Gottimhimmel announces utter hatred for merge

[kiddaa]

Who doesn't like the action?

[abwil2]

yeah but when a site has it "set up" for max action, thats not cool.. I also used to play 5 nights a week and ive seen some rigged stuff live LOL I have seen dealers who can stack a deck. Overall tho in my experience in live vrs online its a HUGE differnce odds wise.take a 100 hand sample live and online and you will see it too. but there in lies the problem. Live you cant sit with a book and take notes on hands played or beats taken, where as online u can go back thru history, so i dont think any one can really come up with a conclusion of real odds vrs online odds. Online just seems to be more rigged for action and or more players hiding behind the screens playing hands they wouldnt live for fear of being humiliated. I dunno im on the fence on it. Ya know some say you can have long cold runs online but not once on merge has the tables turned to where im on days( or weeks) of good runs and no bad beats but you sure can take days and weeks of bad runs and bad beats... i just dunno SMH

[bishking]

I do notice that the bigger the stack more odds you get to win a pot

[gametime74]

I do notice that the bigger the stack more odds you get to win a pot

glad i am not the only one who notice this and you can admit it r not but 75-80% know this as well if not why so many call with rags aginst small stack and hit, just sayin....varaince right..lol

[bigphatmike]

start from scratch i know numerous ppl that can do it and so can you.

[NascarFanSS]

I announce utter hatred for merge and it's ridiculously stacked random number generator to lower percentage hands and players with a large chip stack!

If you agree, voice your opinion below!

If you disagree. . . I don't care! Because i was one of you until i experienced the unbelievable whirlwind of negative variance myself, and still am!

I agree with your OP but still believe it has more to do with the numbers .. when i say numbers I mean the number of strong vs weak players on Merge which imo is like 20% strong / 80% weak. Carbon was loaded with weak players when I first played here 5 years ago and is still loaded with weak players now. For those of you who had never played on a Merge client and came from places like tilt, stars and ub where the numbers were more in the range of 80% strong / 20% weak there is an extremely huge difference in the quality of play. Let's not get mixed up in this good poker vs bad poker like i have been so horrible about because the fact is everyone has a different playing style. Anyone who has played on Stars and Tilt had a specific foreigner they knew to watch out for because of their loose aggressive style of play .. i know i did as well as many others. A lot of weak players couldn't make money on sites like Tilt and Stars because of the amazing amount of strong players in everything from the ring games to the sngs and mtts so they migrated to sites like Carbon where they outnumber the strong players and make money off of each other.lol If you take a look around you will notice the only place on Merge that has any real action from any real players who are there to make money is on the ring games. The differences are to outstanding to even try and compare this network to any other.

The point is that the proof is in the pudding here folks .. The big 3 poker networks that are no longer with us attracted millions of quality players and had the pros to prove it .. Look around and read the forums .. very few experienced and/or quality players will have anything to do with the Merge network and that is why they are loaded with fish who play any 2 cards. The era of being able to play a good solid game of poker with minimal risk of running into bad play is over for now and the new era of playing any 2 cards is in. When you are used to playing 80/20 and have to deal with 20/80 your win to lose ratios get turned completely upside down. Merge has never been in the same league as any of those sites we all miss and it is pointless to expect that from it.

At least we can still play poker and still have a chance at making some cash .. I do thank Merge for providing that!!! lol

I'm going to create a new thread for this topic so that we can get down to business.lol

[steveg78]

I do agree that it seems like bigger stacks win more than they should.

[GottImHimmel]

RAWR, Let's see how many more irrational arguments we can pump out of this!