Hey Mods someone please remove that silly poll?

If there is gonna be a poll it should be basic;

Is Online Poker Rigged?

Yes or No

And that's the number one reason why it's in sites' interests NOT to rig. Play it fairly and the rake will keep on rolling in, and you don't have to do a thing. If it's perceived as fair then people will keep coming back.

Lets face it guys - we all know that the better players will take the lesser players money all day and eventually even an Idiot will stop throwing away good money so it is in the sites interest to level the playing field and keep as many players as possible on the site. I would not doubt if Bingostars has a system built right into that sophisticated software. I have seen many an Idiot who could do no wrong whereas I make one stupid play and I am done. In fact I make good plays and I am done.

... the less intelligent of the lesser players will start to cast around for someone to blame rather than take responsibility for their own poor play.

At that point they will come and whine on here about how the sites are: 'obviously rigged'.

In fact it is they who are: 'obviously ******ed'.

you probably had to look ******ed up in the dictionary. In fact I make money on that garbage site. Not much but I still cash out every couple of months.

oooh burrrrrrn

The wit of these rigtards is quite breathtaking, really.

Honestly who the **** raises UTG with QQQK and calls a reraise in Hi-Low, when it is obvious that I have AA**.

I'd say this guy was an idiot, but he had over 4 buyins and he clearly wasn't throwing his money away.

He is either a house player, somehow who cracked the code, or he had colluders at the table and knew his flush draw was very live.

I was up fairly large on the day, but along comes the FTP hour of hell, topped off by this suspicious clown hitting his 8% / 92% nonsensical BS and just like that I'm back down for the day.

Just about every time someone reraises in O8 they have AA**.
And this guy calls UTG with QQQK and hits a flush on the turn?
How can I take FTP seriously when plays that are beyond awful constantly get rewarded.

I have seen tons of poor, loose, aggressive, and wild, and terrible players.
Even they have some idea that QQQK should be mucked if not instantly, then definitely after the reraise when it's obvious I have AA**.

Cliffnotes : Either FTP is rigged, or there are house players who will take your money, in the most unbelievable ways.

OK, so all FTP players should remove their stash and place in on Cereus?

Maybe you should be playing at a level where the players have an idea of what they are doing. You know hand ranges, math, players style, position, stack sizes, etc. Playing 5 cent 10 cent thats why. try 10 dollar 20 dollar

Because there definitely aren't people who literally do not know the rules of the game in O8.

http://www.notedpokerauthority.com/a...ine-poker.html

There's some decent articles on there.

The Triple Draw thing is whatever. I disagree with some of his points, but I don't care either way. I doubt I'd care even if I did play Triple Draw.

His first point in the second part #2 may be right, but I think he's dead wrong about it being able to be undetectable. He doesn't really go into this, either.

if you think its rigged then dont play.sites make their money from rake and reg fees.they have no interest and no need to rig any hand as they make millions each day.dear me we all suffer bad beats but its not rigged.on poker stars i have ak and raise,player reraises and i faltcall.flop aak.before i have a chance to do anything he moves in.i call.he shows qq.turn q river q.i say nh.he says ul.we both move on.why do losing players insist on things being fixed against them.its just funny.try playing 8 tables at once for 6 hours a day and watch the bad beats.its just poker.i play live 5 times a week too and they happen there too.its simply wrong to think theres anything else happening

The other day I lost an $850 pot to a river 5 outer all in on the turn. It was one of the largest pots I've lost in some time. Now I can scream and yell about it being rigged, or I can take a more logical approach and realize that I was simply unlucky.

Especially true considering that the guy who beat me has lost a documented $460,000 over the past year and 4 months. It happens, rigtards. You're never going to have a day of poker in your life where you play any reasonable volume of hands where you won't see a bad beat. Get used to it or quit poker.

not really

OK IM GONNA PUT THIS IN CAPS SO YOU UNDERSTAND:

YOU CALL YOURSELF LOGICAL BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE (KNOW, IYO) THAT ONLINE POKER IS NOT RIGGED, JUST LIKE I BELIEVE (KNOW) IT IS RIGGED. PLEASE SHOW ME YOUR EVIDENCE TO COUNTER THIS CLAIM? IM SICK OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND OTHERS ON HERE DEFENDING ONLINE POKER LEGITAMACY LIKE IT'S YOUR NEIGHBORS HOME BUSINESS. WHERE ARE YOU GUYS FROM, FAIRY LAND? THIS WORLD IS NOT PERFECT AND NEITHER ARE THE PEOPLE IN IT (ESPECIALLY THOSE CONNECTED WITH GAMBLING). YOU NEED TO LOOK OUTSIDE THE BOX AND STOP PUTTING YOUR EGO IN THE WAY OF YOUR THINKING (UNLESS YOU'RE REALLY THAT DUMB).
QPW, why name-call? We're here having a discussion. It seems to me most of the people on the side of online poker being rigged are alot more mature and logical than you. Why are you even here? Neither of us has concrete evidence supporting our claims (yet) so as much as you would like to believe you are right - you do not have any evidence !!!

STOP ASKING PEOPLE TO PROVE A NEGATIVE. THE LACK OF EVIDENCE SUPPORTS ONLINE POKER NOT BEING RIGGED. IF CONSPIRACY THEORISTS WANT TO TEST THEIR THEORIES AND PROVIDE EVIDENCE THEN PLEASE DO SO. OTHERWISE YOU'RE JUST COMING OFF AS PARANOID AND WASTING EVERYBODY'S TIME. I'M GLAD YOU SHOWED US THIS ALL CAPS THING IT'S SO MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE IN GETTING MY POINTS ACROSS.

IF YOU WANT EVIDENCE SUPPORTING NOT RIGGED GO BACK AND LOOK AT K13'S POST ABOUT ACES COMING TOO MUCH ON THE FLOP AND SPADEBIDDER'S STATISTICAL ANALYSIS PROVING HE WAS WRONG. IT'S ONE OF MANY EXAMPLES. PROVIDE YOUR SPECIFIC THEORIES ABOUT WHAT YOU THINK IS RIGGED AND SOMEBODY WILL PROBABLY TEST THEM AND PROVE THEM WRONG. UNTIL YOU PROVIDE YOUR SPECIFIC THEORIES WITH A HYPOTHESIS THAT CAN BE TESTED YOU'RE WASTING EVERYONE'S TIME.

once again you refer to this as a negative? online poker to begin with is the only thing negative here.

Test their theories? Once again, since you dont seem to understand - the average player does not have the resources to collect such data (especially involving the theory of "timing") to be considered concrete evidence. DO YOU REALLY THINK THESE POKER SITES ARE THIS DUMB? You do live in a fairy land, don't you...

It obviously didn't work for you next time i'll bold it all

Wasting everyone's time? Obviously if you did not care about the well-being of online poker and have some interest in its legitamacy you wouldn't be here.. You just wasted my time because im actually giving you the decency of responding to your half-ass post that has been covered like ten times in this thread.

It's very clear to me, Nfuego, why you say you don't believe online poker is rigged or act like you have no open-mindedness about the subject. I think you have some interest in it but you let your ego get in the way like this is a battle, man.

I guess the problem is you rigged posters need to get your theories straight. I mean some of you think aces come too often on the flop. Some of you think doomswitches happen at cashout (I could probably provide evidence in my own case that's not true). Some of you think crappy players win more often than they should. Individually an analysis can probably be done on each of these things to some extent. If you want me to look up a horrible player's results and analyze his all in hands to make sure his results are within an acceptable threshold, it could probably be done.

Why don't you guys take the time to do it since you seem to think this stuff is happening? There's publicly accessible data out there you know.

Online poker is a negative? What? Do you even have a clue what people are saying? You're asking people to prove that something does NOT exist. Do you not see the problem here?


Bullcrap. There are a lot of bright people on this forum with access to all kinds of data. If you want to generically throw the word "timing" at people and say that's how it's rigged, be more specific. Timing after a cashout? Waiting 5 seconds before calling all in so the dealer will give you better cards? I mean what the hell are you talking about? How do you think it's rigged? One thing at a time sir. Tell me how you think something is rigged, and then let's try and come up with some tests for it. Problem is you're mindlessly just spewing this garbage and you haven't even given yourself a CHANCE to see if anything is wrong with the deal. Pure speculation on your part. Find where you think something is wrong, and test it. Even if you're not getting concrete proof, you can gradually add to the evidence and work out the data to the point where you can get a general idea of whether or not you're within a reasonable range.


It's a battle over ignorance. To say I have no open-mindedness about the subject is completely false. But what I have absolutely no patience for is people coming in with unfounded theories while making no effort whatsoever to try to actually look at some data and test it. At least put in some friggin effort because without that there is no credibility whatsoever. When evidence gets presented and analyzed, this entire poker community responds. When morons come on spouting off after a bad beat pretty much convinced poker is rigged because of those bad beats, it sets us back every time. There's nothing that can be said to such a person.

If you recall a poster came online several days ago wanting to do his own analysis. He suspected the games might not be legit but was at least willing to take his database of hands and run some tests. Did you see me jump down his throat? Of course not. I did my best to help and encouraged others with more expertise to help him. Why? Because he was being reasonable and putting in some effort. Something most of the rigged followers fail to ever do.

Hell, K13 tells us his theories, they get PROVEN wrong, and yet he still refuses to acknowledge it and just comes right back on bitching about more bad beats. Just completely ignores concrete statistics. Now you tell me which side is being more reasonable.

Rigged

I thought Meares patented that idea. New account Stephen?