It's definitely not entirely random as it should be
I havn't played online for years but I remember clearly being able to tell it's not random
on 6+ seat games it's quite easy to tell when almost every hand someone has like 1 pair, someone has 2 pair, someone has trips, and someone hits a straight or full house, which wouldn't happen half as much in a casino
Not to mention when you have those ultimate donks that will re-raise you all in with sweet f all, and a bad 2 cards themselves, and some how come out on top with the turn and river dropping them the ultimate donking cards
Though that's not even what makes it most obvious in a sense, it's when you play heads up it is ridiculously obvious when you are getting like q8 every other hand, hitting the 8, but the ''opponent'' has K8 , which this type of thing happens so much, when in reality, purely random cards means in heads up, you could be the winner or the leading hand with just a J high, or even 10 high...... Think about it and if you've played in a casino before you should know that in many hands in heads up you both don't hit anything.. Now compare this to your online experience and notice it's entirely not random
Another thing to realise is that if you're actually a solid player, and you don't put any chips in past the flop if you're not going to win, the poker programs and the people that run and own them do not like this type of player as you won't throw chips around so much and winlosewinlosewinloselosewinlose as much as a mediocre player would, so you will probably get donked on and get messed with by the algorithm , how ever if you're someone who throws chips around a lot, you will be that donk that get's that magic luck, as the poker program and the people who design them know you will throw those chips back around, and likely lose, and throw more chips around like a donkey, and get that donkey luck, and throw them back, and lose them back quick enough, though of course if you're a solid player who will mainly just win win win and play solid and not throw chips at losing hands, the owners of these sites won't like you very much.... Think about it and realise this
I didn't even play online poker for very long to notice and realise this.. I could have been a great player, but was quite quickly put off from playing poker by how it works in online poker, which for sure isn't entirely random as it should be
Why do you think you'll get donked by someone re-raising with sweet f all so much? turn and river giving them a straight after they played like a donkey without a head? Yh, seems legit
If you're actually intelligent this all should be obvious, and you would know it's not entirely random as you would recognize the patterns and the nonsense quickly enough..
