Rigged for action.

[Esqueleto]

I am flabbergasted at how often the following happens:

Have a pocket pair, say pocket 9s. Another 9 comes on the flop. But here's the interesting part, the flop also ALMOST ALWAYS comes out with a straight draw available. Like in this case the flop would be:

8 7 9

And on top of that two of those would be the same suit, so there would be four cards to a flush.

Next time you flop trips take notice, the setup monster is coming.

[DeadBabySoup]

seems like i always flop a set with a suited board. a couple days ago, i flopped a set with 3 hearts on the board. everyone checked around to me, so i bet the pot. one guy called. the next card was the 10 of hearts. he checked. but i knew he made a flush if he didn't have one already. so i checked. then the river was the 10 of clubs. he bet the pot. i shoved all in. he instacalled with the ace high flush (he flopped it). then he hung around bitching for another 10 minutes after i knocked him out, when he couldn't have played his hand any worse.

[HeyKidMove]

Just boat up and it won't matter.

[C8H10N4O2]

Just boat up and it won't matter.

^This.

[Silent_Ac3s]

Often I find myself wanting to call online rigged too, but I have nothing to compare it to since I rarely play live. If it "seems" like unusual events are happening too much though, start keeping track of the statistics of your flopped sets vs draws and such. That way you can compare your stats with the long run to see the effect of how far off they are, because you could just be on a long long... long unlucky streak of cards that can give you these ideas.
When I play I've noticed that I tend to remember the scary boards more than the good looking ones. I think this is because I have to think twice about the possibilities on intimidating boards, but I just take down the pot naturally if there are no scare cards out there.

[RiverstarsVictim]

Dont tell me, they produce action flops to increase the rake taken?. Play higher limits where either the max rake is taken PF or there's no rake at all because you won the hand PF. Problem solved.

[Esqueleto]

Don't get me wrong I have beaten people on the other end, flopping a straight to their trips.

I just find it funny how often it happens. Just a conversational article.

[infinii]

It's not rigged.

You are playing alot more hands per hour and these hands are much more memorable then the hands where you raise preflop with AK, flop comes K28, you cbet and villain folds.

[Esqueleto]

Yup absolutely agree. But again, wining with trips always and I mean always has you dodging cards to the end, it's never an "easy" win.

[DeadBabySoup]

Yup absolutely agree. But again, wining with trips always and I mean always has you dodging cards to the end, it's never an "easy" win.

trips is when 2 of the cards are on the board. when you have a pocket pair, it's called a set. people mix these up all the time.

[travz21]

"YES, online poker is soooo rigged! That would be illegal...just like stealing your money from your online BR would be. To think of it, why wouldn't they just straight up take my money if they were going to do something illegal. That would be significantly easier AND more profitable than programming in action hands."

Why can't fish logically work their way out of a retarded viewpoint like that? Maybe because if they were logical, they wouldn't think that way in the first place. I'm sorry, but I can't take someone seriously if they legitimately think online poker is rigged.

[DeadBabySoup]

online poker has been hacked in the past. it wouldn't surprise me if there are people out there now hacking in one form or another. but it's a very small percentage of hands played. more like a percent of a percent. and when it does happen, they aren't going to bother with anyone playing at our stakes.

[travz21]

Being hacked is way different than having hands rigged by the actual site, as I know you know. I'm perfectly fine with people accusing others of cheating. What I'm not ok with is people claiming that the site they play on is totally set up regarding the way hands play out. It's plain ridiculous. I'm mad when it rains during one of my well played golf rounds, but I don't claim that it has to be rigged by some higher power that's trying to make me suffer.

People have to experience the downside of odds, or else poker wouldn't exist. It's because of this downside that foolish people think they are getting "bad beated" or "cheated", when in reality it's just nature running its course. Live with it.

[DeadBabySoup]

the funny thing is, i usually sharkscope someone after a ridiculous bad beat and they are always negative players. if they were bots or employees, you'd think they'd be hugely profitable. but i've come up with my own conspiracy theory. full tilt's software is written with the odds skewed to favor bad beats. bad beats put players on tilt. when players go on tilt, they play more games at higher stakes. resulting in higher rake and more profit for the site. i don't believe it. but it's a much better theory than just saying it's rigged.

[iceveins0901]

Online poker, at least at Full tilt is beatable, I have done it. Many players have. I highly highly doubt it is rigged, they already make so much money through the Rake, anything to discredit them and make people believe they cheat would cost them rake, eventually cost them more rake than their cheating would benefit, considering everyone would leave the site when it was found out that it actually was rigged.

[Esqueleto]

That's exactly what I am saying it's rigged in a sense that it produces more action, thus more rake.

[C8H10N4O2]

It's these threads that make me glad I'm talking about poker on other sites too. This site seems to single handidly win the award for the highest percentage of posters claiming consipiracy theory.

[iceveins0901]

lol I think anyone starting a "Rigged" post is bound to get 10-15 people that blame the website for them losing, personally I blame the dealers at the casino for all being magicians and stacking the decks so there are more top two pair vs. straights and etc...