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Originally Posted by danfresh36
I can't say one way or another if internet poker is rigged, but intuitively from my own experience its hard to say definitively that its not. My argument would be that from a software perspective it would be incredibly easy to weight certain probability outcomes in certain directions and from a business perspective highly profitable to do so for new players...
Oh, good grief!
Not this lame theory again.
How many times does this need saying?
If they want to fix the game so that new players make big wins that means that the fixing has to be noticeable to very inexpert players whilst at the same time being unnoticeable to the more expert players who are being cheated.
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I have been playing online for 5 years and the first night I played (with very very little knowledge of the game) I turned 50 dollars into $3500; in a matter of 8 hours or so.
It's called 'variance'.
You can take the worst player in the world and set him against the best in the world and after an hour's play the worst player can be way ahead.
Of course, they can be way behind but in that case they don't come on here and tell everyone.
Can you see how you are part of a self selecting sample?
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I was playing 15/30 limit w/ in 5 hours and crushing. So after 5 years and who knows a thousand or so sessions its crazy that with the least amount of experience and suicide style bankroll management, I ran the hottest out of my whole life the first night I ever played.
So, if you believe that's written into the software why aren't you milking the sites by starting up new accounts lef, right and centre to harvest the first night winnings?
Presumably because at the back of your mind you know perfectly well that your theory is absurd.
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I feel like with offshore companies,
Any company is going to be offshore for a lot of people.
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Is this thought so far off? Have other people had the first deposit run like god syndrome only to never run that good again?
Of course it's way off.
It would stick out like a sore thumb in the statistics.