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Originally Posted by taxcollectord
I'm really legit curious at this point. I've played online on and off for years mostly stars. I've had one big cash on stars of 4500. I have an itm of 23.8% (I only play mtts online). Now my issue not exactly the bad beats but every time I'm super deep in a tourney I'll get into a hand where a guy that is playing solid will randomly CALL OFF like 50+bb with complete air and flop the nuts to bust me out. It's so sketchy because it's not the early stages where it's full of shooters and it's not like 20bb calls I'm talking 50-100 bbs calling off with air n flopping the nuts. It's seriously like they know it's coming. I have no problems getting in the money but every time I'm deep its like someone has ****ing cheat codes or something? I've played 2 live tourneys this year and I've cashed for 16,500. I play a lot of 1/2 live as well n do well. But I can't win on stars. I can get in the money n slowly lose my bankroll but every time I'm in a spot to go to final table n get a big payout this **** happens and I really am starting to feel like something isn't right.
I GOT CARRIED AWAY HERE - U CAN JUST READ THE 1ST TWO PARAGRAPHS.
Here is my 2 cents. I agree with you. I'm an American & our politicians (people that want jobs to get more money & power for themselves) have ruined online poker for us. And this is the land of the free....LOL....our plutocracy has basically taken away our choice to play online poker or not, yea, we have a few lousy sites left.
I don't think anybody can give u the kind of answer or info that u want. Seems u will just have to make a decision with the info u have.
Before that happened, I had my 3 favorite sites (out of dozens to choose from) where I would win consistently in the long run. But these went away & then I found a site that had MTT's with unlimited rebuys for the 1st hour and then a final add-on. I loved these.
There would always be players that would play almost any 2 cards in a multi-way pot to end up with a big stack b4 the add-on. While many times they would get their big stack - if they didn't finish in the top 10 or top 5 sometimes - they would lose money.
I would player weaker hands than usual in some spots, but I would never go crazy. Anyway - one night I went to log-in & I couldn't. I finally came here to c if there was any news and there was. That site sold/gave away all its American players to another site.
We were given no warning that this was going to happen & I found out why. This was a bitter pill to swallow & its when I gave up playing for any meaningful amounts of money anymore. I had been doing so well in those MTT's with the rebuys & add-ons. Well, this new site had one tourney that allowed 1 rebuy and 1 add-on.
I used to go to some site called Shark scope or something like that which data mined tourneys & I could click on a button that showed my MTT results on a graph for free & I could look at my opponents win/loss graphs too as long as I let them look at mine.
But basically, I'm still a computer novice & don't know enough to use Pokertracker or Hold-em manager which I knew young, smart, computer players were using on me. Then its not even poker anymore.
Anyway - the thing about being moved to the other site without any notification that it was going to happen was the straw that broke the camel's back for me & online poker. Why, cause this new site charged you $100 for a withdrawal where the other one gave u a free withdrawal once a month.
So if we would have been notified, I would have withdrawn all my money b4 I was moved to the new site. I wrote to the new site & told them that if any bank did this u could sue them. But they knew as an online poker site on some island or country there was nothing I could really do about it and they were right.
There have been many scandals in the online poker business. Whenever a lot of money is involved in something, there are always going to be people cheating or trying to in many forms. I just play for very small stakes now because I don't trust online poker - period.
I lost the biggest hand I ever played online too. And that hand gave me the feeling u have - something isn't right. I was playing $1-$2 NLHE. I had been at it for a while and was doing well....I had a little over $600. I got dealt KK - my opponent (who had been playing pretty wild & getting lucky & I knew if he stuck around much longer - his luck would change - but at this moment, he had me covered).
The flop came K-4-4 and he went all-in & I obviously called for my $600 or so. He flipped over A-K. The turn & river came 4-4. Yep, I felt something isn't right. That was the 2nd highest NLHE hand I ever played, I lost both.
Oh yea, when I was playing live, this casino in Tucson, rigged some of the bad beat jackpots. Everybody at the table was in on it & it always happened on the graveyard shift. The shift manager would bring the new decks to the table, one player would stand in the exact spot to block the eye in the sky.
I knew these people. I saw the shift manager (he was eventually put on paid leave, somebody fessed up finally) at the other Tucson casino at the time, and he was playing video keno all day to try & hit a big one. At the other Tucson casino - there was a drawing for 2 cars and that was rigged.
The winner I knew & he was standing next to me that night & he couldn't help himself from telling me that when they drew the 1 winning ticket from this big drum with thousands of names, they would call his. And he was right. He obviously colluded with the drawer of the ticket, Maybe the guy palmed it.
That guy thought I would think more highly of him by telling me he got it rigged somehow. He was wrong! I had a lot of tickets in that drum. You got one by playing a lot of poker for 3 months b4 the drawing and every time u got a very strong hand (don't remember exactly what qualified), the dealer would give u a ticket to sign, and she would turn them into the shift boss, who would put them in this big drum.
So the guy that won only played enough poker until he got one ticket.