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04-11-2017 , 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
It's just perplexing to me that people believe this. You can observe it, but somehow it won't show up in the stats. How do you think this works?
Don't you know that the mind can see and recall patterns way better than a stupid computer.

That part of the riggie creed goes way back.
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04-11-2017 , 11:08 PM
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Originally Posted by bot01101
Soooo. You are admitting that a rig is possible?
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04-21-2017 , 06:06 AM
It will not show up in the stats, that's why you love this story.
It is impossible to show up in HHs. It is clearly rigged in other ways.
For example when you try to move in stakes you will be crushed, you get worst hands and when you finally get a decent hand it will not hold, or get aces and everybody folds to you.
Easy peasy, stats look fine your money is gone. Same for everybody, not a personalized rig. You win up to a point.
Jugmit is on to something, there always comes a winning streak after a long losing one but that is also up to a point. You can't exploit it. For example the software will allow you to triple your bankroll and again you are punished. Can't exploit that either, you will say triple your br and withdraw. Okay, but then you will pay back everything anyway, you ll lose what is left and you will have to deposit again. The software registers everything about the players and it creates situations in which rake is maximized without altering the stats too much.
There is always room for variance after all.
Clear until now?
There will never be employees coming to tell you about a rig. Those who know about it are paid so they are guilty also, it would be dumb to throw away a money printing machine and go to jail.
Sometimes I fool around with the roulette for $0,10 with Martingale. I know pretty much everything about the roulette but most of the times at a BM casino I pull this trick to multiply my BR for the night until it starts moving against me. At Pokerstars it's almost impossible, if you bet on Red it will come Black and Zero 17 times. If you bet Black-Red it will come Red-Black endlessly until you are broke.
Are they using same fantasy mirrors for roulette Rng? so you want to tell me that if 15k players want to play roulette for play money, Pokerstars shoot beams for light through the mirror for each spin, for each hand of play money and real money and black-jack...pfff gtfo
Bottom line, poker is rigged and you can't prove with HHs.
The only thing you can do is deposit and lose money no matter what your skill level is.
Have a great weekend everyone, get out of this cancerous system and go play some real poker, tip a nice dealer and have peace of mind that you get a truly random deal.
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04-21-2017 , 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by johnnysnow
It will not show up in the stats, that's why you love this story.
It is impossible to show up in HHs. It is clearly rigged in other ways.
For example when you try to move in stakes you will be crushed, you get worst hands and when you finally get a decent hand it will not hold, or get aces and everybody folds to you.
Easy peasy, stats look fine your money is gone. Same for everybody, not a personalized rig. You win up to a point.
Jugmit is on to something, there always comes a winning streak after a long losing one but that is also up to a point. You can't exploit it. For example the software will allow you to triple your bankroll and again you are punished. Can't exploit that either, you will say triple your br and withdraw. Okay, but then you will pay back everything anyway, you ll lose what is left and you will have to deposit again. The software registers everything about the players and it creates situations in which rake is maximized without altering the stats too much.
There is always room for variance after all.
Clear until now?
There will never be employees coming to tell you about a rig. Those who know about it are paid so they are guilty also, it would be dumb to throw away a money printing machine and go to jail.
Sometimes I fool around with the roulette for $0,10 with Martingale. I know pretty much everything about the roulette but most of the times at a BM casino I pull this trick to multiply my BR for the night until it starts moving against me. At Pokerstars it's almost impossible, if you bet on Red it will come Black and Zero 17 times. If you bet Black-Red it will come Red-Black endlessly until you are broke.
Are they using same fantasy mirrors for roulette Rng? so you want to tell me that if 15k players want to play roulette for play money, Pokerstars shoot beams for light through the mirror for each spin, for each hand of play money and real money and black-jack...pfff gtfo
Bottom line, poker is rigged and you can't prove with HHs.
The only thing you can do is deposit and lose money no matter what your skill level is.
Have a great weekend everyone, get out of this cancerous system and go play some real poker, tip a nice dealer and have peace of mind that you get a truly random deal.
Really poorly disguised troll, this is just an utter fail.
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04-21-2017 , 08:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Monteroy
Not really. His man issue was that he was a pretty mundane semi-riggie (ie: claims to not be a riggie while saying very standard riggie arguments), so he is innately dull.

The "anything is possible" and look at Full Tilt/Lock Poker/Enron stuff is dusty dust as riggie beliefs go, but at least he introduced the speculative concept that the site owners were secretly the programmers in response to why programmers never talk. That was a tad more amusing than the standard "non disclose agreement" belief most riggies say incorrectly about an illegal act. Thus, small as it was, with some effort to get him to expand his posts he did add a little entertainment value.

Obviously he will vanish and be forgotten soon, just like all the others before him, and then jungmit will no doubt come during the intermission as he always does between riggies, and perhaps he will offer some prop bets and then in a couple weeks or a month+ a new riggie will be along to replace this one. Hopefully that one will bring fresher riggie material.
MONTROLLING
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04-21-2017 , 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Mike Haven
For general interest, here's breakdown of consecutive hands played at one table on a major site that I received by e-mail straight from the horse's mouth:

"After seeing your data, I was quite concerned and did some research. I broke down and pulled the hand histories for a .50/1.00 holdem game for 2 hours of play. This was from hands played during a 2 hour time frame on table **** $0.50/$1.00 Limit Holdem from 11:00 p.m. EST - 1:00 a.m. EST on **** 17th and 18th.

Here is what I found:

Winning hand on the river -
No Pair - 4
1 Pair - 18
2 Pair - 14
3 of a Kind - 4
Straight - 6
Flush - 2
Full House - 8
Quads - 0
Straight Flush - 0
Hand did not go to the river - 14

I was actually able to see the hands where someone bet the river and everyone folded, so these are accurate "statistics".

This table was 9 or 8 handed most of the time, and out of the 70 hands, an average of 6.2 people saw every flop. So take this into account.

70 total hands
An average of 3.35 players saw every river. So you can see that many more hands will be made in this limit because the average number seeing the river is very high.

Of the 70 hands here is the %:
No pair - 6%
1 pair - 25.7%
2 pair - 20%
3 of a Kind - 6%
Straight - 8%
Flush - 2%
Full House - 11.4%
Quads - 0%
Straight Flush - 0%
No River - 20%

I don't know exactly what these statistics are supposed to be, but I can guarantee you what I have recorded above is in no way incredible or amazing. This is very typical."

Don't you think that that should put a lot of our minds to rest and let us get back to the tables without worrying that the deal might be rigged?
In 70 hands u think it's common to see a full house 11% of the time? 8 full houses in 70 hands? I find that hard to imagine in a love game.
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04-21-2017 , 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by jungmit
In 70 hands u think it's common to see a full house 11% of the time? 8 full houses in 70 hands? I find that hard to imagine in a love game.

Pick up a deck of cards. Deal a full ring table or a 6-max, whatever you like face up. Then deal the board. Tell me how many "weird" **** you will see.
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04-21-2017 , 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by alex20823
Pick up a deck of cards. Deal a full ring table or a 6-max, whatever you like face up. Then deal the board. Tell me how many "weird" **** you will see.
Yes bit all 10 people will not be in every hand. He said on average there was 3 people in flop and they made thst many big hands? Seems unlikely to me
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04-21-2017 , 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by jungmit
Yes bit all 10 people will not be in every hand. He said on average there was 3 people in flop and they made thst many big hands? Seems unlikely to me

And how do you know that in the other hands that there weren't full houses at showdown, if any other player that folded had acted differently that he or she wouldn't have made a full house ? Or quads ? Or royal flushes ?

You need to take every player into consideration because you cannot know what the player will do with his hand. For example, some people will call a raise in the BB or on the BTN with 6 3, 8 5, 7 4 etc. ( go lower stakes and you will see people calling 4x 5x raises in any position with that junk ). It's only natural and expected that those hands will suck out on A K, A Q etc. and other big hands. If they do suck out more often than expected why doesn't it show on an analysis ? It would be trivially easy to detect.
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04-21-2017 , 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by jungmit
Yes bit all 10 people will not be in every hand. He said on average there was 3 people in flop and they made thst many big hands? Seems unlikely to me
If only there was a way of finding out. It starts with an m...? m...? ma? Math? Oh wait, you don't believe in that.
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04-21-2017 , 12:11 PM
I don't know exactly what that thread is supposed to mean. Scrolled through it a bit, seen some people asking about the network and one idiot that claimed that it was rigged because he lost a few hands that was quickly pinned down to earth by the other posters.

I also see that you haven't posted in this thread for 6 years.

Welcome back to life!

Edit: Read some more. Saw concerns about superusers. What does this have to do with the RNG ?

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04-21-2017 , 12:23 PM
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Originally Posted by alex20823
I don't know exactly what that thread is supposed to mean. Scrolled through it a bit, seen some people asking about the network and one idiot that claimed that it was rigged because he lost a few hands that was quickly pinned down to earth by the other posters.

I also see that you haven't posted in this thread for 6 years.

Welcome back to life!

Edit: Read some more. Saw concerns about superusers. What does this have to do with the RNG ?
lol 1 person huh,learn to read

welcome back to life???? you have over 100 posts in this thread just on this 1 account of yours in this thread,i say get a life

the select players know the runout or can rig the runout

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04-21-2017 , 01:38 PM
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Originally Posted by jungmit
Yes bit all 10 people will not be in every hand. He said on average there was 3 people in flop and they made thst many big hands? Seems unlikely to me
You misread.

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Originally Posted by Mike Haven

This table was 9 or 8 handed most of the time, and out of the 70 hands, an average of 6.2 people saw every flop. So take this into account.

70 total hands
An average of 3.35 players saw every river. So you can see that many more hands will be made in this limit because the average number seeing the river is very high.
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04-21-2017 , 02:19 PM
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Originally Posted by confirm
lol 1 person huh,learn to read

welcome back to life???? you have over 100 posts in this thread just on this 1 account of yours in this thread,i say get a life

the select players know the runout or can rig the runout

I have only one account.

What "select" players ? ( I think you mean selected )

If so, you are talking about superusers. This is a thread about the rigging of the RNG.

And just out of curiosity how would a superuser rig the runout ? Voodoo ? Blood magic?
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04-21-2017 , 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by alex20823
And how do you know that in the other hands that there weren't full houses at showdown, if any other player that folded had acted differently that he or she wouldn't have made a full house ? Or quads ? Or royal flushes ?

You need to take every player into consideration because you cannot know what the player will do with his hand. For example, some people will call a raise in the BB or on the BTN with 6 3, 8 5, 7 4 etc. ( go lower stakes and you will see people calling 4x 5x raises in any position with that junk ). It's only natural and expected that those hands will suck out on A K, A Q etc. and other big hands. If they do suck out more often than expected why doesn't it show on an analysis ? It would be trivially easy to detect.
Read what he wrote. They didn't take all folded hands and then say how often these hands were made. They took all hands of players who played the hands. The folded hands were not counted. So if u do the same thing live I am saying u won't see such big hands.
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04-21-2017 , 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jungmit
Read what he wrote. They didn't take all folded hands and then say how often these hands were made. They took all hands of players who played the hands. The folded hands were not counted. So if u do the same thing live I am saying u won't see such big hands.

How do you know ? How do you know that if I decide to call my 6 2 offsuit from MP facing an UTG raise and a call and flop a boat ?

Also, how do you explain the fact that the thing that you are implying don't come up in analysis ? It's pretty straightforward isn't it ? You say fullhouses or big hands come up too often, why don't the stats show this ? Also, don't you think it would be a pretty stupid rig ? I mean it would be detected in 1-2 weeks given a big enough database.
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04-21-2017 , 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by alex20823
How do you know ? How do you know that if I decide to call my 6 2 offsuit from MP facing an UTG raise and a call and flop a boat ?

Also, how do you explain the fact that the thing that you are implying don't come up in analysis ? It's pretty straightforward isn't it ? You say fullhouses or big hands come up too often, why don't the stats show this ? Also, don't you think it would be a pretty stupid rig ? I mean it would be detected in 1-2 weeks given a big enough database.
How would it be detected? Tell me how often if 3 people see a flop a full house should be made by river? Now tell me how often I 4 people see a flop then 1 folds, now tell me how of ten if all 4 stay to river, now tell me if 5 people see a flop 1 folds on flop 1 folds on turn how often it should happen. What if 5 see flop and 2 fold on flop? See.......u can never have these stats
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04-21-2017 , 09:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Kelvis
Really poorly disguised troll, this is just an utter fail.
How convenient, shut me down immediately.
Sure, I will believe you are not a shill and employee of 2+2.
You are volunteering, yeah right.
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04-22-2017 , 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by johnnysnow
How convenient, shut me down immediately.
Sure, I will believe you are not a shill and employee of 2+2.
You are volunteering, yeah right.
Nobody cares what you think.
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04-22-2017 , 08:55 AM
You know nothing, Johnnysnow.

As for Jungmit, can anyone good at maths/stats answer him ?
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04-22-2017 , 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by johnnysnow
How convenient, shut me down immediately.
Sure, I will believe you are not a shill and employee of 2+2.
You are volunteering, yeah right.
How out of control is your ego that you immediately jump to the conclusion that someone must be paid to disagree with you?
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Originally Posted by alex20823
As for Jungmit, can anyone good at maths/stats answer him ?
Why? You can sit here and write out a detailed explanation simple enough for a child to understand and jungmit will still be hung up on some dumb little minor detail.

I've fallen for that a few times when I was bored at work and felt like trying to actually explain something only to have him reply with basically "yeah but this other thing is bad". The dude basically hops into this thread when he has a ****ty day to ***** and doesn't actually want to discuss anything.
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04-22-2017 , 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by jungmit
How would it be detected? Tell me how often if 3 people see a flop a full house should be made by river? Now tell me how often I 4 people see a flop then 1 folds, now tell me how of ten if all 4 stay to river, now tell me if 5 people see a flop 1 folds on flop 1 folds on turn how often it should happen. What if 5 see flop and 2 fold on flop? See.......u can never have these stats
Obviously the probability of each of these scenarios can be calculated, and the frequency of occurence can be counted and compared. Simple scripts in most hand tracking software can do this.
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04-22-2017 , 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Monteroy
Of course it is "possible." A site can program it so every hand dealt is AA if they like. The fact that it is possible does not mean it is happening, and to date not a single riggie theory has been proven, nor has a single programmer come out to reveal a rig.

I get that riggies like to cling to the "anything is possible" concept, but they then assume that means everything happens, and proof of something happening or not is less significant to riggies than a belief that anything is possible. Is it possible that Lizard Men rule the planet in a secret manner? Sure, anything is possible. Does that mean Lizard Men are ruling the planet? Well, some actual proof would be helpful.

Now that I have said that indeed a rig is technically possible, the questions to you would be - has any of the myriad of RnG rigs for major sites ever been proven to exist to date? Does the lack of any proof of a RnG rig at a significant site mean anything to you or effect your beliefs?

All the best.

Monteroy,

Have you ever watched Bar Rescue or Kitchen Nightmares?


I would like to start a webseries with you as host just like Jon Taffer/Gordon Ramsay except we take losing regs who think the world is against them and they are gods gift to poker (riggies especially) and show them the errors of their ways. the word "delusional" comes to mind as your catchphrase!

I'm only half joking about this. If the market were there, we'd have a show. No lack of clients
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04-22-2017 , 03:08 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueCollarPoker
Monteroy,

Have you ever watched Bar Rescue or Kitchen Nightmares?


I would like to start a webseries with you as host just like Jon Taffer/Gordon Ramsay except we take losing regs who think the world is against them and they are gods gift to poker (riggies especially) and show them the errors of their ways. the word "delusional" comes to mind as your catchphrase!

I'm only half joking about this. If the market were there, we'd have a show. No lack of clients
OR u can take losing winners( aka rakeback players) and do a show with them? Would be much more fun I beleive. MONTROLLING
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