Poker rigged.....???

Was playing with a guy today at PS... before tourney started he says...
"man i hate this seat."
he raises to 100 first hand and i say "can't be that bad to raise 5X BB"
he just laughs....he plays almost every hand calling raises ...going all in alot....up and down for about ten minutes until he finally gets knocked
out with straight. i say "must have been the seat" player 1 "lol"
i coe back with one more statement ....."poor guy probaly thinks poker is rigged too" .... sorry it just gave me a good laugh and i thought i would share...he blamed his horribel play on the seat... But my whole aim of this post was to get JD to open it because of the title. Hope it works

LMFAO...figured I'd post so as not to disappoint.

i don't need to read i hate peaple who say online poker is rigged its not rigged!!!!! never will be!!!

You'd have to be a fool to think that everything is on the up and up with online poker. Here's an article from back in 2006 about PartyPoker which at the time was the LARGEST online pokersite with US players still being able to play there. Those of you that still play there...good luck. And if think it's only Partypoker, you're just fooling yourself.


Here's the article:


Posted Saturday, January 21, 2006
Casino Affiliate Frauds - PARTY GAMING - PARTY POKER - Cheating the players and cheating the affiliates
Cheating the players and cheating the affiliates, and having criminals as close partners, this is how Party Poker and Party Gaming were born. There is no possible doubt that the founder of Party Poker and Party Gaming has been closely associated with criminals right from the first day they went into online gambling, and even years before this in the pornographic business. Their illegal and criminal activities haven’t stopped since then.


Ruth Parasol in an older photo
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Party Gaming, Party Poker, Starluck Casino (same crooks)
With these crooks, affiliates started to get cheated in 1997 with Starluck Casino and the cheating hasn’t stopped since then, and is now done on a massive scale.
The game developer who supplied the games for Starluck Casino at the time confirmed many times that the founder of all these companies specially requested that the affiliate program be made to cheat the poor affiliates by stealing most of their money.
The game developer was David Brown from HLI (Handa Lopez) and Casino Soft, and the founder of Starluck Casino, Party Gaming, and Party Poker, is Ruth Parasol.
Another company was using the same games at the time, and they very strongly and persistently complained to the game developer about the fact that the affiliates were getting cheated. It became a major issue because this other company refused to cheat its own affiliates, and requested that the program be changed.
The affiliate program was tracking the sales for the affiliates by using cookies, and the game developer confirmed numerous times that Ruth Parasol specifically asked him to program the cookies to expire in 2 days. This means that no sale would be tracked for the affiliates after 2 days. They were very lucky when they were tracked at all, because most weren’t.
Ruth Parasol was heavily involved with pornography at the time, and she was closely working with criminals and crooks as her close partners. You don’t have criminals as your partners unless you are dishonest yourself. She was also an attorney. Many good reasons not to trust her in the first place.
The game developer confirmed that Ruth Parasol from Starluck Casino didn’t want to change the tracking system because she was happy with the fact that affiliates were getting cheated by not paying them any commission after 2 days.
At the time, many players were staying with the same casino for a year, or longer, so you can imagine how much the affiliates lost when the program was made not to track the sales after 2 days.
After many big fights with the game developer, this other company managed to get him to change the tracking of the sales to a maximum of 15 days. The game developer strongly argued that it wouldn’t be fair to Starluck Casino if another company was paying the affiliates for longer than 15 days or even that long, and he refused to change the tracking of the sales to the requested much longer period.
The game developer confirmed that Starluck Casino requested 2 days, and he complied with Ruth Parasol’s request.
Shortly after, this other company dropped this game developer because he was heavily participating in the massive frauds of the affiliates and refused to stop. No need to tell you that the games were also massively rigged to cheat the players and this is why Starluck Casino loved it, and kept these games for years.
Cheating the players and cheating the affiliates, and having criminals as close partners, this is how Party Poker and Party Gaming were born.
What happened to the game developer David Brown from HLI (Handa Lopez) and Casino Soft, and where is he today? We don’t know, but he could be in jail.
This is the criminal who claimed on his web site right at the top of his main page:
" It's official! We're now the world's LARGEST!!! "
Sounds like Party Poker & Party Gaming today!
He probably meant the largest crook at the time. He was then arrested by the FBI, his private plane was seized, together with his Ferrari, and his two new big houses he just bought with the stolen money, and his bank accounts were seized. He was also involved with tax frauds, and many other criminal offences like laundering money.
His illegal and crooked business was shut down by the authorities, his servers in California were seized, together with the ones he had in Canada, and Australia, and a few other locations.
There is no possible doubt that Starluck Casino and the founder of Party Poker and Party Gaming has been closely associated with criminals right from the first day they went into online gambling, and even years before this in the pornographic business. The illegal and criminal activities of Starluck Casino and Party Gaming, and Party Poker haven’t stopped since then. We are convinced that it’s a lot worse today than ever before, because now it’s done on a massive organized crime scale.
These crooks already start lying when they claim on their web site that 70,000 players are online. Their own staff confirmed to us that this figure was a straight lie, and the figure doesn’t reflect at all the real number of players online.
The more things change, and the more they remain the same. Now they are offering a chance to win a Ferrari. Same trick already used back in 1997 by her game developer for her Starluck Casino. The Ferrari that was used to attract players ended up being stolen by the game developer for his own use. It was then seized by the FBI as proceed of crimes.
Party Poker is claiming on its website that they are:
“ The biggest poker affiliate network “
If this is true, then it means that Party Poker and Party Gaming are the biggest crooks in the world for a poker affiliate program.
The crooks claim on their websites that they paid affiliates more than $19 million since 1997 including Starluck Casino. Their site is updated on a regular basis, and much more often than most. The $19 million since 1997 may sound like a big amount, but here is just one proof that this is a massive scam.
These thieves have operated since 1997 so it’s 8 years now.
If you divide $19 million by 8 years, you only get $2,375,000 per year paid to their affiliates.
If you divide $2,375,000 per year into 12 months, you only get $197,917 paid to affiliates per month.
Last year alone, these crooks claimed having earned hundreds of millions of dollars, and they used these figures to pump and dump their junk shares, and investors already lost billions of dollars in this massive scam. The biggest losses ever in the entire history of online gambling.
If the crooks earned hundreds of millions of dollars in just one year, how do you explain that they only paid an average of $197,917 per month to their affiliates?
They earned many hundreds of millions more since 1997, and they only paid to their affiliates a miserable $19 million in total, for 8 years.
It’s important to note that the majority of online gambling operators get 100% of their business from affiliates. The ones who don’t get 100% are pretty close to this figure, and the goal of every operator is to only get business from affiliates because it’s so easy to cheat them.
Do your own mathematics, and you will see the massive scale of this organized crime fraud. We were not surprised that the founder resigned when taking her company public. Safer to take the money and run, instead of staying around and have to answer questions.
If this was not a massive scam, why did she resigned when she, and her husband, were holding billions of dollars in stocks? Honest people usually rarely get out so fast, and so early, when a company is taken public. The warning sign was there, but gamblers/investors ignored it, and lost billions of dollars already.
How does Party Poker and Party Gaming and Starluck Casino cheat their affiliates?
Very simple, they don’t pay them what they owe them, and the recipe is very basic.
Their software is developed by their Indian programmers, and they are well known for doing anything for money, in a country that is totally corrupted. Everything is corrupted, the government, the police, the courts, the judges, they have a record number of politicians at the highest levels directly involved with murders, rapes, organized crimes, corruptions, rigged elections, and other criminal offences too long to list here.
These programmers and their other staff will do anything for $10 or $20 so you can imagine how easy it is to make them program a rigged affiliate program. Massive and general corruption is the rule, not the exception. It’s the perfect place for Party Poker and Party Gaming and Starluck Casino to have their own developers, and own team.
We have seen many small teams of only 4 to 6 programmers produce pretty good poker software in 6 months or less. With only a dozen persons in the entire team, you can produce very good poker and casino software in less than 12 months, and much faster if the team is bigger or more experienced.
This means that the cost associated with developing poker and casino software is absolutely peanuts, and it can be easily outsourced. Who is going to believe that Party Poker and Party Gaming decided to develop their software in India only to save a few thousand dollars? We are convinced that massive corruption is the primary reason, and the fact that you can sit over there and wait for 20 years before you get your day in court.
There are currently tens of millions of outstanding lawsuits waiting to be heard by the corrupted courts. It takes an average of 15 to 25 years to get a judgment, and it’s virtually impossible to enforce it then, because it’s too late. All the assets have disappeared by that time.
No wonder that these crooks picked this country because it’s the paradise for corruption, and massive dishonesties.
Most local Indian companies in the IT business don’t allow anymore cell phones into their offices to avoid that their own staff use them to steal or leak information to the outside, or take photos of sensitive information.
Most totally block incoming and outgoing e-mails from their own staff, in an effort to try to avoid having their applications and the data stolen.
The majority of these local companies have removed the hard drives from the computers used by their own staff. They have removed the diskette drives, and the CDs as well.
Many have security guards who search incoming and outgoing staff to make sure they don’t steal or bring unauthorized items into the office.
The paradise for Party Poker!


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Here's the article:

Hi all,
That post that has just been submitted is from a website which simply has to be run by an individual with a vendetta. This guy hasn't got a good word to say about any poker room or casino, there is no proof offered or evidence to back anything he says.
This particular website has been discussed at casino affiliate forums and the same conclusion was reached, many affiliates from most of the places this guy is talking about have had no problems at all with cashouts, tracking etc...

Sure there is always going to be some undesirables in the business and there will be some rogue casinos and poker rooms but the reputation gets around and people stay away from them, this guy slates just about everyone out there and then gives permission for anyone to publish his findings anywhere, this guy could end up in a lot of trouble if he isn't careful.

Tony

Hmmmmmm. Sure sounds like he was onto something to me. If you research Parasol's background, you will find she was in the adult entertainment business, and if that isn't, in and of itself, a warning flag to an operation being on the up and up, nothing is.

He cities peoples names and what has happened to them, so all you have to do is check and see if those things did indeed happen.

Like the government seizing the ferrari, houses and a private plane and freezing bankaccounts. If that turns out to be true, than I don't see how you can say his article is a fake.

On some points he may or may not have embellished...I don't know, but it still holds some truth to it and that in itself is scary enough....enough for me to know that online poker is not as innocent as some people would have you believe.

Will I continue to play? Sure. But I know going in that certain circumstances maybe "compromised". I just hope its in my favor.