[Global Poker] Official Discussion Thread

Seems that way; and the final table is usually where collusion becomes obvious in MTT.

There was recently a controversy in a high stakes MTT, where players covered each others action; then soft played each other at final table; because by allowing each other to place higher; they made more money.

Not something to brag about; just means you're not paying attention.

Every site is botted.

This is not the case; and TMK, one of the streamers they promote is a husband and wife combo....that live together; they don't love each other, but they definitely live together. (Why would they play poker together if they loved each other? Recipe for domestic abuse, lmfao)

I had a support person argue with me; Essentially I had written a curse word in passing, not towards them. The exact phrase: "If the POV of global poker isn't to make it right, then my POV is there is a casino an hour away I can play at with none of this ****ing drama."

They berated me for using the f word in that context; so I suggested we move to arbitration; quoted the TOS, told them where there are errors in the TOS....(Clause 24 is incorrectly referenced as clause 23) and then said 'Let's arbitrate' as it's not in your TOS. Your TOS says I can't harass players; says nothing about cussing passively.

They replied with the cookie cutter "We'll take that into consideration" but completely stopped trying to censor me.

I'll comment here because nobody else will take you seriously.

This is happening at an absurd rate for myself as well.

Runner Runner Flush -> https://play.globalpoker.com/gp/10/hand/... (All in on flop - I was ahead @ flop)

One outtered on river -> https://play.globalpoker.com/gp/10/hand/... (All in on turn - Ahead on turn, lost on river - admittedly terrible play, but it was still correct based on each's hand)

You might be thinking; if they are calling these hands; you're just getting bad beats, and you should be stacking these people! The thought makes sense on paper; In practice -> Any time I go all in prior to river; I'm getting the most insane 1 or 2 outters. The 6-8% odds are occurring at rates above that.

The only all ins I've won; are instances where I had the worse hand and got their by river; just like they do to me.

It's really odd; I don't get it, and it doesn't make any sense. The math isn't mathing on GP.

The real issue is that players who don't play on GP, they just see the hands; and think these are the 'variance' examples; and we're hiding the 'winning' hands.

I can support your statements; as it has very much been my experience in cash games. Something is off; can't figure out what. No HH for SC, and such a detailed HH for GC makes you really wonder what's going on...

Gross misuse of semicolons aside, there's enough Sharkscope data available to show winning players are profiting in tournies in the longterm which is indicative of no issues with RNG. Are you strictly referring to ring games when you mention you think the "math isn't mathing?"

I don't disagree with all of your points, for what it's worth. Their TOS is often vague and their Support continues to deny internal issues. There are definitely bots on this aite although not rampant or talented (at least at low-midstakes). Just trying to clarify since there is enough public data that doesn't reveal anything weird about tourneys.

I thought holdem had two hole cards.

I've written about this multiple times but hate doing so. I'll TL;DR it.

I think ring games are being used (inappropriately) to fund tourney guarantees and the $5 per envelope promo. (Which comes to well over minimum wage)

Tourneys do have an RNG issue; and I'm a winning tourney player. I know the exact spot that can be abused in tournaments. I've posted about it; it sounds crazy; it's actually DDA. (The alternative is variance hits in the exact way I expected it to at the exact point I expected it to each time I tested it)

That's before we get into undisputed facts like no HH, no HUD, etc. Are they really trying to protect us from sharks? Or is it more likely their shadiness has benefits to themselves? Why specifically can't I see my own HH? (HH that lasts until you logout and is often incomplete is not a HH; it's extremely suspect).

HH would remove all doubt; they have no plans of adding it.

Not sure about the rest of your post but can't argue with you here. Would much prefer that they'd be able to at very least provide HH upon request similar to CoinPoker.

I almost always have to login twice on my PC, no issues with my phone or on a different PC. The first time is always "there was an issue logging into your account" Something about deleting cookies. 2nd time always works no problem. Sometimes it does login to a black screen and I just have to refresh the browser and its fine. I use Brave browser on my PC to play here.

I'm still having issues. The table just freezes up now and I time out. It happens like three times an hour...making the game basically unplayable.

I'm trying everything here. Updating browsers, clearing cookies/cache, updating/restarting computer, restarting network adapter, etc. I'm just using play money right now so I can test out the connection before putting any more real money on the site. This is really annoying. There is *nothing* wrong with my internet connection. It's perfect everywhere outside of Global.

It's when it's my turn to act. I'll make a decision and enter it, and then the screen will just sit there with my clock running down. Sometimes the action gets through, sometimes it doesn't and I time out. Totally unpredictable as to when it happens but once it starts, it doesn't stop.

Good news for Global players, you have 7 days to claim your five free Spin & Go tickets

My message is different from yours, the part about the free tickets is missing lol. I never play them, might be why

I play omaha on the site at PLO 50 and PLO 100 - but the 100 games kinda dried up - but i've won over 10k on the site, and the variance can get pretty bad, but the games are defiantly beatable. You will run really good on there and really bad sometimes. I'm on a downswing myself right now - to just random players flopping quads vs my AAxx and than them going on insane 7-8 buy in upswings playing every hand. But usually they just dump it back.

I will say the variance can feel somewhat fishy - but that seems to happen on all poker sites - where you just get caught in a doom loop and can't win. I suppose it happens at live poker too.

Just checking in again to see if anyone else is experiencing this. It basically has me not playing poker again as I'd have to make new deposits on wpn and bol to play elsewhere.

Global has a few FLO8 cash tables that they are running as a test during their Omaha MTT series. Y'all should play some FLO8 and hopefully they will keep the game around. It is a great game and too hard to find places to play it.

sounds like its on your end

Does anyone have any experience having no access to Global for more than 3 months and keeping your sweeps coins?
It will be a pain having to withdraw everything and redeposit, but that seems like the option talking to support.

call me a rigtard all day, I'm fine with it but I take more ridiculous river beats on this site than I ever have playing full time anywhere else online which includes Rignition & ACR. Luckily, I never deposit on this site just playing on the free money every few months after it builds to a few buyins. So every few months I get reminded why to never play here. Combine that with the horrible windows 3.1 interface with no standalone app, no hand histories, no HUDs and this site is 100% made for boomers to waste their Sunday evening. I hope WPT dominates the US traffic next year.

cool story

I am a sucker for punishment so I play on Global often. It is rigged AF. I'm up quite a bit lifetime there, but yeah the site is definitely off. You have to treat it like you're playing craps. It is either "your time to win" or "your time to get f***ed". The variance is far more wild than any other site I've played over the past 20 years.

I'm sure most are unaware of this, but you can replace images loaded by the site with ones stored locally using chromes' local overrides. You can use this to create your own skins for the site! I couldn't get every image replacement to work but the entire table/background and the cards are arguably the biggest two anyway and those are fairly easy.