puzzlefish
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Hi everyone,
I am a long time lurker on multiple poker forums and NLHE enthusiast for about 2 years now. I have read my fair share of threads about RNG rigging and bad beats. To that end, I want to propose to you that online poker RNGs are likely not rigged to favour certain players but rather that there are algorithms in play that will favour certain players to win against others depending on player performance relative to others at the table over a number of previous boards.
I would like to demonstrate to you what I mean, but it will require the collection of data from broadcasts that show all players' hole hands. I have done this so far for pokerstars's Sunday Million final table from February 11th. The trouble is that this takes hours to do manually and to format the data to show the required variables:
1. Player chip count before each flop
2. Player position at the table (Dealer, SB, BB, etc.)
3. Player hole cards
4. The board cards (if any)
5. The winning player
6. The winning hole cards (out of all players including those who folded)
7. The change in each player's chip count as a result of the transactions that took place with each deal.
To be clear: I am proposing that the anomalies observed in online poker are not due to card rigging but are based on player performance against other players at the same table (i.e. wins, losses of chips, frequency of bets, etc.)
Can anybody help me out with this? I have good results so far with my first data set but will need a lot more to establish statistical significance. Any programmers/statisticians that can help?
I am a long time lurker on multiple poker forums and NLHE enthusiast for about 2 years now. I have read my fair share of threads about RNG rigging and bad beats. To that end, I want to propose to you that online poker RNGs are likely not rigged to favour certain players but rather that there are algorithms in play that will favour certain players to win against others depending on player performance relative to others at the table over a number of previous boards.
I would like to demonstrate to you what I mean, but it will require the collection of data from broadcasts that show all players' hole hands. I have done this so far for pokerstars's Sunday Million final table from February 11th. The trouble is that this takes hours to do manually and to format the data to show the required variables:
1. Player chip count before each flop
2. Player position at the table (Dealer, SB, BB, etc.)
3. Player hole cards
4. The board cards (if any)
5. The winning player
6. The winning hole cards (out of all players including those who folded)
7. The change in each player's chip count as a result of the transactions that took place with each deal.
To be clear: I am proposing that the anomalies observed in online poker are not due to card rigging but are based on player performance against other players at the same table (i.e. wins, losses of chips, frequency of bets, etc.)
Can anybody help me out with this? I have good results so far with my first data set but will need a lot more to establish statistical significance. Any programmers/statisticians that can help?