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Originally Posted by tk1133
I have discovered that posting in capital letters is regarded as "shouting" in forums. I apologize that I did this, and I will not do so again. (Unless I want to shout!)
I understand that I have different views to many of you. I wish to discuss these in a civil manner and again hope that we can all make a clean start in this regard.
tk - good approach. Mark has a good suggestion above too. I've been around here a few months and I don't think most people here are at all opposed to discussing the possibility of rigged poker sites. What they are opposed to is the silly way most rigged threads start with these premises:
A bunch of surprising bad beats = rigged.
or
I know I'm a better player than this = rigged.
or
Live poker has way fewer suckouts = rigged.
or
I can see patterns that aren't statistically provable = rigged.
or
A bad apple superuser on site X cheated = rigged.
All of those statements have been shown to be false so many times over and over that they have become jokes.
Please don't take this as condescending if you already know it, but one thing that fools many players is that you
will often see many more bad beats online than live, but not because anything is rigged. Some of the reasons are you see more hands, there are many more beginning or bad players betting on draws (or on nothing), players take more chances online since they are anonymous, players take more chances at low stakes found online, most players have selective memory about the frequency of bad beats, and on and on. One thing I did early in my education is learn all about poker math and odds and the luck factor. I'm still not a very good player but I know how much luck can happen in online games, and I know what's normal. You just have to get over it and learn how to beat online players.
You also may know that better players will suffer many more bad beats than donks, because the better players aren't calling down with weak hands or longshot draws all the time, they are on the other end of idiots doing it.
Lastly, you had the misfortune of starting this thread the day after the rigged thread of the year was deleted and the poster banned because he got so outragous and delusional, accusing everyone on 2+2 of being shills and poker site employees covering up and trying to silence him, and he finally went too far. We had much fun mocking him. So you got some of that left over.
Best of luck (pun intended).