The great "Poker is rigged" debate - Collected threads edition
Bad beats are part of the game. I understand that. But after absorbing more than my fair share on Poker Stars I switched to Full Tilt six months ago. The first few months were much better over on Full Tilt.
Now Full Tilt is worse than Poker Stars ever was. The past month has been brutal. Tonight I've had pocket aces six times. All six times I lost to someone with a lower pocket pair.
I can't tell you how many times (at least 100 times the past thee weeks) where someone needs one card, especially two or three hours into a tournament, and they hit when odds are 90 to 95% in my favor.
You tell yourself that's poker until it happens time after time after time.
I enjoy playing poker online but I'm about ready to give it up. There doesn't seem to be a site to where it plays out like a casino. You see bad beats in a casino but NOTHING like Full Tilt and Poker Stars back when I played over on that site.
Curious as to others observations. Is there a site that's on the up and up or is it time to retire from online poker where you start to get the feeling the deck literally is stacked against you?
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Edit/MH: See:
I hereby confirm what Bobo said for the record:
It is possible to rig random number generators. Everyone please refrain from making false statements about what I said and didn't say. I made that exact statement several times itt. Here, i acknowledged it.
It was acknowledged at least a combined 500 times from about every non-riggie posting itt, yet riggies keep repeating that point over and over, because they don't really care about correctness.
Does a single riggie acknowledge that
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Edit/MH: An interesting article from 1999: https://www.developer.com/tech/article.p...
To save you a search, read https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/p...
Funny comments of guys there )) They try to cheer him up 😃
Thank you, Mike 😀, I tried to find something on Google, didn't expect to find this here on 2+2!
No one can convince me Betonline isn't rigged. Variance is a thing but seeing constant 1 in a million situations every time you play is crazy.
I've been playing for about a week no 10nl boost and the exact same players are constantly seeing these situations.
My AK vs QQ 3x against the same player having flopped nut straight to them hitting runner runner house.
2 hands later QQ v KK same ****ing player.
10 hands later another player AA vs J9 they hit trips.
These are CRAZY situations to see in po
What you describe (the gameplay) is very similar to Ipoker also.
I haven't ever seen that on Pokerstars or Party, but Ipoker does really put VS the same player under domination. From the same positions. Again and again. It's crazy, because it's "visible" for players.
Pokerstars and Party's gameplays are much more "natural"
What you describe (the gameplay) is very similar to Ipoker also.
I haven't ever seen that on Pokerstars or Party, but Ipoker does really put VS the same player under domination. From the same positions. Again and again. It's crazy, because it's "visible" for players.
Pokerstars and Party's gameplays are much more "natural"
It gets even better. I ended up getting quads 3x with 1 being for bad beat jackpot.
It gets even better. I ended up getting quads 3x with 1 being for bad beat jackpot.
What is going on there? 😃
Looks like a small arcade game 
Lol that's how betonline is on phone.
You know what's absolutely insane though? I hit quads 4x that night w 1 being for BBJ. I also lost KK to AA and AK to AA all in preflop.
The odds of that session happening are 1 in 134 trillion. No other human in history will ever experience it. It's absolutely insane and that's not even all the crazy **** I saw.
They won't allow me to download my hand history however which really ****ing sucks bc I would pay to have someone run it through some software and find all the astronomical **** I saw that night.
I'm still flabbergasted
Guys, some new info has come regarding the topic 😀 (due to a discussion of iPoker case on the biggest russian poker forum)
https://twoplustwo.com/post?postId=58917...
Can be interesting for those who are interested in "what the variance is in poker in numbers" 
