ONLINE POKER and CHEATING
So there is a certain site where we can't see what goes on behind the curtain: Their operation is ran from some small island in the Atlantic Ocean = Trust us bro on the RNG.
Anyways, the moment it goes all in, something funny happens; especially after someone time banks...like, wtf are they looking at???
I even hero called someone's time bank all in with 2nd pair on a paired flop [Ah+A+J offsuit] holding JT. [I took the play line of calling a loose players bet with 2nd pair.] They flip up KT suited hearts---turn card is the J of hearts, giving me a full house---river card is the Q of hearts, giving them a Royal Flush. This particular user---and a few others---consistently get miracle run outs. [Another time I checked a flopped nut flush to her and she all in jams Top pair, sh!t kicker and ends up with a full house.]
Another guy wasn't all that great, but had Final Tabled with me and was the biggest stack. I looked up his SharkScope: he was at a 92, but his play did not match that. He really got all of his chips from 9-10 suck outs---I know this because he was on every table with me throughout the tournament---the most egregious being time banking and then calling an all-in preflop from a nearly equally big stacked player with 22, and the other guy had shoved TT. Turn card was the 2. [This happened about the 3rd hour into the tourney.]
We get heads up, and he never bets into me when I flop a monster, but he bets into me when I have absolute trash...and I don't know how many times he called with a questionable hand/mid/bottom pair vs someone's huge math draw and it held.
These people---certain people--- are batting at 100% for ridiculous run outs, and their sharkscope doesn't match their level of play. They just press buttons vs nut set/K83 [Opp has KK, they have nothing] and the button masher on a bluff ends up with a straight/flush.
I keep notes on them, and some of them I ran out of space for keeping notes. So I just put ***'s on them, and if I see multiple lines of ***'s on them, I stay away from them and usually make it to the Final Table.
Some I suspect that they turn the cheats off to practice without cheating. Others apparently leave it on to goad and talk sh!t to you, like the guy above^
Like one time I had AA, limped pot, didn't get raised, guy in the big blind with multiple ***'s and multiple unworkable hyper-links to miracle run outs [whereas everyone else has working hyper-links] jams all-in into me on a dry board: T52 offsuit...and I decide, well, I didn't raise preflop and he is jamming 250 BBs into me. [BB=40. Starting stack=10,000.] Figured he probably a flopped 2 pair, and folded.
He shows "the bluff" [86o] and starts talking sh!t like he knew he got me off AA. "See, this is why I'm better than you, blah blah blah." I guarantee you if I called he would have went runner-runner trips/2 pair/straight...just too many times someone has a guaranteed calling hand and a certain few of these "players" jam with air and end up w/straights/flushes. [The reason why I limped is because I was in early position and multiple people behind me loved to do the min raise/funky bet thing preflop.]
FYI: If I had even min raised, I would have called him. If anyone had raised preflop I was just going to say f-it and call them down, even the min raise/funky bet preflop-jam all in flop/turn/river thing.
I will end with this: Heck, we just raided Venezuela...what's stopping our government from peeking behind the curtain at this particular poker site? We, the Poker community should demand this...our money is literally at stake. To the negative Nancy's: I don't buy into this site, I take the free daily bonus and build it up and cash out, I HAVE NEVER BEEN NEGATIVE ON MY SHARKSCOPE. To the rest of the deniers: Cheating in online Poker has in fact happened in the past, and it could be happen again.
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When does an anomaly become more than an anomaly? [via-Google AI overview]
An anomaly becomes "more than" just a rare occurrence when it signals a significant event, reveals a deeper pattern (like a fraud ring), crosses a threshold into instability (like a "Canon Event" in Spider-Verse), or when its context reveals it's truly problematic (like a midday energy spike), transitioning from a simple outlier to something needing action, explanation, or representing a systemic issue. It moves from being an outlier (just different) to a meaningful anomaly (something to investigate), potentially becoming a critical event or a systemic problem
Levels of an Anomaly
Outlier/Point Anomaly: A single, extreme data point that deviates from the norm (e.g., one unusually large bank transaction).
Contextual Anomaly: A data point that's normal in isolation but strange given its situation (e.g., high energy use at 3 AM).
Collective Anomaly: A group of data points that seem normal individually but collectively signal something unusual (e.g., a coordinated, low-level cyberattack).
Significant Event/Problem: When an anomaly's cause is identified as critical (fraud, system failure, disease outbreak) and requires intervention, it's more than just an observation.
Systemic Shift: When anomalies become frequent or linked, they indicate a fundamental change in the system's baseline, moving beyond individual errors to a new normal or instability (like a disrupted "Canon Event" in fiction).
When it Becomes "More Than"
Context reveals meaning: A data point becomes an anomaly when its specific context (time, location, user) makes it strange.
It points to something bigger: It stops being noise and starts pointing to fraud, a bug, or a unique event.
It's not just one: A single oddity joins with others to form a pattern.
It threatens the system: In narratives like Spider-Verse, an anomaly becomes a multiversal threat when it disrupts crucial "Canon Events".
Essentially, an anomaly grows from a simple "weird number" into a "weird situation," then potentially a "critical incident," and finally, a "fundamental problem" that changes the rules.
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1-I bring this up because a particular online poker site has an anomaly of---certain specific users--- "Time Banking" for the big suck out. If they go into the time bank, I know I have lost/the person that time banked is going to suck out vs another at the table. So much so, that it has become "more than an anomaly" and deserves investigation. [Out of easily 100's, possibly a few thousand times someone time banked on me, I won the pot 1 time---making it on par with the "Potripper" situation, who never lost a showdown in a $100,000 guaranteed $1,000 buy-in tournament in September 2007.]
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2-One of these users on the same day, different tournaments, got it all in on the flop vs me and I turned a full house and could only lose to a 1 outer on the river [A gut shot Royal Flush draw] = 2.27% [To hit the Royal Flush]
Later that day I flopped the nut flush vs Top pair, sh!t kicker = 2.42% [For Top pair to come out on top.]
Probability of A occuring 1 times and B occuring 1 times [On the same day, to the same user, separate tournaments, 2 consecutive big suck outs] = .02421 × 0.02271 = 0.00054934 or it should happen in about 1/2000 days...But these villains are batting at 100% when they go into the time bank, across multiple tournaments on a daily basis...and those probabilities get worse and worse every time they made that bad move, against myself and others.
In Statistics (p-value)
In statistical hypothesis testing, a p-value of 0.0005 is considered highly statistically significant (it is much lower than the common 0.05 threshold). It suggests that the observed results are very unlikely to have occurred by chance alone under the null hypothesis.
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VERY UNLIKELY TO HAVE OCCURED BY CHANCE ALONE = Rigged Poker or a Compromised site.
A few of these users I can never win a pot against. My buddy watched me play and one of these users got put on my table and BEFORE IT ALL EVEN HAPPENED, I told him, "Watch this b!tch, no matter what I have, she will suck out, BIG TIME." Sure enough, we got it all in preflop 3 times and I lost with:
AA vs 66
KK vs 22
QQ vs TT
I can't win coin flips vs her, when I'm the 70/30 favorite, 80/20 favorite, 95/5 favorite, across probably a 100 all ins now, which is what spurred that comment ^ And she always time banks on me when she does this, which at this point is "more than just an anomaly."
Which begs the question: "What are they looking at while time banking?" I believe they are checking the run out of the board before it even happens. They are batting 100% while "time banking", minus one time that I think they purposely lost.
So that's what a compromised site looks and sounds like, and we, the Poker community should demand congress to investigate...our money is literally at stake here.
