cant trust pokerstars..100/200
 

hand like always.

100/200 i have AKo in the SB and its 3-handed. button raises, i 3-bet, BB caps, button calls.

flop comes KT6 r and i bet, BB calls, button raises, i 3bet, BB folds and button caps.

turn is 9 making a flushdr. i bet and get raised and i call

river is the 7 making a 3-flush.

you guessed it. i lose to AcJc for the flush. this just doesn't make sense and this is NOT an isolated example.

Re: cant trust pokerstars..100/200
 

The Button's play is LAG, but what do you expect in a 3-handed 100/200 game?

I don't see any signs of a conspiracy here. If you're uncomfortable, then don't play online for these stakes.

Re: cant trust pokerstars..100/200
 

Everyone who plays at this level at this site plays that way. give them 33 and they play like it's AA. He was trying to push you off a possible low pocket and he was banging his 4 outer that turned into a 12 and got lucky, nothing more then that....... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

Re: cant trust pokerstars..100/200
 

i must admit i was tilting when i posted this, but to say that this is anyway near decent play is absurd as well.

Re: cant trust pokerstars..100/200
 

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Everyone who plays at this level at this site plays that way. give them 33 and they play like it's AA. He was trying to push you off a possible low pocket and he was banging his 4 outer that turned into a 12 and got lucky, nothing more then that.......

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certainly not everyone plays like that. i was a bad (tilt) statement on my part when i said i cant trust pokerstars, but plays like this are so -ev its criminal.

again, even if its 3-handed there's no way you can justify his play imo.

Re: cant trust pokerstars..100/200
 

i hope youre not tilting over this one hand.

Re: cant trust pokerstars..100/200
 

no. when i said that this was not an isolated example i meant that. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

btw..this thread is utterly useless (mostly my fault). so it's better that it gets buried under a lot of posts.

Re: cant trust pokerstars..100/200
 

Never Lose and the Count play like the style you describe, so does PieJay. They are all longterm winners at that game....

Re: cant trust pokerstars..100/200
 

no friggin way piejay or count would play that way. where do you base that on? and neverlose just started playing the game for about a month (so hard to say hes a long term winner)

Re: cant trust pokerstars..100/200
 

I must agree with part of what your saying. I certainly don't know about this particular hand, however I believe that 100/200 stars is considered to have the biggest threat of collusion. Based upon what I have read on this forum, other forums, and just from using some common sense. People who collude effectively don't waste their time at .5/1 (not for long at least), naturally the higher limits make collusion more worthwhile.

At the same time I am not sure about stars, but at party you can email the support witht he names of people you think might be colluding. They emaield me back in about 2 days with a whole list of things they investigated about the players. I was actually impressed [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Of course they might have been lying about actually investigating.. who knows