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Originally Posted by SooperFish24
I give up.
2 last questions.
Do you guys think its possible that some poker sites are manipulating the play in some way?
Yes or No
No in the way you and many other basic rigged believers think, as it would be so much more complicated then much, MUCH simpler methods depending on their goals.
If their goal is to be a quick scam like some sites that come and go then the best thing they can do is simply not pay out withdraws.
If an insider wanted to make money off of players they could do the super user account approach which does not impact how the cards are dealt. Messing with the deal is an easy way to get caught, so that would be the last thing anyone would do.
If their goal is to somehow even the playing field to help weaker players they would do it in a way that would not be so obvious, which are the amusing flaws of most rigged theories. Plus, they would have to kill all the people who helped since somehow no one has blown the cover of all of this corruption yet.
You are free to believe whatever you like, but all you are doing is misinterpreting short term data that you "remember" and have a "gut feel" about. If you lose to a new player you add the belief that it is because it is a new player, even when that has nothing to do with it. You may as well look at the shirt you were wearing and believe the bad beat was caused by that.
You and many others who have your beliefs like you listed earlier are ironically the easiest to con, because you only think of the most simplistic ways you can be cheated. Cash out curses distract you from doing proper statistical analysis and watching the actual play of other players to ensure that they are not bots or colluding, which is how most cheating takes place
A number of threads here have demonstrated some statistical evidence on players who are likely bots, and those studies do so much more to make the game better for us all then another person who lacks any math skills or desire to prove their beliefs claiming they lose only because they played a new player after they cashed out some money. That is why no one will take you seriously, because you do not do what it takes to take this topic seriously (even though you believe you do).
My coin flip post earlier was a bit snarky, but I assure you that if you flip a coin 1,000 times and record the results you would be able to construct just as many rigged beliefs depending on which selected sequences you used.