Seems like a lot of work sifting through data to figure out stats or possibly come to the conclusion it could be rigged. If anyone has any doubt if it's rigged, you should probably just back away from online poker. You play so many more hands online in the same time you would play live poker. So the odds of hands being played out a certain way increase you'd think.
You also gave stats for you playing live poker for 4 years. Now did you really keep track of every single live hand played out to come to this conclusion? Seems to me more like an estimated guess then 4 years of you writing down every hand being played to get those stats.
As you might know, or might not... Psychologists split humans into categories. One of the method to characterise an individual is by his main perception channel. Most of the people are Visuals, their main method is Vision. When they think, they use visual images in their brain. Up to 70% of humans in the world are visuals... The next category is Audials, sounds are more important for them than the picture. The next category is Kinestics, or I might be spelling it wrong in English, but these people have to touch and feel... The last categoty is Digitals, they use numbers for thinking. If I'll ask you to remember the sea - what comes first in your mind? The picture of the beach and waves? The sound of water and seaguls? The touch of sand, cool air and warm water on your skin? Or the time and money you've spent there, how many people been around, how many days you've spent there?
My case is the last one, I think with numbers... And Answering your question: I was the one who did the homework, We've played at my brothers restaurant, I bought the table and case with chips, trained the dealer and shared the rake with him. In my case everything was calculated well, maybe it's hard to understand for Audial that Digital thinks this way, but well it's also hard for me to understand the difference between Mozart and Beethoven. But I do know why one brain differs from the other.
And regarding your faith in online poker, just couple of questions:
- What facts say that online poker is rigged?
- What facts say that online poker is legit?
- What F A C T S? Exclude your faith in any virtual reality created by your logic and operate facts only. Do you know the algorhythms used to create online poker room? Do you know a person who created it? Do you know a purpose of online poker room? What do you really know?
Want to know what I see? I see that people are using their fath that they are playing poker to increase serotonin level in their blood. In reality they see pixels that represent poker cards and activity that looks like poker. Poker is the game between humans. Online poker is something with 2 middlemans in it. One middleman is your screen, the other middleman is online casino owner. SO if we'll start a HU match me vs you at some online poker platform, it might look like it's just 2 of us and the cards at the table. But in reality I have no idea if you're the real person, I have no idea that what's going on is a real poker... yet it looks like it is. You have 2 options to trust it or not to trust it. And lets forget about millions of people who play it... the crowd is always the crowd, most of the people are followers, not creators, they can follow any idea cause they aren't creating choices, they simply choose something of what was proposed. It's the same myth as democracy and freedom of speech in USA, where cops are shooting pepper gas in faces of sitting students during occupy wall street... and those elections where authorities state that all votes mater, but in reality only the votes of important people matter. Crowd can simply have faith that something depends on them... Same story with online poker... One obvious fact is that it's money generating machine for it's owners, rest is just virtual reality that you, him or me believe in. BUT we can check the stats and make our own conclusions on what's real and what's not. GL
but I wanted to go to Panama and play live for the first time. Some advice that you can give me thanks
