. **** THAT. That will NEVER, EVER happen in real life.
Did you do the calculations yourself to illustrate that?
Did you use one of the available tools created by somebody else to check?
Or did you just make it up?


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Originally Posted by SawyerAnthony
Oh, and I will do EVERYTHING in my power to keep online poker illegal.
a) You have no power
b) You are almost certainly doing nothing
c) Online poker isn't illegal

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Originally Posted by hellojello
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE? lmfao. 99.9% of any casual player believes online poker is rigged. 99.9% of regulars believe it is. The fact that only 65% of the poll believe it is random in this thread with all the promoters, shills ect should tell you what the view is right there.
Are you lying again you lying liar?
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11-27-2011 , 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by hellojello
are people really that naive without financial obligations to believe companies that will lie and cheat federal banks and break federal LAW are honest and fair and not cheating us with an rng. LOL. How naive are people
Did Enron withhold electricity to their customers?
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11-27-2011 , 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by blatantlyrigged
That was easy. The lie is in bold. HH's mean nothing. This has been gone over before
But given you've come to your conclusions by observing handhistories, how do you then conclude they are irrelevant?

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. As far as confirmation bias, I noted what happened to me and to others equally. Didnt come in to the game originally thinking something might be wrong. Took into account EQUALLY my losing patterns AND winning patterns/hands. Of course, when I found out that what happened to me was happening to everyone else, (except shills/affiliates of course), it all came together.
But how can you be sure, if you did all of this in your head? How did you verify that you didn't miss anything? Or made a mistake?

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Originally Posted by otatop
I liked the part where you quoted and replied to yourself, and replied to the same post Wiki made twice, all within 6 minutes.
When you have multiple gimmicks it can be tricky to keep them all in line.
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11-27-2011 , 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by otatop
I imagine it has something to do with there being ~13 trillion possible deck permutations.

Flipping a coin only has two possible outcomes and you need a sample of 2,500 flips to be 68% sure, and 10,000 flips to be 95% sure the coin is fair.What's the basis of the number? I'm not arguing that 25,000 is wrong (although i believe it is), I'm just pointing out that you've given no reason for it to be right.

Based on what I posted above, 25,000 hands would probably be fine if there were only 20 possible decks and you only wanted to be around 68% sure your hands were fair.

If anything, a million hands is too few.Ignoring things evening out, the suggested rigs in this thread were spotted by people just playing a casual number of hands (I can't recall any of the riggies playing more than a few thousand hands a week, feel free to make corrections if I'm wrong). They would stick out like a sore thumb in a graph.

This forum is either frequented by idiot savants, or idiots just.
I think you are missing my point here is an example.If there was say 200 rigged hands out of a sample of 10,000 hands vs there is 200 rigged hands out of 10,000,000 hands,the % would be nil on the later & would be written off as variance.Anyways Im not trying to start crap just wondering what your thoughts are on this
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11-27-2011 , 06:05 PM
Pretty sure that the sample size needed depends entirely on the question being asked. It varies depending on what you are measuring. (ie: you could prove rigging pretty conclusively in 20 hands if it were 20 AA in a row) It can be calculated by those who know how.
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11-27-2011 , 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by hellojello
well do a * real test* done by * real scientists* Don't have someones shady uncle frankenstein doing the floating led experiment in a back office in diluted salt water where everything floats. Online poker is all about appearences. Not realities. Paying extra money to give the appearence oif something is far more profitiable in the end. Online poker is comparable to watching a taped David Blaine magic special. Its real isn't it? The network says its real. The producers say its real. They hired a few yahoos to go around and preach its real citing all the reasons why. Ya! Must be.. Must be
It's always fun to stop by from time to time and see who the latest genius is ITT.
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11-27-2011 , 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by hellojello
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE? lmfao. 99.9% of any casual player believes online poker is rigged. 99.9% of regulars believe it is. The fact that only 65% of the poll believe it is random in this thread with all the promoters, shills ect should tell you what the view is right there.
It is always fun when people make up numbers without any way to back them up, well played. Still didn't get any fresh air, huh?
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11-27-2011 , 07:01 PM
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Originally Posted by joker15801
I think you are missing my point here is an example.If there was say 200 rigged hands out of a sample of 10,000 hands vs there is 200 rigged hands out of 10,000,000 hands,the % would be nil on the later & would be written off as variance.Anyways Im not trying to start crap just wondering what your thoughts are on this
200 out of 10,000,000 would be written off as variance because it wouldn't have any real effect either way on the hands.

As much as hellojello loves to point out that the sites will "fraud" governments to make money, rigging .002% of the hands you deal isn't going to make you more money.

Riggies all claim to see certain patterns that make rigging "obvious" to the naked eye, but the amount of hands that would need to be rigged for this to be true would be so astronomical that you'd only need a few thousand hands to prove it, like with potripper.
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11-27-2011 , 07:30 PM
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Originally Posted by Bingo_Boy
Did you do the calculations yourself to illustrate that?
Did you use one of the available tools created by somebody else to check?
Or did you just make it up?




a) You have no power
b) You are almost certainly doing nothing
c) Online poker isn't illegal



Are you lying again you lying liar?
no but when you say online pokeris not illegal you are. Tell that to someone in America. Liar. They frauded banks? Is that a lie?
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11-27-2011 , 07:35 PM
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Originally Posted by 39suited
It is always fun when people make up numbers without any way to back them up, well played. Still didn't get any fresh air, huh?
How about ONLY 60% of people polling this thread think online is random when its flooded with shills and promoters. Am I making up the fact these sites frauded banks and money laundered? It's ok though they paid out to customers with money from a bogus rng. LOL. Nothing like someone reaching in to my pocket to take my wallet and pay me with my own money
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11-27-2011 , 07:36 PM
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Originally Posted by hellojello
no but when you say online pokeris not illegal you are. Tell that to someone in America. Liar. They frauded banks? Is that a lie?
Fraud isn't a verb, dummy.
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11-27-2011 , 07:38 PM
how about money laundering?
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11-27-2011 , 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by blatantlyrigged
Uh,oh, the p.s. employees are really getting testy!
The truth can REALLY be a bitch sometimes.
how does that even make sense?
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11-27-2011 , 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Easyonkemp
You should be critical towards the companies instead of being critical towards those who are critical towards the companies.
In several other threads I have been critical towards the companies. I've only ever played for money on Stars and 888, so I've been most critical of those. I think Stars' efforts to get round the UEIGA was unethical and deeply troubling to me as a customer. I think 888 charging fees for "dormant" accounts is disgusting. And yet the rigtards think I'm a shill for one of, or both, of those companies!
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Originally Posted by Easyonkemp
So you think the deal is fair, so what? Why would you want to tell that to those who dont? You can only make things worse for yourself and other players.
I want new players who read the thread to realise that only the paranoid and delusional believe the games are rigged. I want people to exercise some critical thinking, instead of believing a load of made up bull*****. I want recreational players to trust in the RNGs, because I love the game of poker and I want as many people to play it as possible.
Poker gets a bad press as it is. The last thing poker needs is a bunch of losing players telling newbies that the game is rigged. If idiots like BR and HJ are going to post their ludicrous theories, then someone has to point out how wrong they are.
I can't be bothered to keep doing it. Hopefully new readers will use their brains and be able to sort the fact from the fiction. It shouldn't be hard. Evidence of BR and Jello's idiocy is on every page of the thread for the last 8 months.
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11-27-2011 , 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by SawyerAnthony
Pokerstars is rigged. For some. It's selectively rigged. **** running 20BI's under EV in 200 heads up sng tourneys. **** THAT. That will NEVER, EVER happen in real life.
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Originally Posted by SawyerAnthony
Oh, and I will do EVERYTHING in my power to keep online poker illegal.
1. SELECTIVELY RIGGED. Yes, that is the key. The deal is manipulated depending on your individual situation. (too much profit, cash out, etc.) You are tracked by your IP address and manipulated with additional software.
Sarcastic or gimmick makes no difference here. The point of selective rigging is correct.
2. GOOD. Keep up the good fight.
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11-27-2011 , 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by hellojello
well do a * real test* done by * real scientists* Don't have someones shady uncle frankenstein doing the floating led experiment in a back office in diluted salt water where everything floats. Online poker is all about appearences. Not realities. Paying extra money to give the appearence oif something is far more profitiable in the end. Online poker is comparable to watching a taped David Blaine magic special. Its real isn't it? The network says its real. The producers say its real. They hired a few yahoos to go around and preach its real citing all the reasons why. Ya! Must be.. Must be

+1000000
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11-27-2011 , 08:20 PM
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Originally Posted by hellojello
are people really that naive without financial obligations to believe companies that will lie and cheat federal banks and break federal LAW are honest and fair and not cheating us with an rng. LOL. How naive are people
Amazing isnt it.
Shills/affiliates, etc. are not in that category though. They already know how corrupt OLP is. Theyre here to do a job. Dupe newbies into believing it is fair, even though it obviously is not.
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11-27-2011 , 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by SawyerAnthony
Oh, and I will do EVERYTHING in my power to keep online poker illegal.
I wonder what proportion of 2+2 members would support you in this cause.

Ban this troll, imo.
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11-27-2011 , 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Bingo_Boy
Online poker isn't illegal

Its only been illegal for U.S. players since 2006.
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11-27-2011 , 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Monteroy
(including the insane every Brit gets Supernova promo)
Not bothered about the rest of the thread but what's this? Is it still going now or what?
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11-27-2011 , 08:24 PM
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Originally Posted by hellojello
How about ONLY 60% of people polling this thread think online is random when its flooded with shills and promoters.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in994766.shtml

I didn't know polls were the deciding factor when deciding the validity of a claim.

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Am I making up the fact these sites frauded banks and money laundered?
Pretty sure that it has to disguise illegal activity for something to be money laundering. Not a lawyer, so don't take my word for it.

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It's ok though they paid out to customers with money from a bogus rng.
It wouldn't be if that were the actual case.

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LOL. Nothing like someone reaching in to my pocket to take my wallet and pay me with my own money
Is this a reference to Full Tilt? I agree, but that doesn't prove a rigged rng. It proves mostly incompetency by those who were running the company.
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