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Originally Posted by Bobo Fett
I'll try giving you some advice, even though I'm sure it will be ignored.
If you're truly addicted and love the game (and aren't losing money which you can't afford, in which case you should seek help like Gambler's Anonymous), spend your time trying to improve rather than obsessing about bad beats. I can guarantee that you're not as good as you think you are (as is the case with most people), and I can almost guarantee that's why you're losing, not because the game is rigged against you.
And I guarantee you that I am not delusional or overconfident. When I sit at the table I put a label on everyone and play accordingly, engage with bad ones and avoid the good ones till the final stages where I face them and then only do my best to survive. But on pokerstars the overwhelming feeling is that you are in a grinder hit from every side most of the time, you are milking the loose and they catch runners, you limp with queens and get a flop with ace, you raise the kings and put allin by aces. Specially later in the tourney, an anecdote circulating for some time now, it's like they keep the hole pairs for the end and you start seeing them clash one after another. It's jacked for fun and rigged to level the field.
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Originally Posted by NewOldGuy
In roulette or any other game of chance there will be a small percentage who are net lucky lifetime, since the game has no skill. And the longer they play or more they play the less the chance of being net plus. This is exactly the opposite of a winning poker player.
What do you mean by: ''And the longer they play or more they play the less the chance of being net plus'' ?
What if I tell you he spends a couple thousands of bets then hits 3 numbers consecutively and makes 46k fold?
AH..you mean that in general, for the community of players the chances decrease the longer they play.
But that is exactly what happens at Pokerstars, a player plays good or bad doesn't matter, long enough to bink a couple top prizes and he is a net winner for that year.
I do believe tho that if you eat and breath poker, study it 24/7 and have the latest huds you increase your odds to bink something, or not. Some will bink more than not inevitably over, then you decide to put them in 1% or 30% depending on what point you are trying to make and call them winners.
That is why you don't play but only promote and defend poker sites on forums every day for decades. You share the prey.
And Bobo I am not a clinical case of a gambler.
Perhaps the most important reason why I keep playing from time to time even knowing it is rigged is because I want to chip my money in this industry so honest people can see that poker is still alive and this increases the opportunity that one day a perfect, transparent and uncheatable software will be created. That will solve many current problems like data mining, once a hand is played it can as well never be saved because it was unique and random. You will have to rely solely on your skills and imagination. No usernames will be shown without fear of bots or house players. Unchanged, unhackable and truly random does not rhyme with rake. It's coming!
Last edited by Mike Haven; 01-18-2019 at 02:27 PM.
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