IT= shit and I always have shit.
manguy,
The penny game was more entertaining last time because everyone was yelling at Steve and I for being donkies and the whole exchange between us and the donks were priceless. Today was a bit more PG. We need to kick it up a notch next time. Those guys weren't very chatty.
But I don't fault you for bringing this up, though I vehemently disagree with the claims. There are flaws in the "rigged" argument when you point the finger at one site like
PokerStars.
1.) It is 12:20AM on an early Tuesday morning and there are almost 49k people sitting at tables at this horrid time, so you're gonna hear more horror stories in quantity about Stars and Party as opposed to UB (estimated 6k right now) and Tribeca (estimate about 4-5k right now). This is a faulty sample when comparing sites and I've seen numbers that come out "correctly."
2.) Paul Magriel had a good statement on ESPN after busting out of the '05 USPC when his QQ lost to A9 that people think they're such a huge favorite when it's only 70/30.
To prove the 70/30 theorem would require such a monstrous sample when you're dealing with a deck that only holds 52 cards. The difference between 70 and 30 in frequencies are not so large as to have a small margin of error. I've always used the argument with baseball. Great hitters always seem to get base hits, but they do it at the same frequency as Ax beats pairs between A and x. The same goes for flushes and straights hitting on the turn and river.
3.) People have the odds to draw so they don't fold. Because of this, it looks like they keep winning. Throw in when they have an overcard or two with their draw and you're talking about near coin flips.
4.) Going back to Ax, bad players don't fold Ax, so the luck factor raises online because the traffic is so high that you're gonna encounter more bad players raising your variance. The counter to this is a bankroll and multi-tabling giving you the max. sample to find results.
5.) This comes back to the human factor. Even good players steam which raises the variance every time a bad player makes a bad call and hits which goes back to traffic.
Your post doesn't seem ignorant and retarded and your questions have merit. These are just why I disspell these questions a lot. People think it's because I've been "lucky," but it's not. These are all valid arguments independent of my personal experiences and history of online poker. I don't take online poker very serious at times, but not for the "rigged" reasons. I have other issues which I might write an article on this week. I like it, but I have my issues with it and how sites run their houses.
EDIT: Minor clarifications.
maybe it's just alittle bad luck.
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