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Old 06-25-2009
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Online poker is on computers, therefore there has to be an algorithm (or more than one) to randomize the cards. It will never seem as random and "fair" as live poker with a professional dealer, because it still has to be contained within the rules of a logical program. This makes it a little different than live poker maybe, but it's not rigged.

Your arguments are that big stacks are getting big hands against each other to make big pots for big rake. It's bound to happen occasionally, and I'm sure it happens in live games. The difference is the number of hands being played at any given time. In a live game, you can only sit at one table and play one game, so you have no idea what situations are happening at other tables, other casinos, other cities. If you look at the hand # each time it's dealt on an online room, you'll see that between every hand played at your one table, there have probably been tens of thousands of hands played on the entire site just in the time it took for you to play one hand.

I'm also willing to bet that if you went and recorded every hand at every table at a bunch of casinos for live games, getting the exact same amount of data recorded as you did online (which would probably take a lifetime), then you would get very similar results.

Talk to any online pro who either makes a living off of online poker, or is just a consistent winning player (there are a few on this forum). They will set the record straight.
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