You are my new favourite. I expect good things from you, please don't let me down.

It isn't going to stop the discussion, but I have about 1 Billion hands which I'm in the process of analyzing. I've been working on the code part-time for a while but I'm close to having some material ready to publish.

So the new theory is that a billion dollar company is rigging the 10 cent no-limit games?

C- level.

They fill in on tournaments when there isn't enough players. Then they work together to get you out...it's that simple. It happened to me yesterday and when i asked in chat if they were employees the chat was immediately turned off.

So i sat out and just watched, they never played a single hand, they checked and folded hand after hand and even when the blinds went up to $200. When one was low on chips he would go all in with a 3-7 or some stupid hand and win keeping him in the game as the blinds went up.

When i did go back in they didn't change there behavior at all. Then out of no where with 7 players left i somehow beat out the other 7 players and won the tournament??? i wasn't even in a hand...

You don't have to believe me, it's you're money but you've been warned.


I want to hear a pokerstars rep deny this, or at least an excuse to what happened.

So which site should I play on where I won't run into this problem? Since you've been investigating this phenomenon, I assume you saved all their screen names and in the next few hours, you'll share those with us.

Hi,

I can confim that PokerStars employees are not permitted to play for real money on our site.

We address this on our website:
If you would like your specific situation investigated, please email support@pokerstars.com so that a staff member can review the issue for you.

I'm still pretty sure you're a level (if you don't know what that means then you're not one). But ok, let's take you seriously for a momment. Despite the fact that your post is full of holes (ie: you ask in chat is anyone here a bot, then later you don't ask the same question - so as not to tip anyone off).

Ok, why don't you post the handhistories for these tournaments so people can see if there is any legitimacy to your accusations. If you don't have them you can request them from Pokerstars.

If they rigg to increase the rake and the company profit. Yep a million NL 10 games are better than one NL 400 table.

1. At higher stakes the Rake is capped
2. At low stakes the chance is less that someone serious analyse the games

I dont know which levels pay the most Rake, but i guess 95% is NL 200 and lower. Maybee 60% NL 50 and lower.

The point of this thread is to investigate the shady everyday occurrences at UB/AP and ultimately have them removed from the online poker world if they are in fact still cheating players. Since we dont have access to their operations, our only weapon is to band together and try to expose their inter workings by posting all the strange or shady occurrences that will ultimately paint a bigger picture of whats going on.

Things to look out for

-Players playing as if they know whats coming or as if they know what the other players have(obv beyond normal reading capabilities)

-Countless Jackpot winners with suspect playing history
(majority of their sessions under 10 hands)
(no session history at all)
(multiple winners)

-Anything else that seems out of the norm

UB/AP was already caught once and it took people like us to uncover it or they might never had been caught. From my three year experience playing at all the major sites, I undoubtedly see the most amount of shady unexplained occurrences at UB/AP and it's my personal opinion that they are once again cheating and may never had stopped. This cant be tolerated or overlooked. Its of the utmost importance to weed out the bad apples to preserve the integrity and reputation of our game so that it can continue to expand and become accepted globally.

I hope everyone will take this seriously and join in an effort to fight back against people who feel they can take advantage of us. This is something that goes on too much in this world and although we may not be able to fix everything, this is our chance to fix our little part.

Post everything you see that is out of the norm and please try to stay away from standard bad beats...I think most should understand the difference between the two...TY

has there been more suspect instances at UB/AP?? links?

What?

I didnt realise the standard in 10c SNGs had improved so much

the incentive of rigging the 10cent games probably doesn't involve the idea of making alot of money off them obviously.
the incentive is to attract players and keep them depositing. for example, if a new player deposits and begins playing 10cent games and starts winning consistently not only will he be entertained but he will probably move up stakes (eventually to go broke ofcourse, redeposit, and hop right back into those higher stakes to retain losses)

These 2 posts were responses to a post I made about the poor play at FTP recently.

"I do agree that something is wrong with fulltilt...i wont complain about the bad players getting lucky there even though i do agree they do...my reason for thinking something is up with fulltilt is the fact that there is 10 times as many complaining post about fulltilt than any other site....that alone is pretty strange to me...u would think that pokerstars having more players would get more complaints but it seems all people complain about is fulltilt."

"Interesting observations. I can relate as I'm a long term winner on Stars and a serial contributor to the FT community. I've just chalked it up to two years of variance or a tilt induced mental barrier due to the crappy interface and neverending disconnection issues. I agree the play is worse at FT, but I have yet to exploit it. The smart thing to do would be to focus primarily on Stars, but I'm irritatingly stubborn..."

My cousin who is a software designer is developing a program thats gonna attempt to check the integrity of the RNG. Kinda like the "luck factor" software that was developed. Ive always had a suspicion that the cards were handicapped to level out play. A Poker sites bottom line is determined by the amount of rake they take in so it would make sense for a company that was willing to cheat to take measures to maximize the amount of play. In a regular setting, bad players get eaten up quickly especially in todays age where the standards of a good player has dramatically increased. One way to keep new players around would be to tilt the scales to heighten their luck factor and in turn lower it for better experienced players. This leveling of the playing field would undoubtedly increase traffic keeping weaker players in play. Whether they are doing it Im not sure. The goal is to theorize and investigate. Im anxious to see what my mad genius cousin is gonna come up with.

So you have statistics on this? Done the research? Oh, you haven't? Shocking. You're a muppet.

[ ] interesting observations
[ ] facts
[x] rigtard

Can you not read Muppet?
I was not the author of either of those quotes.
Both of those were responses by different members of 2+2, agreeing with me that something may be wrong with FTP right now.
How many people must agree that something might be wrong before you acknowledge that fact.

A single one with actual verifiable evidence would suffice.

Lots think Lizard People are in charge of everything, that does not make it a fact just because lots believe this. That is until the Lizard People suggest I say different.

Heck, even this latest guy who is talking about problems in a measly 2 SNGs hasn't produced the handhistories!

What are you asking to be acknowledged as fact? That some people agree with you? I don't even need to see evidence to acknowledge that some people will agree with you. So what?

Does anyone have any information about suspicious activities at Hollywood Poker? I have heard some rumours about cheating at the site!

Rumours, you say!


How ribald!

Suk my dik

Is this a suggestion about the forums and the software that implements them?

I was gonna say this should probably be in the Zoo, but after his 2nd post, it might just be going tio the trash bin...


edit: in after move to the zoo

So hiring staff members to win the 10 cent games will make the other players win consistently and deposit more? Stephenmeares logic at its finest.