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Originally Posted by feldzpar
Personal experience
Talking amongst friends who play
Reading other blogs who suspect
Do a Google search of online poker being rigged and you will get about 700 pages to choose from. Many people have had unrealistic beats happen over and over and over.
If you own a store and candy bars keep end up missing but you cant seem to catch the thief does that mean someone isnt stealing them?
If you get cheated in a live ring game cause of collusion by other players who know whats going on and share holdings info, does that mean it didnt happen if you cant prove it.
Please dont be stupid and jump on the idiot wagon claiming that "there is no way its rigged I win all the time"...to this I say wait and see what happens, wait a few years, in the long run there is no way to beat online, online WILL beat you.
Pokerstars is rich and sneeky, smart and cunning, they will not allow themselves to be outright caught. But, read others opinions, notice patterns, compare to any live poker game you have played in and then considering their motivations for greed and lack of enforcement and you have yourself an obvious conclusion.
Ok, let's take them one by one:
1. Personal experience: do you have a database, poker tracker, etc, that shows results grossly outside of expectation? Or are you basing this just on memory?
2. Friends: do your friends have any data to back these allegations up?
3. bloggers: do they have any actual evidence other than bad beat stories?
4. The 700 others: have they done any analysis to show they are getting more bad beats than they should? Do they even know how often these should happen?
The fact is: if the RNG is rigged then, as discussed in this thread, it should be provable. If its not provable then how effective could it be in boosting the companies bottom line?