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Originally Posted by mchine
You people amaze me. It is pretty obvious that the RNGs are not rigged on most sites. People take bad beats and claim rigging. The point is that it does not matter if you lose money to a rigged site or to collusion or to another form of cheating. You still lose money through being cheated. In my opinion, it is not smart to play in games that are easy to cheat. You are free to disagree.
I have a healthy reward for any riggie that can prove the RnG is rigged at a significant site, and to date it is not surprisingly unclaimed, and the fact that actual math guys who look at databases have yet to find anything is pretty solid evidence as well on whether the RnGs are rigged or not.
That being said - paranoid people are gonna paranoid and for this thread that means that they see patterns that they cannot detect through statistical analysis, and often times they see patterns that are opposite of the patterns that other riggies believe in, so they will always have a fear of the game being rigged, whether that is based on common sense or not.
You share their paranoia, but it is just in a different form. You believe that cheating is rampant everywhere, and, like a riggie, yours is a simple, binary world. I am a bit surprised that you have not asked anyone to prove that cheating is not taking place all the time...
Of course some people will cheat at times, but many times that behavior is detected from other players or the sites. When I played the Omaha DoNs it was very easy to spot a team of 2 relatively new players that were trying to work together (funny thing was they generally did themselves little good). I, and other regs at the time reported them when we saw them and generally when I checked a few days later their accounts could not receive real money transfers (meaning they had been suspended).
Some people thought all the regs were colluding as well, but you try to collude with a couple other people while on 16 or more tables. Any advantage had with active collusion (ignoring the inherent risks) would make less than just opening more tables with a ROI of 15%+
In the end people can choose to play on rooms they are comfortable with, or if they fear collusion and bots and cheaters everywhere they can opt to play live poker where nobody uses signals or cheats
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Is there cheating? Of course. Is there cheating to the complete magnitude you believe in? Of course not. Will a binary person like you accept that? Of course not. Is this the right thread for these topics? Of course not, but you do not seem to be able to figure the internet out too well.
All the best.