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View Poll Results: Is Online Poker Rigged?
Yes
3,502 34.89%
No
5,607 55.86%
Undecided
929 9.25%

12-08-2009 , 01:32 AM
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Originally Posted by gtpitch
I voted yes

Discuss
I vote yes that the girl in your picture is rigged. But the rigging is pretty spectacular, but probably not provable without random and thorough inspections...
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12-08-2009 , 02:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Arouet
Bobo, please tell us that Buckethead's current ban is a permaban!
Looks like he got a couple days for trolling.
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12-08-2009 , 02:38 AM
After a horrible run everyone must have some thoughts about it being rigged.

Like I am feeling now
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12-08-2009 , 02:44 AM
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Originally Posted by heavyarcher
After a horrible run everyone must have some thoughts about it being rigged.

Like I am feeling now
QFT
I now an official Rig-tard for the time being. When I come off my down swing I will let everyone know that I have jumped back on the good side of the fence.
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12-08-2009 , 05:08 AM
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Originally Posted by absolutefish
40% of people on here think online sites are rigged??

Wtf??
Where do you suppose the rest of us get our winnings from?
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12-08-2009 , 05:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Got Nutz?
Who was Stephen Smears gimmic?
I think he had considerably more than one.
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12-08-2009 , 11:04 AM
I just wrapped my computer w/ tin foil...will this help?
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12-08-2009 , 11:10 AM
The **** isn't rigged. It's just flop chasers and fish altogether. If you have aces, you are pretty good as far as one pair goes, but, let's see, we have two pair(many combinations possible), 3 of a kind(also very possible), str8(which many people chase and will eventually catch), flush, full house, blah, blah, blahblahblahblahblah.

So you've played for an hour or two, been knocking fish out here and there. You've noticed how many players are at least playing to the flop. You catch top pair ace kicker(this is the millionth time this tourney) and you are big stack. In the end, the other guy ends up taking a hefty portion of your chips and you go down hill and finish just itm and you sit back and say,"This sht must be rigged." Once someone loses a hand that they should have won, they will normally start playing bad.

Forget the pocket rockets and such. They can lose to anything above a pair. They aren't invincible. Now if you are %90 to win a hand and all someone needs is one card, it's not very uncommon for that person to catch that card. So quit complaining and go out there and give me your money!
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12-08-2009 , 11:47 AM
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The **** isn't rigged. It's just flop chasers and fish altogether. If you have aces, you are pretty good as far as one pair goes, but, let's see, we have two pair(many combinations possible), 3 of a kind(also very possible), str8(which many people chase and will eventually catch), flush, full house, blah, blah, blahblahblahblahblah.

So you've played for an hour or two, been knocking fish out here and there. You've noticed how many players are at least playing to the flop. You catch top pair ace kicker(this is the millionth time this tourney) and you are big stack. In the end, the other guy ends up taking a hefty portion of your chips and you go down hill and finish just itm and you sit back and say,"This sht must be rigged." Once someone loses a hand that they should have won, they will normally start playing bad.

Forget the pocket rockets and such. They can lose to anything above a pair. They aren't invincible. [B]Now if you are %90 to win a hand and all someone needs is one card, it's not very uncommon for that person to catch that card. So quit complaining and go out there and give me your money.
Finally a math/poker prodigy has arrived...

I see...Thank you for creating an account just to show us how stupid you are....
So if I'm a 90% favorite to win a hand, it's "not very uncommon for that person to catch that card," TEN percent of the time? 10 times out of 100? What is your definition of "uncommon?" How does uncommon relate to you?

Before I continue, I don't want to be rude to less fortunate posters, so I must ask, Do you suffer from down syndrome or any other form of mental ******ation? I'm kinda in between b/c most of your spelling is correct...

Same odds as me playing the pick 4 in lottery and hitting boxed...Odd....
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12-08-2009 , 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by tk1133
I see...Thank you for creating an account just to show us how stupid you are....
Actually, he's making perfect sense.

As usual it's you who are demonstrating what a complete idiot you are.

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So if I'm a 90% favorite to win a hand, it's "not very uncommon for that person to catch that card," TEN percent of the time? 10 times out of 100? What is your definition of "uncommon?"
Well, uncommon is something that doesn't happen very often and which will cause surprise and comment amongst normally intelligent people when it does.

If 80 hands are being played per hour for a couple of hours then you would expect to see a one in ten event around 16 times.

No one with an ounce of sense would call that 'uncommon'.

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Before I continue, I don't want to be rude to less fortunate posters, so I must ask, Do you suffer from down syndrome or any other form of mental ******ation? I'm kinda in between...
No you're not.

You quite definitely suffer from some fairly serious 'form of mental ******ation'.
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12-08-2009 , 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by tk1133
I just wrapped my computer w/ tin foil...will this help?
No, but wrapping your head in several layers of cling film would definitely help a great deal.
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12-08-2009 , 12:50 PM
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Originally Posted by tk1133
Finally a math/poker prodigy has arrived...

I see...Thank you for creating an account just to show us how stupid you are....
So if I'm a 90% favorite to win a hand, it's "not very uncommon for that person to catch that card," TEN percent of the time? 10 times out of 100? What is your definition of "uncommon?" How does uncommon relate to you?

Before I continue, I don't want to be rude to less fortunate posters, so I must ask, Do you suffer from down syndrome or any other form of mental ******ation? I'm kinda in between b/c most of your spelling is correct...

Same odds as me playing the pick 4 in lottery and hitting boxed...Odd....
Wow tk, maybe you should go back to bed, you seem a little grumpy this morning.

I've noticed that lately you've been coming out against the complete rigtards once in a while and calling them out. Unfortunately, your reading comprehension is more than a little off this morning and you've picked your spot very very poorly. Or is it standard procedure for you to call someone stupid in a number of different ways just because you don't agree with their definition of 10% being uncommon?
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12-08-2009 , 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by qpw
Actually, he's making perfect sense.

As usual it's you who are demonstrating what a complete idiot you are.



Well, uncommon is something that doesn't happen very often and which will cause surprise and comment amongst normally intelligent people when it does.

If 80 hands are being played per hour for a couple of hours then you would expect to see a one in ten event around 16 times.

No one with an ounce of sense would call that 'uncommon'.



No you're not.

You quite definitely suffer from some fairly serious 'form of mental ******ation'.


You are talking about the "many hands/hour" myth. This is wrong, the higher the hands/hour rate the less psychologycally important the bad beats tend to be. So the chance that we remember them is lower too. Its exactly the oposite of what you said.

What many people talks about is that you play a 1 hour online session and the FIRST pocket K that someone pays you to see the flop is cracked. And many many times the second and the third.


That is very different from winning 10 KK after the flop and losing 2.
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12-08-2009 , 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by qpw
Where do you suppose the rest of us get our winnings from?
Not if they quit playing because they think sites are rigged and that you have access to a superuser account.
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12-08-2009 , 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by DonkoTheClown
Not if they quit playing because they think sites are rigged and that you have access to a superuser account.
Well then I'll just use my superuser account to take money from competent players.

Er, wait ...
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12-08-2009 , 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by toltec444
You are talking about the "many hands/hour" myth. This is wrong, the higher the hands/hour rate the less psychologycally important the bad beats tend to be. So the chance that we remember them is lower too. Its exactly the oposite of what you said.
An interesting POV but not one that makes any sense.

Selective memory is known to play a major part in the belief forming process of rigtards.

It even affects non-rigtards but they have the sense to understand its workings and discount the suspicions it engenders.

But that is irrelevant in this case because we were not discussing selective memory. We were discussing what constitutes 'uncommon' and something that is going to happen one time in every ten is not something that any normal, intelligent, person would consider 'uncommon'.

Otherwise you would end up with nonsenses such as a telephone number being considered 'uncommon' because it ended in a 9.
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12-08-2009 , 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by DonkoTheClown
When I say TRUST, I mean:

1. Trust that what the online site is not rigging their RNG
2. Trust that they are not manipulating the programming
3. Trust that their security team is good enough to catch hackers
4. Trust that your money is safe
5. Trust that there isnt a team of superusers working tournaments for the online site to limit players results so that the site can win some or most of the money near the top of the prize pool.
6. Trust that there are no bots with access to the rng in realtime working for the online site.
7. Trust that the site knows how to stop botting

I am sure we can put more on the list. This all comes down to TRUST.

I disagree that manipulation of the outcomes in cash games or tournaments can be absolutely 100% found in the hand histories. Variance can be used in a pretty wide range of situations. Anotherwords, you can just tell someone they are running bad, especially if they havent played 5 million hands on the site.
I agree, you can use variance, and even if you want to find a statistical anomaly you have to know where to look for the anomaly, which hands, which situations, wiich combinations of situations, plauers staks, cards. Theoretically there is almost infinite variables that you can analyse AND manipulate.

Last edited by toltec444; 12-08-2009 at 01:45 PM.
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12-08-2009 , 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by qpw
An interesting POV but not one that makes any sense.

Selective memory is known to play a major part in the belief forming process of rigtards.

It even affects non-rigtards but they have the sense to understand its workings and discount the suspicions it engenders.

But that is irrelevant in this case because we were not discussing selective memory. We were discussing what constitutes 'uncommon' and something that is going to happen one time in every ten is not something that any normal, intelligent, person would consider 'uncommon'.

Otherwise you would end up with nonsenses such as a telephone number being considered 'uncommon' because it ended in a 9.

What Im saying is that the highr the hands/hour rate the less significantly and emotional important the bad beats should tend to be, even if still is a lot more easy to remeber them. If what happens is the more you play the beats get more psychologically and emotionally significant, something is wrong, because it shouldnt be the case.
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12-08-2009 , 01:46 PM
This year is pretty uncommon too.

It's pretty uncommon to eat the last hot dog in the pack.

If you regularly break only one of the Commandments your sins will be uncommon.

Unemployed people in the U.S. are really uncommon.

Last edited by spadebidder; 12-08-2009 at 01:55 PM.
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12-08-2009 , 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by toltec444
I agree, you can use variance, and even if you want to find a statistical anomaly you have to know where to look for the anomaly, which hands, which situations, wiich combinations of situations, plauers staks, cards. Theoretically there is infinite variables that you can analyse AND manipulate.
So is this then new rigtard creed?

"There are so many ways of rigging the deal that even if someone is doing so there is very little chance of anyone spotting it".

It's an amusing idea and one you could easily apply to a great many of the people with whom you deal.
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12-08-2009 , 02:03 PM
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Originally Posted by qpw
So is this then new rigtard creed?

"There are so many ways of rigging the deal that even if someone is doing so there is very little chance of anyone spotting it".

It's an amusing idea and one you could easily apply to a great many of the people with whom you deal.
Just logical thinking.
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12-08-2009 , 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by toltec444
Just logical thinking.
I'm sure you think so.
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12-08-2009 , 02:46 PM
So what's the summary of the last 20 pages or so, have we cracked the rig yet?!

(if so pm me the arithmetics)
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12-08-2009 , 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by qpw
So is this then new rigtard creed?

"There are so many ways of rigging the deal that even if someone is doing so there is very little chance of anyone spotting it".

It's an amusing idea and one you could easily apply to a great many of the people with whom you deal.
yes
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12-08-2009 , 03:07 PM
[X] Thread delivers!!!
You guys never let me down in here.
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