The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

#1 August 13th, 2020, 6:31 PM

Impossible that you never formulated a 'Conspiracy Theory' about the PokerStars/Rational Group.

I believe that Pokerstars looks for a "type" of player, analyzes their moves and generates a ranking (black box? jajajaja The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

). From this ranking, it generates extra benefits to the player. It may sound stupid (and it should be).

Do you have any theory? Even if it's to laugh, post! The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

#2 August 13th, 2020, 8:36 PM

Its a tool for a mankind to calculate easely the law of karma made by Alien Rulers of Milkyway. Because government doesnt exist!

Good one:>???

#3 August 15th, 2020, 10:25 AM

You're right, PokerStars analyzes players and blacklists them and then closes access to games ...

#4 August 15th, 2020, 2:08 PM

I confirm poker star analyzes your performance and your style of play at the start of the game. if you live up to those expectations. you will have better hands in the middle and end of the game. as well as several other advantages including hitting a lot of the flop. otherwise. you will only be entitled to 27 or 26 style hands and when you are lucky enough to hit a good hand preflop it will be to find yourself facing an opponent who AA or KK.

#5 August 15th, 2020, 3:46 PM

Hi! I don't know if it's a conspiracy theory, but I think the software is flawed. Anyone can check it out. If one receives a pair of 88 for example, it is very, very certain that in the rest of the table there will be another pair, or of jacks, or of 4, or of aces. And there is always a tendency to favor the chip leader. The percentages of probabilities that the software gives before the turn and the river are unreal ... That percentage does not matter, but the chips that the player does matter. The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

here · #6 August 15th, 2020, 3:51 PM

Don't give them ideas! The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

#7 August 15th, 2020, 4:05 PM

Stars does appear to deliver the unlikely at times, but for me ACR is by far the worst. I would say the majority of the time I am dealt a strong hand that aces are out there, eg. small blind on big blind AQs and big blind has AA. I would like to go through hand histories because this keeps happening.

here · #8 August 15th, 2020, 5:09 PM

I played one of my local live games last night, it's pretty good- always at least five or six tables so pretty decent money up top.

I've won before and cashed multiple times, they also run royal flush and straight flush jackpots (I won the latter with the spade wheel once [which I gutshotted on the river to beat a turned full house]) too..

Last night my AA lost to 77 (all-in on flop and he caught the gutshot on turn) and my QQ lost to 36o (all-in pre and slightly unorthodox opponent hits 6 on flop and 3 on turn).

Needless to say, I didn't cash running like that.

However, these things happen in all games of poker, live and online- not just at Stars, ACR or any other platform/table.

So while it might seem that the programming is against you sometimes, it isn't.

It's not personal, it just cold, hard, mathematical probability- which doesn't give a hoot who you are, or what you had preflop.

Sorry! The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

However, in the interest of keeping things on topic with the OP's premise....

Stars have house bots which are entered into every MTT, treated favourably by the RNG programming and one of these bots always places somewhere in the top 15.

Sometimes 1st. Sometimes 15th. Sometimes somewhere in between. Always massively boosting Stars rake.

Completely indistinguishable from any other player because they use enough separate bots to keep the win rates feasible.

As this results in every player, in every MTT, being cheated- needless to say it's a huge scandal when it eventually comes out because some clown fell asleep at his desk while viewing these things working away and someone out of the loop stumbled across.

Massive lawsuit payouts all round.

The End.

#9 August 15th, 2020, 5:15 PM

It is possible, I do believe most site especial PS has an algorithm that deters players that have not deposited.

#10 August 15th, 2020, 5:33 PM

in my opinion i tend to see them giving preference to the non aggressor and small stacks. aggressor all in with aa gets called by j4 off j fills a straight and this is a pre flop example, but it also helps me to guess my way thru wen i think about it

#11 August 15th, 2020, 6:46 PM

I don't tend to believe in conspiracy theories, but I must say I'm thinking by now that PS hates me...

#12 August 15th, 2020, 8:00 PM

It happened to me to think that there is cheating in their algorithms, but after reflection it is just me who played badly. The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

#13 September 4th, 2020, 6:19 PM

there is definitely more to stars than meets the eye

#14 September 4th, 2020, 6:56 PM

Stars nuts - 99

#15 September 4th, 2020, 9:10 PM

I find I get really bad beats after a withdrawal on Pokerstars like a punishment....but who knows

#16 September 4th, 2020, 10:35 PM

I don't think there's any basis for this.I don't see the point of this theory. "it generates extra benefits to the player" why and to whom? Pokerstars just wants to make money like all the big companies on this planet!

#17 September 4th, 2020, 10:47 PM

So many conspiracy theorists. Didn't Ultimate Bet ultimately die or go bankrupt because an insider or programmer had the ability to see his opponents hole cards? I do not believe that top poker sites such as Poker Stars would risk the value of their poker site by cheating players or rigging hands. All it would take is one fired unhappy employee to blow the lid on something like that and poof.....they cease to exist.

#18 September 7th, 2020, 4:55 PM

94EXPOS says it well, though that�s why that Black Box theory is interesting.
In any case, I trust the clean play (maybe The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

).

#19 September 7th, 2020, 5:06 PM

must be true, how else can I justify losing? j/k

#20 September 7th, 2020, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by bugiardops

Impossible that you never formulated a 'Conspiracy Theory' about the PokerStars/Rational Group.

I believe that Pokerstars looks for a "type" of player, analyzes their moves and generates a ranking (black box? jajajaja The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

). From this ranking, it generates extra benefits to the player. It may sound stupid (and it should be).

Do you have any theory? Even if it's to laugh, post! The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

So you should intentionally play like sh1t.... so that you can be classified as that 'type' ... & then the company helps you to win?

Yup... a ridiculous thread for sure

#21 September 11th, 2020, 8:38 AM

Originally Posted by Poker Orifice

So you should intentionally play like sh1t.... so that you can be classified as that 'type' ... & then the company helps you to win?

Yup... a ridiculous thread for sure

lol this is hilarious

#22 September 11th, 2020, 8:52 AM

It's hard to say what. But anything is possible. I also noticed such things that are said above. It seems to me that in any poker room there is such

#23 September 11th, 2020, 8:54 AM

I think you're on to something. But you're not thinking big enough. Not near enough.

PS is part of an intergalatic energy extraction consortium lead by a many-tentacled race of super-hyper visualisation beings.

But you have their motives wrong. They do not care about little bits of green paper called money (or it digital equivalent). They get want they want when a two-outer hits on the river and sends a losing player on crazy tilt. The mental energy expended and the negative vibes generated by the tilted player is harvested by the super-hyper multi-demensional beings as a food source. Plus it makes them laugh. They get a kick out of silly humaans, and they're especially amused by conspiracy theories humaans create.

They let their humaan enablers at PS to gather and keep the high rake, No Rake-Back rake-back program and currency conversion profits. They think humaans are silly and primitive feckers. The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

#24 September 11th, 2020, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by tauri103

I confirm poker star analyzes your performance and your style of play at the start of the game. if you live up to those expectations. you will have better hands in the middle and end of the game. as well as several other advantages including hitting a lot of the flop. otherwise. you will only be entitled to 27 or 26 style hands and when you are lucky enough to hit a good hand preflop it will be to find yourself facing an opponent who AA or KK.

remember guys just like in the live games everything is random, more bad beat happen online because its fast pasted

Originally Posted by lablelarry

I find I get really bad beats after a withdrawal on Pokerstars like a punishment....but who knows

i doubt it because i have watch where players with law buy ins win big, so ill say its decision making all poker hands can be beat dont think AA KK QQ or AK AQ cant be beat our mentality is that we can dominate remember its poker take information at the tables about the players youre playing

here · #25 September 11th, 2020, 12:31 PM

I've defended Stars forever, but I'm over doing that.

Seen terrible play get rewarded there day in, day out for years.

When I think back on all the absolute BS I've seen, again, day in, day out- I think I'm an absolute sucker to have blindly put my faith in and trusted Stars this long.

I'm an idiot!

They're a globalising corporation just like any other and their shareholders and fat cat suits are just as greedy and susceptible to the flaws in human nature as anyone else.

It's not a straight game.

The penny dropped for me last night when I was able to correctly predict the river before it hit.

I lost with KK v KJo (runner-runner jacks), the frequency I've lost in situations like this on Stars is simply RIDICULOUS. It bears no resemblance to what you would expect from the probability.

That wasn't the river I predicted, that came a hand or two later, when it goes all-in preflop...

I have 10,10 and am against 9,9 and 5,5..

There is a nine on the flop, I glance at the players' stacks and realise that I have the nines covered, but not the fives. It's at that moment I predict the five river (the turn hasn't fallen yet) and sure enough, blank turn- river five.

Overpair Vs underpair and losing is one thing but, overpair Vs underpair Vs underpair and losing to both is quite another. Getting two outered twice on the same board, lolol...

Funny thing is, I remember that kind of thing happening to me frequently in the past too.

I understand what cognitive bias means.

I've been telling myself "don't worry it's just hands per hour and cognitive bias" for years.

Not any more.

I withdrew my BR from Stars last night and will only be playing CC freerolls there for fun from now on.

I don't know what is going on at Stars, but I am a withdrawing player who hasn't deposited fluff all in a long time.

Guess they don't like that.

#26 September 11th, 2020, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Tracid

I've defended Stars forever, but I'm over doing that.

Seen terrible play get rewarded there day in, day out for years.

When I think back on all the absolute BS I've seen, again, day in, day out- I think I'm an absolute sucker to have blindly put my faith in and trusted Stars this long.

I'm an idiot!

They're a globalising corporation just like any other and their shareholders and fat cat suits are just as greedy and susceptible to the flaws in human nature as anyone else.

It's not a straight game.

The penny dropped for me last night when I was able to correctly predict the river before it hit.

I lost with KK v KJo (runner-runner jacks), the frequency I've lost in situations like this on Stars is simply RIDICULOUS. It bears no resemblance to what you would expect from the probability.

That wasn't the river I predicted, that came a hand or two later, when it goes all-in preflop...

I have 10,10 and am against 9,9 and 5,5..

There is a nine on the flop, I glance at the players' stacks and realise that I have the nines covered, but not the fives. It's at that moment I predict the five river (the turn hasn't fallen yet) and sure enough, blank turn- river five.

Overpair Vs underpair and losing is one thing but, overpair Vs underpair Vs underpair and losing to both is quite another. Getting two outered twice on the same board, lolol...

Funny thing is, I remember that kind of thing happening to me frequently in the past too.

I understand what cognitive bias means.

I've been telling myself "don't worry it's just hands per hour and cognitive bias" for years.

Not any more.

I withdrew my BR from Stars last night and will only be playing CC freerolls there for fun from now on.

I don't know what is going on at Stars, but I am a withdrawing player who hasn't deposited fluff all in a long time.

Guess they don't like that.

Honestly contemplating doing the same mate. Just can't decide whether to go back to Partypoker or give GGpoker a go

here · #27 September 11th, 2020, 12:48 PM

Originally Posted by IanP304

Honestly contemplating doing the same mate. Just can't decide whether to go back to Partypoker or give GGpoker a go

I'm happy to follow DNegs to GG and intend to do so but I don't think they have mobile apps for their platform yet...

I'll probably just freeroll at Stars and play live until I either get a computer sorted or GG get a mobile app together...

Either way, I'm beyond OVER losing to far-fetched miracles day in, day out.

I understand that in poker AA loses to AK sometimes, but to the same player, every day, for years?

Nahhhhh! The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

People who say things like "it'd come out from a disgruntled employee" make me laugh...

As if the 'boots on the ground' are gonna know what the CEO had for lunch.... LOL..

Yeah, they sit next to each other in the cafeteria and trade sandwiches when their Mum's made them ones they don't like....

Grow up! The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

We're talking criminal conspiracy here ya numpties!

#28 September 11th, 2020, 1:19 PM

Originally Posted by bugiardops

Impossible that you never formulated a 'Conspiracy Theory' about the PokerStars/Rational Group.

I believe that Pokerstars looks for a "type" of player, analyzes their moves and generates a ranking (black box? jajajaja The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

). From this ranking, it generates extra benefits to the player. It may sound stupid (and it should be).

Do you have any theory? Even if it's to laugh, post! The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

Well, let's laugh a little LOL XD ... at Pokerstars one morning, he woke up in the morning and thought: what am I doing today? hahaha i already know i'll take a look at humanity hehehe. saw hundreds of thousands of "normal" people coming and going. it's very quiet, gave that laugh there is there is there is there ... rubbing his hands, hahaha then he started the process he took a sheet of notebook he wrote this sit will be called Bad be .... no no it will deliver the game hahahaha, let's go Create something beyond hahaha wrote Pokerstars. inter galactic obs. ditching the paper he went to a wastebasket in the kitchen and threw it close. very close up it is easy to execute the ball of paper countless times close up and from close range, often missing thousands from a distance. the wrong attempts from afar called them bad beats by normal players hahahaha the up close ones called nice hand by abnormal players and dubbed them 13 hahahhaha. he took a simple 52-card deck from his computer and gave rise to the unimaginable mathematical and skilful theoretical game and invited humanity to experience his newest creation hahahaha. disappeared and in the distance he heard his ...

#29 September 11th, 2020, 1:21 PM

Originally Posted by Tracid

I'm happy to follow DNegs to GG and intend to do so but I don't think they have mobile apps for their platform yet...

I'll probably just freeroll at Stars and play live until I either get a computer sorted or GG get a mobile app together...

Either way, I'm beyond OVER losing to far-fetched miracles day in, day out.

I understand that in poker AA loses to AK sometimes, but to the same player, every day, for years?

Nahhhhh!

People who say things like "it'd come out from a disgruntled employee" make me laugh...

As if the 'boots on the ground' are gonna know what the CEO had for lunch.... LOL..

Yeah, they sit next to each other in the cafeteria and trade sandwiches when their Mum's made them ones they don't like....

Grow up!

We're talking criminal conspiracy here ya numpties!

GG poker do have a mobile app, quite good one at that tbf. At least they do on Android so I would assume they do for iPhone as well.

#30 September 11th, 2020, 1:43 PM

I play on all of the major sites, now with the exception of Party Poker as they decided not to renew their license in Panama as of Aug 31 2020. Verification of my documents is slow but I digress. That is a story for another time.

What we are all experiencing is the nature of this game. You are never an astronomical favorite in this game where you are constantly pushing small edges. 80% means the opponent has a 1 in 5 chance of winning. 90% equates to a 1 in 10 for villain, 95% is a 1in 20 shot.

Its the same across all sites. Wherever you spend more time you are going to suffer more strange things. Try smaller fields in smaller tournaments. The more hands you play the more you are going to brush up against the odds.

I am more concerned that someone is using a virtual machine to play GTO against me than I am of the site cheating. This is just going to get worse going forward. If the site is not preventing this, there is no future in playing there. .

#31 September 11th, 2020, 1:49 PM

Originally Posted by bugiardops

Impossible that you never formulated a 'Conspiracy Theory' about the PokerStars/Rational Group.

I believe that Pokerstars looks for a "type" of player, analyzes their moves and generates a ranking (black box? jajajaja The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

). From this ranking, it generates extra benefits to the player. It may sound stupid (and it should be).

Do you have any theory? Even if it's to laugh, post! The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

Why do they need it?

#32 September 11th, 2020, 2:12 PM

If you keep thinking about conspiracy theories that favor a certain type of player you will go crazy and will not pay attention to your own game and your mistakes.

here · #33 September 11th, 2020, 8:23 PM

Mhmmm...

... and losing in these 80% & 90% spots over and over and over again, day in, day out...

... also totally normal! The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

Flopping the nut straight and losing to runner-runner FH, yup! Supposed to happen regularly!

Flopping a set of aces and QTo calling all-in with queen-high and making runner-runner straight...

... it's faaaar more likely that that will happen than that will not happen...

Mhmmm!

Sureeee!

All normal here, honest! The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

Cracks me up that I spent the last four or five years as one of these suckers arguing for the legitimacy and that is was all hands-per-hour, variance and cognitive bias... PMSL. The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

I'm not pretending I know how or where the game is skewed, just that it is skewed.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but as someone who has spent my entire time since playing online defending these sites, nobody can tell me I haven't witnessed what I have witnessed.

Two and three outers at Stars are magic, as is their river.

Oh and on that note, I've noticed lag spikes before the magical rivers hit.

All normal, *honest*, nothing to see here....

The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

#34 September 11th, 2020, 9:58 PM

If you believe you are not getting a fair go you are thinking negatively, and those thoughts inhibit your play.
It is stupidity to continue playing poker on Stars with a mind full of negativity.
Try another site or find another activity.

#35 September 11th, 2020, 10:15 PM

hi there

as a contribution to the theory has anyone noted that PS works in cycles of days?
One day you do wonderful and so on for a couple of days then you get 3/4 marvelous days

rgds

#36 September 11th, 2020, 10:53 PM

The wacky baccy must be good on the Stars where smoke. " Planet Wow Wonderful", molokheia. The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

#37 September 11th, 2020, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by tagece

I don't tend to believe in conspiracy theories, but I must say I'm thinking by now that PS hates me...

i think exactly opposite. i tend to believe in conspiracy theories (ok, not to the limit to believe in flat earth) but i don't believe in poker conspiracy.

#38 September 12th, 2020, 1:33 AM

is seriously? I can not believe that theory hahaha if there will be several in relation to those who do not think the way to manage these rooms or because of the multiple defeats that they have

#39 September 12th, 2020, 4:14 AM

Originally Posted by Tracid

I've defended Stars forever, but I'm over doing that.

Seen terrible play get rewarded there day in, day out for years.

When I think back on all the absolute BS I've seen, again, day in, day out- I think I'm an absolute sucker to have blindly put my faith in and trusted Stars this long.

I'm an idiot!

They're a globalising corporation just like any other and their shareholders and fat cat suits are just as greedy and susceptible to the flaws in human nature as anyone else.

It's not a straight game.

The penny dropped for me last night when I was able to correctly predict the river before it hit.

I lost with KK v KJo (runner-runner jacks), the frequency I've lost in situations like this on Stars is simply RIDICULOUS. It bears no resemblance to what you would expect from the probability.

That wasn't the river I predicted, that came a hand or two later, when it goes all-in preflop...

I have 10,10 and am against 9,9 and 5,5..

There is a nine on the flop, I glance at the players' stacks and realise that I have the nines covered, but not the fives. It's at that moment I predict the five river (the turn hasn't fallen yet) and sure enough, blank turn- river five.

Overpair Vs underpair and losing is one thing but, overpair Vs underpair Vs underpair and losing to both is quite another. Getting two outered twice on the same board, lolol...

Funny thing is, I remember that kind of thing happening to me frequently in the past too.

I understand what cognitive bias means.

I've been telling myself "don't worry it's just hands per hour and cognitive bias" for years.

Not any more.

I withdrew my BR from Stars last night and will only be playing CC freerolls there for fun from now on.

I don't know what is going on at Stars, but I am a withdrawing player who hasn't deposited fluff all in a long time.

Guess they don't like that.

Thanks for the entertainment. The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

I'm just going to keep on being one of those who blindly puts faith in the site.

I've been 1-outtered on more than one occasion. Yup imagine flopped quads losing to a rivered straight flush!
This past weekend I got it in great while deep'ish' in a tournament KK vs A9s (A9s?? WTF dude!! really? .... it was a bit of ICM suicide on their part imo at the time... but this is still a good thing for me... I mean it's not a satty & I need to acquire chips when I can). I turn K & river another K for quads!! Yes!!!!! (wonder if he quit Stars that day?).

I personally don't understand the thinking behind quitting a site due to variance and I also don't understand how players would think the site is rewarding one player over another in what... a $10 tournament? Why would they do that?

Poker is poker. It is normal. If the crazy sh1t didn't happen, I'd be more concerned tbh.

One thing I don't hear is.. HSMTT players quitting sites because it's rigged. Never. Not even once. I haven't even heard of any regulars quitting a site because it's rigged. Not even one.

Depending upon what game(s) you're playing, it might actually be better to play on other sites aside from Stars. (rake is high on Stars in some games & close to zero rewards program). BUT they do have the best series on there, the largest number of players, the biggest game selection, the best software, etc. etc. etc. Maybe not for long (I hope) as they finally have some competition. (PP & GG)

#40 September 12th, 2020, 1:01 PM

Such theories appear in players after major losses and moves on the river. Don't try to explain the actions of others. Inexplicable things happen sooner or later without any theory of conspiracy.

#41 September 12th, 2020, 3:34 PM

Everything is arranged. They have their conspiratorial bunker in the center of the flat earth.

#42 September 12th, 2020, 4:34 PM

Originally Posted by MauroMMMM

Hi! I don't know if it's a conspiracy theory, but I think the software is flawed. Anyone can check it out. If one receives a pair of 88 for example, it is very, very certain that in the rest of the table there will be another pair, or of jacks, or of 4, or of aces. And there is always a tendency to favor the chip leader. The percentages of probabilities that the software gives before the turn and the river are unreal ... That percentage does not matter, but the chips that the player does matter. The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

I have the same observation in almost all poker rooms.

It's just too often that probabilities of events happening are unreal. A different kind of math seems to be at work in online poker than in live poker.

Still, we play on right?

here · #43 September 13th, 2020, 5:36 PM

Originally Posted by IanP304

GG poker do have a mobile app, quite good one at that tbf. At least they do on Android so I would assume they do for iPhone as well.

Struggling to find the app in playstore mate, I'm on Android... Any idea what I'm doing wrong? The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

Gonna go check out their website now, maybe it's browser based or summink...

~EDiT:- found the DL there.. The PokerStars Conspiracy Theory

#44 September 13th, 2020, 5:39 PM

Originally Posted by Tracid

Struggling to find the app in playstore mate, I'm on Android... Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Gonna go check out their website now, maybe it's browser based or summink...

Thinking about it, I may have downloaded the android app from their website not the play store. It is not browser based but I guess their app just isn't on the play store yet.

here · #45 September 13th, 2020, 6:03 PM

Originally Posted by IanP304

Thinking about it, I may have downloaded the android app from their website not the play store. It is not browser based but I guess their app just isn't on the play store yet.

Yup, got app from site- ty

#46 September 13th, 2020, 7:52 PM

They analyze you, they make you win a big prize and when you win it, they block your account, of course multi-account fraud, they associate you with false accounts that you have never seen in your life and after a while they make you open an account from scratch and without funds haha

#47 September 13th, 2020, 8:05 PM

you win only when the program desires that you can do it.
it is the same in all poker servers

#48 September 13th, 2020, 9:13 PM

I do not see any benefit for them, which means there is no conspiracy.

#49 September 13th, 2020, 10:09 PM

Why would Pokerstars rig the software ? They are a casino site.

Think about it, they earn millions of dollars in rake in poker and casino games.

They don't need to cheat, Pokerstars is a money machine for the owners due to the high traffic!

So no , its not rigged, bad runs happens to us all.

However what they do is to analyze you as a player to find out which reward system you belong (chests and all that).

#50 September 23rd, 2020, 2:28 PM

Originally Posted by albosaltenio

you win only when the program desires that you can do it.
it is the same in all poker servers

No, here I do not agree with you. Patience, endurance, and distance play.

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