poker sites cheating?

[grimReaper]

It very much seems that people who cry PokerStars is rigged or FTP is rigged are usually people who simple cannot handle the ups and downs of poker. Since these sites are online and it's much more difficult to "prove" that it's not rigged since there is nothing tangible in front of them, claiming they are rigged is simply easier than accepting that they have experienced variance, or even that they need to work on their game.

True. Many people can't handle the fact that they just encountered a 10% suckout, and always try to find some sort of justification. This isn't just true about poker, but also about life - this is human nature - people will find always try to find justification for events. Even I think sometimes, "FTP doesn't want me to win" (I basically finished on or virtually on the bubble 3 out of 4 times in Omaha 8 MiniTops Super satellite where it's $2.50 to $22, twice were nasty bad beats and my ROI is really suffering without those wins ).

Our brains simply aren't evolved to detect randomness to high precision. Predicting random events w/ high precision wasn't/isn't critical to our survival, e.g primitive man saw the clouds get dark and guessed it would rain w/ 70% probability, but if there's 5% probability to rain when the sun's out and it rains on a sunny day, he would be like "WTF The clouds are rigged!" Or maybe early man was very risk averse to randomness that occurred in nature, i.e it's not* safe to walk within 200 yards of a lion given the benefits are xyz etc. I admit, I expressed this paragraph pretty poorly, but I gotta get back to studying.

[C8H10N4O2]

he would be like "WTF The clouds are rigged!"

Perhaps my favorite quote on this forum so far. I lol'ed pretty hard.

[travz21]

Someone finally writes something that might help the fish understand how stupid they sound when they claim online poker is rigged. I'm using that quote in every single rigged thread on this forum now.

[keanosdog]

this was so obviously rigged


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGtOejgJ2T0&feature=related"]YouTube- Aussie Million 2009 Cash Game Part 1 4/4[/ame]


btw wait for laaks comment at the end of the hand. funny.

[grimReaper]

Perhaps my favorite quote on this forum so far. I lol'ed pretty hard.

Someone finally writes something that might help the fish understand how stupid they sound when they claim online poker is rigged. I'm using that quote in every single rigged thread on this forum now.

Thanks. I like the signature dew. When writing it, I didn't know that line was that brilliant lol.

this was so obviously rigged
YouTube- Aussie Million 2009 Cash Game Part 1 4/4
btw wait for laaks comment at the end of the hand. funny.

That guy is more of magician than a poker player.

[Sick_pro]

Perhaps my favorite quote on this forum so far. I lol'ed pretty hard.

He should be a comedian

[EliminateU]

I was questioned by PokerStars a while back about a person I regularly played with at the tables. I wasn't aware that the MIT blackjack team played online either. But anyway, I had to explain my relationship with the other person to PokerStars and I told them they were welcomed to check out all hands we played against each other, because if anything, we played harder against each other than anyone else. I'm not sure if they ever checked it out or anything, but there wasn't any collusion going on for them to get upset about. We did play from the same college, so they might have picked up on a similar location and the two same names playing at the tables with each other a lot.

So you admit you are a cheater then.

[EliminateU]

Because you have rakeback pros instead of -2BB/100 fish regs.

With the Pstars rewards program I'm sure they have "rakeback" pros too.