My Global Poker Experience

[Baldy86]

I dont understand this "please dont misunderstand me I am not saying it is rigged" alltitude . if it is rigged it is rigged . speak out . I already said in several threads that to me online poker is 1000% rigged

I dont understand this cautious behaviour .....what are you scared of ? that others will call you a bad player ? meh so be it ....

@OP ....I had 3 royal flushes in 3-4 days some days ago on a poker site

such a nonsense . obviously rigged

 

[bigthereal]

yeah, the software of PS acts very strange sometimes, unbeilevable hands can prevail instantly and better hands lose constantly that doesnt seems to be by chance

 

[Luvepoker]

There are always the conspiracy theory and people who question the game. While I can understand the questions I dont believe there is an issue. Look at players who play in these sites that win consistency. Are the lucky the site likes them or they have a way of knowing whats happening. Nope, I dont think so. Look up the names of some of the players. Many use the same names on all sites. The winning players win on all of the sites. The loosing players most likely are loosing on all of the sites and the players who are in the middle are probably there as well.

If you said the numbers were not perfect I could buy that but it they are off is by a minor % of a point. The thing is if you play poker long enough you will see lots of crazy sh$# happen. While I have seen some wild things happen online I have also played enough live poker to have seen some wild things live as well. Just remember the wsop main even a few years back. This was at the final table bubble of the main event. One player had aces, 2 players had kings and on had tens. At what is probably the biggest moment in these players live we have 4 major hands show up. If this was on global or some other site people would go ballistic and say the site was rigged but here on live TV this hand played out. This happens but we remember it more when it happens to us.

 

[Crash Burn]

This always happens, I see a lot of this from an AK losing to AQ, AJ, KQ

https://prnt.sc/uh865c

 

[Luvepoker]

This always happens, I see a lot of this from an AK losing to AQ, AJ, KQ

https://prnt.sc/uh865c

I understand what you mean but AK is supposed to lose 1 out of every 3 time to AQs.

 

[gon4iypes]

So, I deposited money on Global Poker. I've now been trying to verify my account to withdraw funds for almost a week now with no reply. Is anyone else having issues getting their money? Thanks

yes those thieves owe me $200 that I won fair and square, and then they closed my account. I never could find out why, they ignored all my emails

 

[AndyGamesPoker]

I really don't think that it is rigged. Though I do understand your concern. I play on their and find it pretty profitable compared to other sites. There is a much larger field of bad/recreational players than most other sites which leads to more suck outs in the short term. But in the longer term I think it is much more profitable for the same reason. Because of the softer field of loose players and the fast structure of most of the tournaments there is slightly more variance. Though from my experience if you increase the volume to make up for the variance it is profitable IMO. Also they have the softest ring games I have ever played which I usually include in my volume in order to decrease the variance. Thank for your post though it is very interesting.

 

[fundiver199]

There are always the conspiracy theory and people who question the game. While I can understand the questions I dont believe there is an issue. Look at players who play in these sites that win consistency. Are the lucky the site likes them or they have a way of knowing whats happening. Nope, I dont think so. Look up the names of some of the players. Many use the same names on all sites. The winning players win on all of the sites. The loosing players most likely are loosing on all of the sites and the players who are in the middle are probably there as well.

If you said the numbers were not perfect I could buy that but it they are off is by a minor % of a point. The thing is if you play poker long enough you will see lots of crazy sh$# happen. While I have seen some wild things happen online I have also played enough live poker to have seen some wild things live as well. Just remember the WSOP main even a few years back. This was at the final table bubble of the main event. One player had aces, 2 players had kings and on had tens. At what is probably the biggest moment in these players live we have 4 major hands show up. If this was on global or some other site people would go ballistic and say the site was rigged but here on live TV this hand played out. This happens but we remember it more when it happens to us.

I think, people are focusing on the wrong problem. Its possible, that the RNG of a site like Global Poker is rigged, but its not particularly likely. The real issue is, the site is unregulated and very small, so:

a) Your deposit is not particularly safe
b) The software is most likely pretty bad and might for instance crash at inconvenient times
c) Customer service might be mediocre or slow, if for instance you want to withdraw or have a technical issue
d) They lack resources to ensure a fair game, where other players dont cheat

Global poker is not actually all that "global", since they only accept players from canada and the US. And for canadians a lot of better options are available, since they can play on all the big sites including pokerstars, partypoker, 888 Poker and I presume also the new upcoming GG Poker. So if a canadian player still choose a site like Global Poker and run into problems, he kind of asked for it.

For US players the situation is a little different, since online poker is illegal in the US, so all the available sites are more or less sketchy. But even so some of them have been around for a while, and might be a better choise than this particular one. I would probably pick ACR, ignition or Betonline just based on track record and general reputation.

 

[Bigmthementalist]

ok, i have been playing on there quite a bit recently and i have got to say. I have NEVER seen so many sets of quads in my life......and the amount of runner runner to get there just seems like such a ridiculous amount it's hard to believe sometimes. I have done well in some tournaments and i've played cash and seem some brutal runouts as well. It definitely seems to me that global poker has some of the worst i've seen though. Just to give you an example....I tried to save a bunch of hands in a chat from this 10,000 garaunteed that i ran pretty deep in over this weekend, and ended up turning my laptop off like an idiot but I litereally just joined a free roll an hour ago to see if I could get some kind of example and this one is perfect. There's this guy to my right and he's litereally shoving all in every hand on this free roll and keeps winning with ridiculous hands.....so i'm sitting and waiting and waiting....finally...I pick up aces and of course it comes around to him and he shoves like he previously has the passed 10 hands....and WINS AGAIN against myaces with 2,3 off suit.....my brain hurts even thinking about it but here you go.
https://play.globalpoker.com/hand/60f3c8328b749400015710a7

 

[SomethingChanged]

(I will never read a reply no matter what) Global Poker is for sure rigged. On Trustpilot they have fake bot accounts giving them broken English 5 stars. When you click on the accounts, the accounts have left 5 star reviews on every shady mobile and casino site owned by the Global Poker parent company. That tells you everything you need to know. These are accounts specifically created to only give them 5 stars, no other reviews at all. Once you go check it, there's no unseeing it.

Also, since 2018, my friends and I have pooled our hand data, around 1,500,000 hands. AA is only winning 18% of the time or less for most of us. 18% in showdowns. All our premium hands have their win rates essentially flipped. I have a 12% win rate with KK in a sample size of 600. That's mathematically impossible, variance or not. We are live professional players so this 1,500,000 sample cannot be argued. We came to the conclusion that it is extremely odd that not a single professional Poker player has sponsored the site either.

We all came to the direct conclusion after noticing something really odd. The entire system is designed to essentially gaslight your mind and eventually make you 'rage deposit' after you get cracked by a ridiculous hand. We also noticed we receive premium hands in the Big Blind position at a rate that is around 18x higher than any other position, and of course everyone folds and you 'win' so they can add that to the RNG win rate. Then when it counts, you lose an entire buyin.

We still play on the site, but none of us play on more than 2 tables at once, since 99.99% of your effort on Global Poker needs to be about making folds and cooler dodging. Anytime you see an Ace or a King hit on the river, or a runner runner, your opponent almost ALWAYS has it. In live poker this does happen, but never at the insane 80% frequency it does on Global.

Plus, if they were legit why would they need to hide on the Isle of Mann? Isle of Mann is known as the place to move to dodge gambling laws and pay off officials.

 

[jr0d]

I bought in a few years ago for $20, played very sporadically for a year or two , got up to about $50 then got an offer for $20(or as the call it SC) for only $10...took it, mostly tournament play.

Ran it up to several thousand, cashed out for $1k and went on a bad steak for about a month, got hot then cold got up to $4k then a switched flipped and I lost everything. It got to a point where I saved hands just because it was incredible how bad I was running, eventually cashed out another $1k then went cold and blew up my account.

Not having access to hand histories is sketchy and they could easily be fixed and still keep everyones identity hidden to prevent data mining....

The amount of horrible calls by players with no sharkscope or perfect shark scope graphs only for them to suck out over and over again is sketchy. I also noticed certain players(some Twitch guys as well as the people featured in online ads) constantly get shuffled from table to table in tournaments.

My theory is they don't continuously shuffle the deck like every legit site and there are super users who know what cards are coming(this explains why a 'winning' Global player will call with 9 hi on the bubble of a tournament only to make a straight. Others speculate that they have an algorithm for weaker players to get a hot deck, while good players (who are not part of their clique) get hit with a cold deck.

I keep seeing posts on Reddit and 2+2 saying how soft it is, yet we never hear of any big time pros playing there as well. Also when these concerns are brought up, instantly the person is ridiculed instead of the concerns being addressed.

It is also suspicious that when more and more folks started asking about the bizarre play/bat bears on 2+2 they mixed their forum and hid those post, and started a new thread with mostly positive reviews.