First of all, let’s get it out that I’m not one of those poker players that will complain about the shuffle. The winning players will be all over me for that one as they are winning players, naturally they do not want their source of income cut off or you to believe that it’s possible to have a pattern in online poker today.
Why are the winning players winning? I ask myself that question all the time. Are they genius, are they math whiz kids, are they actually smarter than the 90% of other players, or do they see a pattern that develops during their poker session that alerts them to fold the big hand, to push or shove over the top when they are clearly dominated.
I am not a whiz kid, or a math guy at all but I see patterns developing when I’m playing poker online, **** sometime I feel like Daniel Negreanu calling out the result before it happens. How can I do that when it’s supposed to be legitimately random? If it’s totally random I defiantly would not be able to see anything develop what so ever.
The short stacks get dominated when they’ re flipping for their tournament lives, the miracle set up hands – set over set – hitting the 2 outer on the river. The big stacks dominate the flips close to the bubble with the worst hand. 99 winning more often than AA or KK, **** everyone is starting to call pocket 9’s the stars nuts. Online poker is starting to become a huge bingo game, the wild miracles are happening more often than they used to a few years ago that’s for sure.
The operator’s explanation is that you see more hands online than in live poker, no **** Sherlock, that goes without saying. So the WSOP main event takes 7 days to get to a final 9 whereas the WCOOP only takes 2 days. So how is this relevant at all as in the end it’s the same amount of hands dealt. The difference being that one is truly random and the other is well a littler shady.
Yes you see all the crazy hands in live poker too, but a player that plays live will not bust tournament after tournament to the same situation time after time for god sakes. That would be very strange to say the least. But it happens the entire time online, busting tournament after tournament the same dam scenario.

You have me convinced that online poker is rigged with all your math wizardry.

Go to internet poker. Look for the really long thread about poker being rigged. Type that tl;dr text in there and then wait for Pokerstars to find your house, kidnap you and lock you away so that the norms will never find out your proof that online poker is rigged.