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Originally Posted by bigjames881
Of course they do.
OK, cool.
Let me explain why your rationale is not only wrong, but the underlying motive for this is not even there.
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Let me explain. Lets say a fish deposits $100 and he sits at a table with players far superior than him. Sure, he'd get busted up and lose a good % of his stack, but pokerstars will give him hands and miracle rivers to stay afloat.
This idea of miracle rivers is a very separate idea to the idea of action hands. You need to slow down and think about this stuff critically.
The idea of action hands is that the pre-flop cards or the flop cards are designed to induce lots of betting.
The idea of turn or river cards favouring particular players is based upon redistributing who wins.
Can you understand that there is a key and fundamental difference between these two very separate allegations/ideas?
Let me now explain why both are false ideas: the first one actually
contradicts your motive because you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how transactional sites - whether it being gambling or poker or whatever - make their money. The second is simply impossible on PokerStars.
Why action hands hurt the profitability of online poker sites
The people who make these claims don't even realise that what they are saying is self-contradictory.
You can't simultaneously claim that there are Action Flops (to increase betting) while claiming that the purpose is to keep bad players in the game longer. "Action flops" increase betting, and increase variance... and the greater the pot size and the bigger the variance, the faster the fish go bust.
This is like someone pointing at a green wall, saying it is black, and in the next breath, they're claiming it is white. Not only are both claims wrong and false, but they're also internally self-contradictory.
People can claim to have action flops (to generate action/rake) or people can claim that there's a plot to keep bad players in the game longer. You can have one or the other - not both, because one stops the other from happening.
All gambling operations - online or offline - make their money from churn. They make money by having people repeatedly wager it over and over and over.
So, therefore, a site would generally profit more from low variance situations than high variance situations.
Therefore - and this is now self-evident - a site is actually harmed by bigger pots. A site is actually better off (relatively speaking) with 100 pots of $1, than one pot of $100. The same principle applies to roulette, slot machines, and so on.
Now, what are "action hands"? Action hands are high variance situations: where the rake is capped and there is lots of betting. We have just
proved that high variance situations are not good for the site, and therefore, we have
proved that action hands are not good for the site. Thus, there is simply no motive for a site to generate action hands: if anything, there would be motive to generate
anti-action hands.
Why It Is Impossible for the Flop/Turn/River Card To Favour Particular Players on Sites With a "Static" Shuffle
Once the cards are shuffled then, just like live casinos, the deck is set and then dealt. Since computer can have no way of knowing what players will do (obviously impossible to predict the fufture), the server has no way of conjuring up special boards for their play.
See here for more information:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...&postcount=498
Of course, this does not apply to sites with a continuous shuffle. That's then an issue to raise with them.
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They do this so the fish will keep playing while they continue to get rake money. It does them no good to have fishes go busto really fast and flock to another site.
Your own argument is internally contradictory: if sites wanted to keep fish alive longer and were willing to fiddle with the shuffle to do this, they would cause pots to be smaller, not bigger.