I completely agree with you, although bots don't bother me nearly as much as the un-randomness of the supposedly random number gens. Like we cannot prove the RNG's are anything but random, we cannot prove that people who aggressively defend the sites are actually on the payroll of a gaming company, but there's something suspicious about people who chastise those who question the legitimacy of
online poker sites. The reason we can't prove RNG's are dishonest or are designed to give the operator the control they need to inject dishonesty into the game, is because it's hard to do. It would take a miracle for gaming authorities to gain access to the source code of one of these sites, let alone stumble upon the line of computer code that rigs an RNG, and that's assuming the operator f***ed up and forgot to remove it. If it wasn't hard to prove we wouldn't see nearly all of them being willing participants, they'd be shut down, and people like bettafold and me wouldn't feel compelled to speak out. We would just play, have a good time, and not feel like we needed to waste our time trying to spread a generally unpopular message. I can only speak for myself when I say this, but I never had doubts or preconceived beliefs about poker
hands being rigged when I first started playing live or online. There's a reason I had these thoughts though, and it's not because I was bitter from a bad beat or two. It's because I saw patterns that were suspicious, and it was highly improbable that they would occur randomly. Once I saw multiple patterns, I felt comfortable making public accusations. If you are someone who refuses to believe it for whatever reason that's fine, but like the creator of this thread, I too think it's important to give people a perspective that isn't just rainbows and butterflies.
