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Originally Posted by sturutter
TimStone, I know you are acting honestly, and make a very noble, helpful addition to the thread. However, would you admit, that although there is some nonsense screaming of "its defintiely rigged!!!", you have now heard a more balanced view from a number of grinders who have never said this about another site, and are asking you to respect their opinion, that something is badly wrong with PokerBros?
Hey. I can only comment of what I see and what I have experienced over time. I currently have 3-4 PLO highstakes playing PokerBros since the beginning of the year. They all win and they all win significantly. None of those guys has complained once about collusion or about riggedness. Those guys all playing Poker for over a decade.
I had several instances in the past where players complained about collusion and about riggedness. I had that on PM, on FishPoker and tbh on pretty much any single site I offered at one point.
I personally was convinced PM was rigged in end 2016 where I played and lost 250k yuan at the 25 50 games in maybe 6 weeks. This has never happend to me since 2008 that I was losing 50 stacks in 6 weeks. I couldn't win 2 days in a row even if my life depended on it. At the same time my friend with whom I started playing was up around 100 stacks... So did i think it was rigged? Definitely but it's hard to uphold this believe if your friend wins around double what you lose.
In 2017 I had a spanish Highstakes pro shouting at me that FishPoker is rigged. That he hasnt seen anything like this in 10 years playing. That this is an absolute joke and there is no way this is fair. I think he maybe lost 500k yuan in a week or 2 or so. After taking a break for a couple of days he came back for more and won over 2mio yuan in the coming weeks.
Long story short. I still think for whatever reason variance on apps is higher compared to Stars/888/whatever. I have no idea why that is. At PM i put this down to straddle and antes. On PokerBros I have no idea why this is but I think variance is higher compared to regular sites.
If you serve 100s of people over the years you will have people who are running in the absolute bottom 1%. It's just simple statistics. And if you run in the bottom 5% it will most likely look rigged.
I like making money but I don't like making money at any cost. Whenever I have a reasonable doubt about a certain site I will inform players that I think there could be something fishy going on entirely independant on how much I make on this site.
Personally speaking PokerBros is the most successful app I have seen since I started in 2016. I haven't seen a single union scam yet where union tries to play less than what they owe you which happens alot on asian apps. Game quality is constantly good for the entire year now which is almost never the case with other apps where game quality declines fast. Resultswise apart from maybe the early PM days there have been no other app i have seen where regs are able to achieve such high winrates consistently.
I know all this doesn't help you much but it's my honest opinion after being involved in the industry for over a decade and on the agent side of things for almost 5 years.
cheers
tl;dr: i dont have any indication of any riggedness whatsoever