Michael Paler
Legend
Silver Level
So, I’m plinking around Youtube, watching some poker vids, and I come across this series about how poker stars and other sites are “caught cheating”. Unable to resist, I decide to check it out. Wow, talk about conspiracy theories! For one thing, this fellow needs to get a clue. He is a “lone crusader in exposing the corruption of online poker rooms”. No, he is “A lone moron without a clue”.
So, he hand picks certain examples from numerous games (which is suspicious “proof”, isn’t it?). Well, if it’s sooo rampant and organized, he should be able to show dozens of hands in a row of these “bad beats” and hero calls, all in one game! But, no, he has to string together several from several different games.
The funny part is, he talks about things like, how he “knows” he has to lay down his top pair because “there is a possible flush, and I just know someone will get it”. What was your first clue - 3 others still in the hand after all the flop betting? What the heck else could they have? Sure enough, one guy bets a small flush with a made straight into a bigger flush, and “it’s easy to see how they coddle these weak players”. LMAO! He makes a good lay down and doesn’t even know why he did it! He does this over and over, and correctly makes reads on boards, but thinks he’s able to be a Nostradamus and should not be. What a laugh. He didn’t seem to understand the ability of some to make a good read based on action and the cards on the board. And, if he is so certain it’s rigged, then WHY KEEP PLAYING AND DEPOSITING MONEY?!? Doh!
Next he shows some suck outs of horrible all in preflop hands and shows stats on the players who made them. Needless to say, their stats show them as fish, no duh again - call 2 all in preflop shoves with J8 off? You really are a fish. But they suck out to a straight, and “It’s rigged! It’s rigged!” Well, if it really is rigged, and they are always sucking out with horrible calls, WOULD THEY NOT HAVE BETTER STATS? Yes, of course they would!
The following logic also escapes this fellow: How would rigging cash games or non-free MTT’s profit the online site? They only make money on rake, so would they not make more by keeping more people in the game? If one guy gets wiped out, no more rake from him. And as far as free games, so what if they win 13.50? Are they going to cash out thirteen dollars and fifty friggin cents? OF COURSE NOT! It will go back to the site, most likely. So, if you ever thought it might be rigged online, now you know it most likely is not and why. At least, not at the levels we play in. Why cheat for pennies when you could for thousands or more? Just don’t tell that guy. You never want to wise up a sucker, ROFLMAO.
(Goto youtube and search “poker stars is rigged” and look for “magic612” for a good laugh - he even went all out making a logo like theirs, only showing a villain, it’s so funny yet at the same time kind of sad)
So, he hand picks certain examples from numerous games (which is suspicious “proof”, isn’t it?). Well, if it’s sooo rampant and organized, he should be able to show dozens of hands in a row of these “bad beats” and hero calls, all in one game! But, no, he has to string together several from several different games.
The funny part is, he talks about things like, how he “knows” he has to lay down his top pair because “there is a possible flush, and I just know someone will get it”. What was your first clue - 3 others still in the hand after all the flop betting? What the heck else could they have? Sure enough, one guy bets a small flush with a made straight into a bigger flush, and “it’s easy to see how they coddle these weak players”. LMAO! He makes a good lay down and doesn’t even know why he did it! He does this over and over, and correctly makes reads on boards, but thinks he’s able to be a Nostradamus and should not be. What a laugh. He didn’t seem to understand the ability of some to make a good read based on action and the cards on the board. And, if he is so certain it’s rigged, then WHY KEEP PLAYING AND DEPOSITING MONEY?!? Doh!
Next he shows some suck outs of horrible all in preflop hands and shows stats on the players who made them. Needless to say, their stats show them as fish, no duh again - call 2 all in preflop shoves with J8 off? You really are a fish. But they suck out to a straight, and “It’s rigged! It’s rigged!” Well, if it really is rigged, and they are always sucking out with horrible calls, WOULD THEY NOT HAVE BETTER STATS? Yes, of course they would!
The following logic also escapes this fellow: How would rigging cash games or non-free MTT’s profit the online site? They only make money on rake, so would they not make more by keeping more people in the game? If one guy gets wiped out, no more rake from him. And as far as free games, so what if they win 13.50? Are they going to cash out thirteen dollars and fifty friggin cents? OF COURSE NOT! It will go back to the site, most likely. So, if you ever thought it might be rigged online, now you know it most likely is not and why. At least, not at the levels we play in. Why cheat for pennies when you could for thousands or more? Just don’t tell that guy. You never want to wise up a sucker, ROFLMAO.
(Goto youtube and search “poker stars is rigged” and look for “magic612” for a good laugh - he even went all out making a logo like theirs, only showing a villain, it’s so funny yet at the same time kind of sad)