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Originally Posted by EDDtown
Samoleus, I even read you saying how bad the players were back then , You claim to win 5 or 6 buy ins a day because the players were so bad. So you think someone as accomplished as me that has been playing poker solely for a living for 10 years (longer than you I might add) could not only beat those players, but was losing 5 or 6 buy ins a day to players that were limping 3 gap off suit connectors UTG & calling bets with 8 high only to back door 2 pair
EDDtown, I'm not going to get sucked into this ridiculous discussion about online poker being rigged, but I'll answer this post from you. First of all, I have nothing to go by other than your own word that you are an accomplished poker player. You are spouting off a lot of statistics about your poker accomplishments that are exceptionally hard to believe. Moreoever, many of your comments seem to indicate that you don't understand concepts of variance and other basic poker principles. I won't elaborate, because I know that you have been roundly ridiculed on this thread and I don't want to make an enemy of you and add fuel to the fire. But please remember that just because you say that you are one of the greatest players around doesn't mean that others (myself included) are going to believe that at face value.
Even in this latest post, you claim to have been playing poker solely for a living for ten years, but a couple of days ago you told me that you could not play me for more than 40K because most of your money is tied up in your job as a day trader. Your comments have been full of these inconsistencies and absurdities throughout this thread. I do not know if you are actually being duplicitous - trying to make yourself sound dumb in order to get better odds for a match or for some other reason that I can't decipher - or if you really believe some of the stuff that you are saying.
At the end of the day, suggesting that online poker is rigged is comical. Suggesting that it is rigged specifically against you is so absurd that it is not even worth qualifying or arguing. First of all, what would the sites stand to gain by doing this? Second of all, why would the sites risk being shut down by the Gaming Commission just to try and get to YOUR account? Third, do you have any comprehension of how complex (read: impossible) it would be to construct software such that certain players get hands that are coolered and bad beated? To give other players 7-4 offsuit against your KK, knowing that (a) they are going to open shove for 150BB and then (b) get there? I worked at MIT Lincoln Labs for a number of years, and I can assure you that the entire software team there could never construct code that would be able to do that.
Your claims are so outlandish: my only concern is that they are causing such a backlash with others on the site that our (already agreed upon) match seems to be moving to the back burner.
I'd like to urge the rest of the posters in this thread to stop this ridiculous argument about online poker being rigged. Everyone knows that it is not (including EDDtown). Can we please go back to finalizing the match?
As an aside, I will be out of town from tomorrow morning until Monday and will not be on this site while I am away.