Playing 6 handed NL on GGpoker 4 different players had pocket AAs in a space of 9hands. I've never seen this in all my years of playing on different sites. Is it possible for sites to manipulate probabilities of players getting premium hands to up the action? (ie. bigger pots = bigger rakes)
About 10-15 years ago, I was at Foxwoods with a well-known player sitting to my right. Tho it was so long ago, I can’t remember who it was. But it was someone big at the time. You prolly know him, and would be impressed.
1st hand, I was dealt the red aces (not the first hand we played, but the first hand of this story, which will consist of two hands…stay tuned). We got it aipf, and he had the black aces. I had to fade a 3-flush, but in the end we split it. A third player who claims to have folded kk after we got into a raising war. Because at that time, the 5th raise was always aces. Still, I think he was full of ****. Anyway, we either split about $500 or maybe we each won $500. I don’t recall. I also don’t remember the stakes, but it was prolly either 10/20 or 10/25, whichever Foxwoods ran at the time. But times were different then, and I could beat 10/25 live. I doubt I can anymore. Not sure tho, but if anything maybe I’m a small favorite. But with PIOS solvers and all that crap, I’m probably behind the curve nowadays.
Anyway I tipped the dealer a greenie that hand because the flush didn’t come. And we were all just screwing around anyway. Because back then, poker was easy. And we all had a good laugh.
Very next hand I get the red aces again, and this time I get into a raising war with some kid. And we get it aipf. Well, wouldn’t you know this time he had the black aces. So the flop is dealt and it’s all diamonds, or hearts. I don’t remember because it was a long ass time ago. The the turn comes and it brings the fourth Diamond (or heart, because as I said it was a long time ago and I really don’t remember those specifics). And it was all over right there on the turn. The river was inconsequential because I already made a flush on the turn because I had the red aces. And whether it was a Diamond flush or a heart flush doesn’t matter, because both my aces were red, which means I had the flush either way.
So I tipped the dealer ON THE TURN $100. Because I knew I would win the pot, and I did. I stacked him. I remember it was a $10k pot, which meant I profited $5k, minus the $100 I had already tipped the dealer, who I liked, because he gave me aces two hands in a row. If you want you can call the dealer Will. I’m not sure if that was his name because it was so long ago, but one of my all-time favorite dealers is named Will, so we can call this dealer Will if you would like, even though i doubt that was his name.
And that’s when I knew the game was rigged. But I didn’t care, because it benefitted me. The other guy, I’m pretty sure he rebought. But he may not have because it was a long time ago.
And this is a true story. If you don’t believe me, you can ask the name player sitting to my right. If he’s still alive. He was kinda old back then. Like 50 or 60. He’s probably still alive. You can probably ask the kid, too, but I have no idea who it was. I had a Gavin at my table to. Not Gavin Smith tho. Could have been Gavin Griffin (pretty sure it was) who was kinda well known at the time. So you can ask him if you want. Though I’m not sure if he would remember. It could have also been a different Gavin (but definitely not Smith (RIP)).
So that was 4 aces in 2 hands. And both times I had the red ones. And I still remember that hand 10 or 15 years later. Well, I sorta remember. I can’t recall if the flush was Diamond or hearts. I think I said diamonds earlier but now that I think about it I’m leaning more toward hearts.
It was a good day. The next day I finished 2nd or 3rd in a stud tournament. Or it could have been a few days later or earlier. Anyway the tournament winner got a leather Foxwoods jacket. And the winner already had a few of them because he was REALLY good at poker and asked me if I wanted it. And I said yes and I got a nice Foxwoods poker leather jacket that I actually wore cause it was pretty good quality. He was a really well-known player. Much more famous than the guy I split the first hand with. He was also one of my early mentors. And I never felt bad busting to him, because I really didn’t even deserve to be anywhere near that final table, cause I sucked at stud. (Tho I was/am quite good at Stud hi/low…prolly ever better than him, tho it wasn’t a popular game and there really wasn’t much money in it, except for in mixed games where my knowledge of the game came in handy.)
So yeah, it was prolly rigged.
Cliffs: I’m good at stud hi/lo.
Last edited by King Fish; 09-30-2021 at 03:07 AM.
Reason: Fixed some typos, left others.
Ignore these Russian trolls as they are just hear to do the bidding of these sites that are rigged. GGPoker is as sketch as it gets as they all are. Did you do something that was unusual? I think they can change their cards after they are "dealt" and it is based on your action. Let's say you are not sure if you want to triple barrel bluff. If you decide to do it then they will call and turn over the nuts on the river. If you check then they will check and have a slightly better hand than yours.
I've run into this happening like you said where someone got aa a couple times in a very short time frame. This happened to me a couple times and always came from me tilting and shoving all in with no money in the pot. The amount of times this happened and the amount of times they flipped over AA is too many to ignore.
Ignore these Russian trolls as they are just hear to do the bidding of these sites that are rigged. GGPoker is as sketch as it gets as they all are. Did you do something that was unusual? I think they can change their cards after they are "dealt" and it is based on your action. Let's say you are not sure if you want to triple barrel bluff. If you decide to do it then they will call and turn over the nuts on the river. If you check then they will check and have a slightly better hand than yours.
I've run into this happening like you said where someone got aa a couple times in a very short time frame. This happened to me a couple times and always came from me tilting and shoving all in with no money in the pot. The amount of times this happened and the amount of times they flipped over AA is too many to ignore.
I got back to back quads in a NLHE game the other day, both at the same table. In the same span of 30 mins, I got quads 4 times across two tables on ACR.
Ignore these Russian trolls as they are just hear to do the bidding of these sites that are rigged. GGPoker is as sketch as it gets as they all are. Did you do something that was unusual? I think they can change their cards after they are "dealt" and it is based on your action. Let's say you are not sure if you want to triple barrel bluff. If you decide to do it then they will call and turn over the nuts on the river. If you check then they will check and have a slightly better hand than yours.
I've run into this happening like you said where someone got aa a couple times in a very short time frame. This happened to me a couple times and always came from me tilting and shoving all in with no money in the pot. The amount of times this happened and the amount of times they flipped over AA is too many to ignore.
So true. GG Poker is about to have their house of cards come crumbling down