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Originally Posted by Moe Danglez
I haven't read any of this thread so forgive me if this was covered, which I assume it was; but why would a site that makes millions of $ in rake regardless of who wins want to rig it so that certain players win/lose? I usually find its the bad/mediocre players that claim the sites to be rigged in a desperate way to make an excuse for them not being able to win
That's pretty much the size of it. The theory for rigging goes like this: "the cards come out better for the worse players so that they will keep playing and the regs will keep depositing anyway, because they made the '+ev play' and they would start winning eventually, but they don't." Two crucial issues are a lot of poker has nothing to do with the cards and that a reg getting less than true odds would easily be found out.
There is an "equalization" theory which finds some way it could be rigged without somehow being found out mathematically. If you're good, then you would get bad cards against donks and good cards against other regs, so it would equal out. But this makes no sense because what about the other regs then? Those other regs would get bad cards against both you and donks, and it would be found out.
There may be some other variety of that theory where the riggieness depends on pot size. That's actually mathematically possible, unlike the other equalization theory, but it could be found out as well. Just filter for certain pot sizes. Aaa will lose to 22 20% of the time and under this theory, all 20% would go to the do I raising when they have more money in the pot. It still makes little sense, but whatever.