There are a couple of ways to look at it. It would be foolish not to think that the poker sites have a suped-up random number generator to make bad beats and big hands happen more often than in real life. Those are the hands that drive up the rake. I also think, on the flip side, that you see many times more hands online than live, so the number of these types of hands may be inflated because of the volume.

In my experience, though, there are way more 1-outers online than in live play. It does seem quite obvious.