every reason to rig

[tp3rd]

Well if there is a big lack of action why do draw outs and bad beats happen probably in the same proportion as online?

that is totally untrue and you know it. I guess I need to ask you if youv'e ever played live at a casino then!!!!!

[marlydog1812]

Yes Im from Southern California. Ive played at Oceans 11, Pechanga, Trump 29, Aqua Caliente, Hollywood Park, Hustler, Bike, The shithole casino off the 15 in Lake Elsinore, and Harrahs outside of Ramona.

I dont know the numbers but you play an incredibly high number of hands online then live per hour. Throw in multi-tabling, your going to experience quite alot of set-back online. Seeing your an inexperienced and losing player equals more then the average player.

You still havent answered why u would invest your time and money in a game that you think iits rigged? That is really sad to think that and still bang your head against the wall when u lose.

[tp3rd]

I play the freerolls at merge network sites. Learned my lesson depositing there. The only site I presently deposit at is Bodog. I also play regularly in the poker rooms at Queen Victoria casino in Elgin Illinois and at Ho Chuck casino in Wisconsin Dells in Baraboo Wisconsin.

[marlydog1812]

Ok I will agree to disagree seeing we are from the same neck of woods. I grew up in Downers Grove, used to play blackjack at Hollywood and at Harrahs in Joliet. Early 90's before poker was getting big....peace.

[steveg78]

I do agree that that would be an incentive, but it just seems to me that it's not worth the risk of getting caught and losing all of the easy money that they have coming in.

[Drywallman3]

Like Marly said, their are many things that come into play when playing on-line. One is multi-tabling. You will see a huge volume of hands an the chances of losing is a tough hand is higher. Also I have said in a different thread you will notice on Merge sites since it is one of the handful of sites still alive for U.S. players that there is a higher volume of more inexperienced players playing, so that being said they are of course going to be playing a lot more hands then say a decent poker player will. So your chances of getting beat is greater. I decent player can look back like hand histories and note players and adapt their play. If you want to be a winning player on-line it takes some leg work or just keep pounding your head against the wall and scream it's rigged.

[CoolJakeB]

I don't think poker sites are rigged and the reason why we see so many big hands and bad beats is because of the amount of hands played. As opposed to the live poker room where you only see about 20 hands an hour, you can see up to 100 hands an hour in an online poker room and even more if you are playing multiple tables. And I don't think that online poker rooms are looking to make a few extra cents per hand because they are already making huge money per rake.

[bmeelneg]

If the sites juiced the deck (theoretically possible but not likely) then which player benefits from this? Wouldn't it be a wash?

I worry more about player collusion then sites rigging the deck. Actually I don't worry about the sites rigging the deck at all. Juicy hands would be evenly distributed amongst all the players. That is unless you think the villain in the 10 cent big blind has an "in" with the company to get his extra share of the juicy hands.

[Hempeezy]

Yeah even though we see so many hands, I still see some of the same beats played out the EXACT same way as in board texture

[scottieb668]

Wow I hit some bad beats but u always want the people calli g when there way behind