Shame on you pokerstars!!!

[Normino]

is this event still a thing in 2021?

 

[FastOne]

I am not sure that this is correct place, so if not, mods please move.

Tonight, maybe about 700 people were tricked and made look like fools by pokerstars. What happened. There is a live trivia show run by pokerstars, every night, with a 1000$ prize. There is 10 questions with 3 possible answers to chose from. Tonight topic was Disney characters and first question was something like: From what movie are Darla and Bruce? Don`t remember all offered answers but one of them was Finding Nemo, which is correct one, and two other totally unrelated with question. Over 700 people chose Finding Nemo and only 18 players chose one of other answers, and according to pokerstars only that 18 players hit the correct answer. Till the 9th question 6 players from 18 were eliminated and 9th question was: To infinity and beyond is a favorite quote of which hero. 1. Buzz Lightyear 2. Aladin 3. Baloo and all of remaining 12 players answered 2. Aladdin and according to pokerstars, that was correct answer.

IMO this is obvious proof that they are using bots or insiders in their games, because there is no way that all of 12 remaining players would answer "correct" on 9th question by chance. The real question is, if they are using bots in 1000$ giveaway do they use bots in all other games we are playing?

Missed this thread back when it was written, but I remember, I was there, I played that trivia. No doubt it was rigged.

I took a screenshot of that first question and at the winners. But, the question that the 12 bots got right and it was the wrong answer as well as the first question, took me by surprise and took the screenshot too late. But that was the definite proof it was rigged and the system always had 12 bots winning the trivia no matter what.

The problem was the one making the trivia messed up two of the questions, leaving us no doubt of what was going on.

BTW, I remember that second wrong answered question was about Buzz Lightyear, which is soooo easy to know and yet all 12 people remaining in the trivia got right (wrong answer but the same wrong answer pokerstars had). And of the people who got the same answer as the 12 bots in the first one, none of them made it to the second wrong one, since they clearly didn't know about this topic, failing to answer the first one properly, and all of them lost in the following few questions.

For me, the reason PokerStars rigged it, was so it was impossible for one person to win 1000$ in case nobody else knew every answer to the trivia. And not just one winner, but two or three. So, by having 12 bots in there, not only did PokerStars never paid the whole 1000$, but more importantly, guaranteed to never pay a big amount to one player.

Here are those screenshots:

 

[FastOne]

If anyone has any doubts about this, just think about the following:

This trivia had 10 questions, all of them about animated movies. These 12 bots got two questions wrong, which coincidentally PokerStars had wrong as well, and the same wrong answer. Now, that was the only trivia I saw with a wrong answer from PokerStars (mistake).

And what's more important, these 12 bots, say they were actual people. How could they got those 2 questions wrong when they were so easy, and the remaining 8 questions, some of them hard, got them all correct. Clearly, if they didn't know the answer to those 2 questions, they didn't know a lot about animated movies, because these two movies, Finding Nemo and Toy Story, are actually very famous and very well known. So, how could they got the remaining 8 questions correct if most of them (or all of them) were harder than these two.

 

[leogetz79]

i believe its rigged. like onlinepoker. wont ever put money in it

 

[FastOne]

BTW, this was totally free to enter. So, it's not like Pokerstars did something bad, really. I think, like I stated in my first post, they did it to avoid possibly dealing with one person winning 1000$ or maybe two people winning 500$ each. Having 12 bots means the most a person will win is 1000$/13 = 77$.

But usually there were a lot of winners in these: 80, 90, 100 people. So, it was some money to each person and there were some restrictions to it as well.

So, I write this because I don't think there's any indication there's something bad going on in Pokerstars software based on this trivia. For me it's was just something fun introduced to attrack poker players into playing casino games, eliminating the risk of losing a lot of money (1000$) to one player alone. And they did give close to 1000$ of free money to players everyday for as long as that trivia lasted.

 

[ChickenArise]

This is no more. They havent had it for almost a year now.

 

[Riccoboni]

Would it be possible for the PS to use the profile of someone who is not playing as Bot? Imagine what a bizarre situation !!

 

[KRANKES]

What a strange situation, I sometimes was wondering myself, if they have home players, that know the cards. Calling all in with 72o and hitting a full house on the flop or so. I said myself I am paranoic, but now I have to think about it again...