Originally Posted by peetar69
This thread has run its course and should drift to the back. It was more fun when one could start a new "riigged" thread when things are gloom.
The same 5 or 6 site deffenders bash the posters (some site deffenders paid by sites... some probably not), some "rigtards", some "rigologists", whatever.
I think a lot of people don't realize how crooked everything that involves humans and money can be. I once cut a deal with a developer for 150K but the Town board was totally aginst it. I took a huge beating by the board at a meeting. The deal was good for the developer, (he had investers), I got it continued.
Sixty days later, The developer,investers and myself had coffee with the Mayor in his office while waiting for the next meeting to start. The very same board members that bashed me 2 months earlier, would had givin me a hand job as they approved the variance. I didn't pay anyone anything, but I highly, highly, highly suspect the mayor was paid off.
Your bank, credit card company, morgage broker, F&I guy at car dealership, plummer, electritian, doctor, lawyer, auto shop, cell phone Co., Cable Co., local, state , and federal governments will try to take you for an extra buck............hell, sometimes the paperboy throws the advertisments (he was paid to put in your morrning paper), in the creek by his moms house.
The dealer cuts his coke (regardless how much HIS dealer cut it before), 1/2 OZ of grass is a gram short from the other guy, NBA ref gets in trouble W/ bookie (it comes to light after weird call), Horse races are fixed daily ( mostly single trainer juices a horse with a race in him, sometimes colusion), I could go on N on.
But you are a ****** not to think online pokersites are the most honest people in the world. Those guys who own the sites... ummm.... well, no need to know who they are, they must be straight arrrows.
Anyone ever see the movie casino? "The dealer watches the player, the floorman watches the dealer, the pit boss watches the 3 of them, and the eye in the sky watches everybody". That was in the old days when ownership could just go kill a thief.
Now-a-days, corprate owners can't put the fear of death in the potential crook, but there is also 24/7 gaming commision, ON SITE, at my local casino's. Even with all the layers of protection at the large casino's, a dealer was busted this year palming 1K chips out of the Bobby's Room game at the B. Who watches the server farms?
It is perfectly reasonable for a person that makes his living from online poker promoting/ deffending the integrity of the games. It is also perfectly reasonable for anyone to question the integrity of the games.
The sites have the resources to open things up to the public, and they choose not to do so. This is a BIG RED FLAG to anyone that has lived life for awhile.
Space seems to be the only reg in this thread who wants to back his position with stats. The others are worthless to the positions they wish to deffend. The others tend to bash the bad players (so very bad), or ignore the reasonable. The problem with Space is that the stats he wants to run, are the stats I would use as a constant if I had a site and wanted to maximize. I have an outline in my head on how to cheat, and (in this outline), I would use the stats by Space to "prove" I'm on the up & up.
Joshem does not bash people but is a paid rep. Linking RNG code does not instill confidence to the thoughtful.