rigged r better players

jimmym · #1 09-09-07, 07:49 PM

Dont think the sites are RIGGED It just feels like it sometimes, I think with so many new players online its getting harder to work out there play, It does though get better the further/deeper you get in tournaments.

Cash games still have lots of players risking it all on a fish and again at the lower levels they seem to hit more but I suppose in the end these are the players we all target.

As for site rigging am sure it doesnt happen well I play on pokerstars Ladbrokes and tilt I think there too big too be rigged but you never really know for sure.

Gordogg · #2 09-09-07, 08:04 PM

It's variance, have to learn to get over that. Weak players win a lot cumuatively but individually those weak players go broke all the time.

Invigilator · #3 09-09-07, 08:48 PM

bingo. lose sight of this, and you'll be uber-tilting in no time

Talking Poker · #4 09-09-07, 11:59 PM

*sigh*

Two things:

1. Anyone ever notice that winning players never think online poker is "rigged?"

2. WHY would a poker site risk their entire business - which makes them assloads of money when they run clean games - by rigging games, when they will be raking exactly the same amount of money if they didn't? Along those lines - how much would it cost them to pay off the programmer who did the "rigging" to keep his mouth shut? How many millions of dollars? Or do they just have him whacked after he's done with the coding?

Wes · #5 09-10-07, 05:53 AM

Wow, never would have thought you were 40. I guess wisdom does not pass on into old age.

Talking Poker · #6 09-10-07, 10:22 AM

Who's 40?

Reel Deal · #7 09-10-07, 11:04 AM

If you have PT you'll see that AA, KK, QQ, etc... all hold up as they should percentage-wise over a large enough sample. That, along with what TP mentioned, is pretty good evidence that on-line poker is not rigged.

Tony Cheval · #8 09-09-07, 08:08 PM

1) You're seeing a lot more hands online than live, so you will see more suckouts (and we always remember those more than when we have AA and take the pot down on the flop).

2) When you get more stupid calls in a hand, your actual % chance of winning the hand goes down, though your ROI/EV goes up. Just remember there's no profit in them 'teaming up' to outdraw you (unless you're up against an actual collusion group, which is extremely unlikely).