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Originally Posted by dontplayhere
I have played the last 2 months on Kings Club Poker and I have never in my life seen hands consistently play out in the manner that they do on KCP. I am far from a pro but I have a lot of experience playing online on several different sites and ive never seen anything close to what ive seen the past few months. Losing is not the problem. Ive had bad months before and for sure the fact that ive had almost entirely losing sessions on this site adds to my frustration. However, there is zero debate to be had with me that the site is compromised. I wish I downloaded my hand history to show before it disappeared as I will never play here again and there is just no logical explanation for the way certain hands played out in both NLHE and LHE. Hitting 2 outers appear to be the norm and it always happens after the money goes in. THis was an expensive experiment for me and I just want to do what I can to get the word out. I am 90% sure that RNGs are at play as opposed to the site intentionally rigging the games for weaker players but getting my money in good for me was absolutely a losing strategy.
Summary: Be careful in general online and I cannot state my "suspicions" strongly enough that these types of hands do not play out the way they have for me in other venues. Bad beats happen. Not to the extent that I have seen on KCP but that's not what I am posting about. Its the way these hands played out which really gives me the surety in which I am talking about this site. I don't make these accusations lightly.
The O8 is almost certainly being scammed, and most professionally at that. I looked at close to 1000 deals of 30-60 O8 and, while it would help to see what's getting thrown away, it's pretty obvious who is in on it. There are at least 6-8 accounts involved. It's usually 3-deep with the crossroaders playing effects of removal. I'm not going to go into the methodology of how I solved this, but frankly, the site operators should have algorithms in place so I don't have to figure this stuff out on my own.
I played them for a few weeks, and then gave up.
The PLO games, according to a friend of mine whose name you'd recognize, and plays generally PLO 5K/10K, are filthy dirty.
Neither of the above should surprise you.
It wouldn't surprise me also, if there was bot play involved by the site operators. It also wouldn't surprise me if the names of the owner(s) ever got outed, we'd recognize them (I have my guesses in the pool- think probably American citizen, former or current bookie, well known high stakes poker player, previously experienced in online cardroom ops-one name immediately comes to mind, and I hope it's not him, because I'd prefer to be wrong about this. And yes, this is a US-facing site, although the web hosting is offshore.)
I too have seen some amazing things on that site, but online is what it is. I sort of know what a rogue operator can do to you, but I think it's really risky to be putting money on a site which to my knowledge, isn't licensed anywhere.
If the site is legit, I got an unlucky result, and that's fine. I own it. I probably get what I deserve for playing on not only an unregulated site but an unlicensed one.
The problem is, if my WSOP and Kings Club results are really legit, I got at least a 1 in 1000 result, probably higher. At those numbers, it's fair to question if the result is legit. Down over 600BBs after 25k+ deals combined. In 10 years of professional B&M play, albeit in better games on average, I don't think I lost 200BB straight ever. This has happened 3 times over two sites.
I also never won playing anyone heads up, something like 0-12, and i'm known for being a h/u specialist lol. It was pretty amazing. I got dealt close to zero and the river card was pretty much tilted against me in O8.
There was a session playing PLO Big O/8 where six pots in a row, I caught the absolute worst card on the river. A card that not only counterfeited my low, but made oppo a 4 card hand at the same time. Prettty impressive, considering 3 of them were Aces. I offer no judgment about anything here except to officially think that was really unlucky, but that was the final straw for me.
Now...best game there seems to be the 8-16 9-handed LHE. Way too much speed on that game, play correctly and you should be fine. There may be some top hand going on at the higher limits. But, if there's bot play going on, it doesn't matter. .
It really sucks in 2020 that if you live in the Gambling Capital of The Universe (Vegas), your choices are WSOP (a shitty site by 2005 standards, which is run by 888 like it's an amenity), Kings Club and ACR. Great if you're a crossroader, a total sucker or play cheap. Not so great if you're a serious player.
Let me add this in closing...and this is about the $10-$20 O8 on WSOP. A well known card cheat was a friend of mine. I avoided his games like the plague, but unlike a lot of cheats, he was a very good player (hint: think $75-$150 games in SoCal). He actually wrote a manual on how to scam hi-lo split, both Omaha and Stud 8oB. How the WSOP game is being played ticks off a lot of boxes in his manual. My mistake was seeing the really juicy game and forgetting about the manual, but I had been away from this for 8 years now and even when I was playing, it was either h/u or tourney. I play poker for fun now; have much more profitable things going on in my life.