I'm going to repeat that I'm not convinced that Stars is rigged or anything. But I have noticed the sort of thing that MTTR mentioned. I have discussed it briefly with him about a year or so ago along with a couple of other regular players.
About a year and a half ago, programs became available that calculated all-in equity in no-limit hold 'em cash games.When we started experimenting with the programs, we found that regulars as a whole were performing pretty badly over pretty big sample sizes. My results were horrendous.
Unfortunately, I no longer have those databases due to my hard drive passing away. But, my results from this year are even worse.
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ht=doom+switch
But even though that's a 700k+ sample it's obviously nowhere big enough to be meaningful, which is why we would need to compare large samples of many regular players and see the results as a group.
In the past we have heard that there is no way that a site would take a chance on running a dishonest game because the risk wouldn't be worth the reward. But this theory has been proven to be very incorrect.
I like to believe that Stars is running a fair game. The truth is, however, that it would be extremely easy for them to manipulate results and it would be extremely hard for them to ever be caught if they were doing so, especially with their no data-mining policy.